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2007-12-14 12:05:46 · 9 answers · asked by M B 1 in Environment Global Warming

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It's all in the words of dodging responsibility
http://www.desmogblog.com/on-twisting-words-and-dodging-responsibility

2007-12-14 12:33:58 · answer #1 · answered by Author Unknown 6 · 2 2

Global Warming is the term often used to describe the overall rise in the average global temperature, strictly speaking that's all it is.

Climate Change, on the other hand, is the term that is used to describe how the climate is being affected as a result of these rising temperatures.

Effectively, global warming is the cause and climate change is the effect.

The media confused the issue by tending to apply the single term 'global warming' to everything, in recent years they're getting better and are now distinguishing between the two.

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I'm not sure what the purpose of the website is that you linked to, it's simply making a statement or offering a point of view without providing a single quote, reference, citation or link to back it up. It barely provides any reasoning at all and seems to come down to 'this is what I think so you should too but I'm not going to say why'.

2007-12-14 12:45:50 · answer #2 · answered by Trevor 7 · 5 2

Global warming is basically just a type of climate change.
A difference is that climate change is constant (as in it is always happening), and global warming is not.
Climate change is also a fairly straightforward term, while global warming can be interpreted in different ways. It could mean that the "global average temperature" is rising, which is what it is mostly used to mean, or it could mean that each part of the earth is heating up, which rarely, if ever, happens.
That's basically all there is to say, as your question does not go into anthropogenic warming vs. natural warming.

2007-12-14 12:19:12 · answer #3 · answered by punker_rocker 3 · 1 1

i do no longer understand plenty approximately it. I particularly have been fortunate to attend lectures by utilising between the Nobel Prize winning authors of the IPCC's 4th checklist, David Karoly as area of the two my undergrad and placed up-grad ranges. That replaced into super because of the fact it allowed me to ask him questions straight away that had arise for me for the period of previous study, like why Lovelock claimed that wind farms would desire to doubtlessly replace wind varieties or how they understand for specific that the better atmospheric CO2 isn't from volcanoes or the different organic source yet from burning fossil fuels. i've got not got a correct degree, i've got have been given a B.Sc in zoology/enviro technological understanding and am now doing grasp's in enviro technological understanding. So i think like I particularly have a physically powerful understanding of the subject concerns, and an thought of what the uncertainty is and the place it comes from; however the certainly chemistry of GHGs and so on is plenty over my head. I save an intensive eye on the ecological observations of climate replace because it extremely is printed by way of staring at technological understanding on an accepted basis and chasing up the comments which interest me. yet while it includes the chemistry or physics of international climate, there comes a factor the place I in simple terms would desire to take somebody else's be conscious for it.

2016-10-11 07:40:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Global warming causes climate change.

2007-12-14 12:13:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3 0

To answer your question, global warming causes climate changes. That's the relationship: cause and effect.

As for that article, it is drivel. Global warming (and climate change) today is being casued by humans. This is settled science--proven fact. There is no "discussion."

2007-12-14 13:23:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3 1

they go hand in hand. the polars are melting and the earth is changing you can tell even if you think you can't. i remember in the 50's when it was so cold and the weather was heavy snow and now we're lucky in the north if we have that. yes there are places where 20 foot snow banks were there and now we dont' see that. the biggest lake would f reeze over and now it does not. i have seen where we used to drive a car on the lake and ice fish now you are lucky if you can one year to the next. you can read about it

2007-12-14 14:12:57 · answer #7 · answered by Tsunami 7 · 1 0

First they're two names for the same thing.

Second, re your article. A lot of words and opinion, but no facts or data. This is science and what counts is the data, not someone's opinion. People who deny global warming is real like to claim it's "political" because the data is piled up against them.

"I wasn’t convinced by a person or any interest group—it was the data that got me. I was utterly convinced of this connection between the burning of fossil fuels and climate change. And I was convinced that if we didn’t do something about this, we would be in deep trouble.”

Vice Admiral Richard H. Truly, USN (Ret.)
Former NASA Administrator, Shuttle Astronaut

Here are two summaries of the mountain of peer reviewed data that convinced Admiral Truly and the vast majority of the scientific community, short and long.

http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Image:Climate_Change_Attribution.png
http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/wg1-report.html
summarized at:
http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM2feb07.pdf

There's a lot less controversy about this is the real world than there is on Yahoo answers:

http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/home_page/412.php?lb=hmpg1&pnt=412&nid=&id=

And vastly less controversy in the scientific community than you might guess from the few skeptics talked about here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_change
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5702/1686

"There's a better scientific consensus on this [climate change] than on any issue I know... Global warming is almost a no-brainer at this point. You really can't find intelligent, quantitative arguments to make it go away."

Dr. Jerry Mahlman, NOAA

Good websites for more info:

http://profend.com/global-warming/
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science/
http://www.realclimate.org
"climate science from climate scientists"
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn11462

2007-12-14 12:55:29 · answer #8 · answered by Bob 7 · 3 4

They are both normal and natural cycles of the earth. And they cannot be affected by human activity.

2007-12-15 17:28:49 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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