what's the difference between climate change and global warming?

Answer 1

climate change is a natural effect. Global Warming is caused by man.

Answer 2

Climate change is certain regions of the world experiencing new and strange climates, such as a cold climate having unusually long summers or winters. Global Warming is sort of a blanket term that gets tossed around a lot, and used in ways it shouldn't be. It's just a theory, that the world is getting warmer due to the atmosphere deteriorating. But there is also a theory that says we're still in the ice age we thought ended millions of years ago and we're in a warming stage of that age. Both are founded on factual evidence but it will take time before either can be proven.

Answer 3

Global warming refers to the rate at which the atmosphere and the world are heating up. Climate change refers to the changes in the climate that are caused by global warming.

Answer 4

Basically One is consequence of the other, Climate change is part of the effects of Global warming, but find details of each here:

Global Warming

The predicted effects of global warming numerous for the environment and for human life. The main effect is an increasing global average temperature. From this flow a variety of resulting effects, which are rising sea levels, altered patterns of agriculture, increased extreme weather events, and the expansion of the range of tropical diseases. In some cases, the effects may already be occurring, although it is generally difficult to attribute specific natural phenomena to long-term global warming.

Climate change:

Climate change refers to the variation in the Earth's global climate or regional climates over time. It describes changes in the variability or average state of the atmosphere - or average weather - over time scales ranging from decades to millions of years. These changes may come from internal processes, be driven by external forces or, most recently, be caused by human activities.

Answer 5

Global Warming

The predicted effects of global warming numerous for the environment and for human life. The main effect is an increasing global average temperature. From this flow a variety of resulting effects, which are rising sea levels, altered patterns of agriculture, increased extreme weather events, and the expansion of the range of tropical diseases. In some cases, the effects may already be occurring, although it is generally difficult to attribute specific natural phenomena to long-term global warming.

Climate change:

Climate change refers to the variation in the Earth's global climate or regional climates over time. It describes changes in the variability or average state of the atmosphere - or average weather - over time scales ranging from decades to millions of years. These changes may come from internal processes, be driven by external forces or, most recently, be caused by human activities.

Answer 6

Climate change is the effect of global warming.
Climate = the long term weather of a region. ie Desert (hot/dry), tropical rainforest (warm/wet).
Global warming = process in which the worldwide average temperatures increase, usually due to an increase of carbon based gasses in the atmosphere trapping heat in. Has happened before (there used to be dinosaurs in antartica).

But in our case, it is not just the increase of carbon gasses that is causing it. It is also that we replaced plants with cement, which reflects more heat back to the air to warm it faster. Plants absorb heat and cool the air. So we are hitting it from both ends.

So when the world wide average temperature increases, the regional climates will change. The part that gets strage is that many places will actually get COLDER. This is because of a change in the ocean curents. So warm water from the equator will no longer go near Europe, and England is predicted to get colder, but Texas will get hotter. So overall there will be CHANGES but just becasue the globe is warming, it doesn't mean your home region will warm. It will just change from normal.

Answer 7

Global warming is created by the green houses affect and climate change is natural change in the weather.

Answer 8

Global warming is a subset of and a specific form of climate change.

Answer 9

There is no such thing as global warming. It is all a scam. The Earth is an ever changing climate. To say things like it is warming is scare tatics by scientists to fund their pet projects.
Who is to say how large a hole in the ozone has ever gotten as we have only recently been able to see it ourselves.

Answer 10

Global Warming has been happening since the ice age