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Climate variability differs from climate change in that variability

  • A.refers to fluctuations about a fixed mean
  • B.refers to a long term shift in the mean value
  • C.is always caused by some human activity
  • D.occurs only in the tropics and nowhere else

Answer: A

Correct answer: refers to fluctuations about a fixed mean

Variability is the natural swing of the system around its mean state - a warm year, a cold decade, an El Nino - and it occurs whether or not anything is forcing the climate. Change is a shift in the mean itself. Both are present in any real record, which is why separating them is the whole business of detection.

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