Record-low freezing temperatures have been taking over much of North America recently, and if you live just about anywhere in the eastern half of the U.S., you’re well aware of this.

So does that mean global climate change isn’t real? President Donald Trump shared his thoughts on the subject Thursday night on Twitter.

[tweet https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/946531657229701120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%5D

But according to experts, 2017 is still on track to be one of the hottest years recorded globally.

Why? Because weather and climate change are not the same thing, which IndyCar Series driver J.R. Hildebrand pointed out while firing off a tweet in response to the president.

[tweet https://twitter.com/JRHildebrand/status/946577715368521728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%5D

Here is the tweet Hildebrand linked to in his response.

[tweet https://twitter.com/blkahn/status/946432061845405696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%5D

More on this from USA TODAY:

But there’s a big difference between weather and climate, scientists say: Weather happens in the short term, while global climate systems influence weather over longer time scales. Daily or weekly weather patterns “say nothing about longer term climate change,” said J. Marshall Shepherd, director of the atmospheric sciences program at the University of Georgia and a former president of the American Meteorological Society.

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