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Nicole Ardoin is an associate professor in the Graduate School of Education; the Sykes Family Director of the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources; the Emmett Family Faculty Scholar in the School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences; and a senior fellow of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. Her talk was presented as part of an October 6, 2019, event at Stanford University: Accelerating Climate Solutions for a World that Works. Please see http://climatesolutions.stanford.edu for more information.
In This Story: Climate
Climate is the long-term average of weather, typically averaged over a period of 30 years. More rigorously, it is the mean and variability of meteorological variables over a time spanning from months to millions of years.