Is it called "global warming" anymore? Or was it changed to "climate change" after all the .
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Every time it gets warm people cry "global warming!" and every time it's cold, they cry "whatever happened to global warming?"
You can use either term. The world is getting warmer, without a doubt. But that doesn't mean that every day will be warmer in every place. There will still be fluctuations. Winter will still come. It will still snow. And the weather will become much more unstable and extreme, which may mean some places see unusually cold weather on occasion, even though the general trend is still warming.
It does seem puny that every where Albert (6) Arnold(6) Gore Jr(6) went to give his slide show last year..EVERY WHERE HE WENT IT SNOWED WHILE HE WAS THERE..EVERYWHERE EVERY TIME!
Well, the global warming is causing the climate change.
Global warming causes global climate change.
Isolated snow wherever you live says nothing about GLOBAL warming.
"2007: Tied for Hottest Year on Record So Far"
http://climateprogress.org/2007/06/14/20...
Sorry to burst your bubble with facts. Damned facts always getting in the way!
The terms are often used interchangeably. Climate change has always been the preferred term by scientists, the press and the general public often use "global warming".
Short term weather means nothing for global warming. Particularly in one location. Contrary to the wild accusations here, that's something all scientists say.
This graph shows it well, even though it's for the whole Earth. Year to year things jump around a lot. That's weather for you. But the long term trend (aka "climate") is undeniable.
http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/ima...
They call it "climate change" because "global warming" doesn't work when its cold all winter. It's all fake political nonsense anyways. They are trying to create a movement to gain power again by brainwashing people into believe higher prices and taxes are the way to shove problems.
Bob (above) is correct.
"Global warming" and "climate change" are two different terms
Global Warming is the unnatural increase in the atmosphere's average temperature caused by human produced green house gases.
Climate Change is the long term change in regional weather directly caused by global warming. Because Earth's weather derives is power from the atmosphere, extra heat (energy) throws the whole weather system out of whack. This is being observed today, right now, in the polar areas.
I believe it is still referred to as global warming and according to scientists, it is worse than originally thought.
scientists typically use the word Global climate change, because realistically not all regions will warm, and not all regions will get cooler.
The greenhouse effect seems to be making lower atmospheric regions warmer, while the upper regions are cooling.
This effect, called global warming by some, is effecting climates worldwide causing drastic changes.
it isn't researchers that can't make up their minds, it is the media, that is battleing back and forth on whether or not it is occuring and if it is caused by man.
Since it has been proven that man's emissions do effect climate, it is hard to rule out the effects of our emissions on the global environment, but are our emisssions causing the warming effect? possibly, but that idea is a bit tougher to show with the myriad of other factors that may or may not be major players.
either way, the pollution is causing environmental damage that needs to be dealt with as soon and as fast as possible.
No. Many scientists now refer to it as climate change because a bunch of dorks got the idea into their heads that global warming would 'make everything real hot'. Since that wasn't the case they felt it necessary to use more precise wording.
Increased precipitation (which includes snowfall) is an expected part of global warming. Increased temperatures lead to more evaporation which leads to more precipitation.
And whether or not the observed warming would have an effect on hurricane activity is still being debated by scientists. None of whom doubt human influence on the climate.
Even so, I assume even the harshest skeptic of the theory doesn't believe that the climate isn't changing, whether they think it's human caused or no. And if the change in climate we've seen had an effect on hurricane intensity, don't you think we'd see it whether global warming was human caused or not? If so, why is lack hurricane activity evidence that human caused global warming isn't real?
Here's how it works (you could get this from any dictionary of science or good website--but you need at least a grade schoolknowledge of science to use those, so I'll lay it out for you to make allowances):
1) Global warming refers to overall long term averages--not to short-term local variations. Cool temperatures in an area in April mean nothing in this context--nor do the unusually high readings in the American West. Its the long-term average that is important.
2) Global warming and climate change are terms that have different meanings. I laready defined global warming. Climate change refers to just what it says--changes in the overall weather patterns on a long-term basis. A long term change in rainfall, for instance, woud be a climate change.
3) The relationship between the two terms is as follows: The global warming (long-term rise in average global temperatures) is a cause of changes in climate. Scientists don't usually make the phrasing so explicit, since the tend to assume their audience has enough of a grasp of basic English to figure it out . As you've shown, they have too high an estimate of the intelligence of some people.
It doesn't matter what you say, you're wrong. If the weather stays the same for years, it's Global Climate Change.
different from year to year = GCC
warmer = GCC
colder = GCC
milder = GCC
more extreme = GCC
drier = GCC
wetter = GCC
frequent cyclonic conditions = GCC
infrequent cyclonic conditions = GCC
Man has been living with Global Climate Change since day one on the planet. He just hasn't had these "geniuses" to point that out to him.
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