Climate variability and climate change what's the difference?

Climate variability refers to shorter term (daily, seasonal, annual, inter-annual, several years)
variations in climate, including the fluctuations associated with El Nio (dry) or La Nia (wet)
events.
Climate change refers to long-term (decades or longer) trends in climate averages such as the
global warming that has been observed over the past century, and long-term changes in
variability (e.g. in the frequency, severity and duration of extreme events).
The climate system is complex and chaotic we will never have 100% accurate climate
forecasts.
The weather we experience is influenced by many weather and climate drivers and the ways that
these drivers interact are not fully predictable.

Causes and effect of climate change and climate variation

The current climate change is linked mostly to greenhouse gas emissions resulting from human
activities. These emissions of anthropogenic origin are by themselves responsible for more than
3/4 of the carbon dioxide (CO2). The consumption of fossil fuels (energy production, fuel for
vehicles, home heating, industry) is by far the most incriminating factor. But we should not
forget that changes in land use, including deforestation, occupy second place in term of
responsibility for the worldwide increase in greenhouse gas emissions (17% of global
emissions).
Global warming introduces an additional factor of inequality and disparity between the different
geographical regions of the planet. The populations of the world's poorest countries are more
vulnerable when faced with the effects of climate change even though they are less responsible
for it. The developing countries are not able to protect themselves against the impact of this
phenomenon nor adjust to it. Climate change increases the precarious situation of the poorest
populations (food security, access to health care, water and energy, housing...), widening even
further the socio-economic divide between the North and the South.
Because of their location, their low incomes, the insufficiency of their resources and institutional
capacities, and because they mostly count on climate dependent sectors like agriculture,
populations of the poorest countries are the first victims of current and future climatic changes.