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© Thomson Reuters 2023.New Zealand's southern waters experiencing marine heatwave
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1glenn
Call a spade a spade; it is Global Warming, not climate change.
If half the Earth were cooling, while the other half were warming, then the term climate change would be appropriate. That is not what is happening. Everywhere on Earth is seeing annual temperature increases.
The term Global Warming may be scary to use, but it is accurate.
Eastman
again.
climate change.
change enviroment for climate change.
you wrote all time about same topic-what enviroment???
Strangerland
Except you didn't call a spade a spade, it's climate change. It's why we see stronger storms and weather events, not just heating. That's why the scientists, who study this stuff, switched from using the term global warming to climate change.
Strangerland
That's not my understanding. We used to hear the term Anthropogenic Global Warming (APG) from scientists. But some would doubt the "warming" bit if their local temperatures got colder, and so I think it was the not-so-scientific who introduced the term Climate Change.
Nope. The term first was coined by a scientist in 1975:
Link: https://gpm.nasa.gov/education/articles/whats-name-global-warming-vs-climate-change
The National Academies are were pushing the term in 2005:
An organization of scientists.
Link: https://www.preventionweb.net/files/2276_climatechangefinal.pdf
And why they aren't interchangeable:
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/whats-difference-between-global-warming-and-climate-change
kaimycahl
Why not Environmental Change!!
albaleo
That's not my understanding. We used to hear the term Anthropogenic Global Warming (APG) from scientists. But some would doubt the "warming" bit if their local temperatures got colder, and so I think it was the not-so-scientific who introduced the term Climate Change.
The climate is always changing. But the man-made contribution is what is of concern. I prefer the term global warming to climate change, but I think APG is better still.
albaleo
@Strangerland,
I don't strongly disagree on this, and I agree they aren't interchangeable. I can understand that climate change is a result of global warming, and it is those changes that will affect us. But climate change can result from other factors. Your last link included this:
Climate change, on the other hand, can mean human-caused changes or natural ones, such as ice ages.
I think it is the human-caused changes that are of concern. And those are mainly from global warming caused by human activity - Anthropogenic (man-made) Global Warming ( AGW - sorry about my earlier errors with the initials). As many will say, the climate is always changing. But is it not the warming caused by human activity that is the focus of current concerns?