Climate vs. Weather

Sci-fi author and climate change denialist Michael Crichton in coversation with contrarian journalist John Stossel:

If somebody said, 'John, I've got a nice weather forecast for you for next year, this time next year,' you wouldn't [believe them]. How about this time a hundred years from now? I mean, are you going to give that any credence at all? No.

Physicist and Oceanographer Stefan Rahmstorf responding to a post on RealClimate.org (See: "Short and simple arguments for why climate can be predicted"):

Predicting climate is like predicting that the boiling water in the pot has a temperature of 100 ºC at sea level, but only 90 ºC at a particular altitude in the mountains. Predicting weather is like trying to predict where the next bubble will rise in the boiling pot.

Anonymous:

Climate is what you expect. Weather is what you get.