Is environmental change the same as global warming.?

Question

a discovery documentary a few years ago mentioned that while most areas would warm up a bit, some, like death valley, the Sahara, Arabia... etc, would actually drop in temp. any one experience such differences?

Answer 1

Environmental / Climate Change is the way that the world's climate is changing, Global Warming is one of the things that's causing it to change.

Whilst the two things are directly linked to each other they're not the same things.

Climate Change would include the warming up of the world, changes to weather patterns, the rising of sea levels, desetification, the extinction of some species, melting of the ice-caps and permafrost etc.

When talking about Global Warming many people are actually referring to what could better be described as the Greenhouse Effect - man's effect on the climate. Global warming is more wide ranging as it takes into account the natural warming of the earth - the earth goes through cycles, many thousands of years in length, of natural warming and cooling.

Climate change leads to a shift in weather patterns with the result that some areas become drier, some become wetter, some will experience less tornados whilst others have more, some will be cloudier, some will be sunnier etc. Whilst most places will warm up there are some that will cool down.

Answer 2

Not quite. Global warming can result in Environmental change... But WE are the ones changing the Environment- that's resulting in Global warming.

Answer 3

Environmental change, global warming and global climate change are all pretty much terms that are interchangeable.
Same as green house gases and ozone depletion gases.