Global Warming or Climate Change....Which is it now?

Question

Seems like the term Climate Change is being used more often now to cover for scenarios that contradict Global Warming...i.e. why we have such cold winters this year.

Is this a way to save face...my slowly and secretly replacing a term that is more broad in order to drive an agenda?

and if you don't think it was cold in Florida? Tell that to the iguanas.... LoL

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,319971,00.html

Answer 1

its both.

Answer 2

i think global warming is a "division" of climate change. Different places getting warmer is an example of it.

Answer 3

Global warming causes global climate change.  They're 2 different things.  You're oversimplifying things saying 'if humans cause warming then what causes cooling?'.

Many different factors can cause the planet to both warm and cool.  Usually variations in the Earth's orbital (Milankovitch) cycles and solar output cause climate change, and these changes are amplified by things like CO2 (and other greenhouse gases) being released into the atmosphere.

Your question about Florida confuses weather with climate, and local with global.

Answer 4

The only place I seem to even see debate over the names is denier blogs, as if the name is some how an important issue?

I couldn't comment on the weather in Florida, but I have seen a number of question in the last few weeks about how cold it was in 2007 which include Australia (which I do know about) this is simply a lie (see link) Even in March 2008 when it should have cooled down Adelaide smashed its old record of 8 days over 35c with 15 days over 35c.

Answer 5

As for the country I reside in I would definitely call it Global warming, because we haven't seen normal winters for the last couple of years.Fur coats are used very rarely. Christmas and New Year are met with 0 degrees Celsius temperature. Some 20 years ago I remember it was so cold that it was difficult to stay outside the house for more than 10 min.

Answer 6

The problem  come from the dryness of the underground  .

This phenomenus  is the result of human activities such as overpumping ans drainages.

It accelerate the water cycle  in smaller space ine the atmosphere.

Then the  air cycle  coming back from poles bring more dryness  wich is comunicated  on the ground. .

More water in the ground temperate the temperature of air.

Answer 7

Global warming is an example of climate change, and a driver of climate changes other than global warming.

Climate change is also a consequence of volcanic activity, the el nino la nina effect, ice water melt off that can send us a major cooling in the midst of a longer term warming trend.

Now if you think this is a new term, watch inconvenient truth to note what Mr Gore says is a likely scenario if we get a rapid melt off from Greenland. Global warming can also trigger mini-ice ages. Global warming can and does end with a major ice age.

I know, some relish the idea of bringing on more heat, That attitude is taking into account the end or the warming part of the cycle in which we  will have arctic beach fronts frost free for as much as 250 days a year, but not the major reduction in food production in the period between now and then.

If we should have a group of volcanoes blow a lot of ash into the upper atmosphere, we could in fact see decades of lower temperatures.  We can not predict that. We can not bet on this happening in  a timely way.

Answer 8

You know you are preisely right with your comments.  'Climate change' is the trendy term these days, I hate it and people don't know they when they use it, they are reinforcing a euphemism.

A few years ago the Bush administration (who afterall are global warming skeptics) asked an advisor, a spin-doctor, to come up with a plan to try and debunk global warming in the eyes of the public.  This man, Frank Luntz, came up with a 16 point plan and one of those point was to call the changes and the effect 'climate change'.  It was supposed to sound that much more natural and not the result of human activity.

So, the moral to the story is drop the term 'climate change' and return to its forerunner 'global warming' and send the skeptics to where they are sending us, the pile of extinction!  Oh and tell your friends and family!

Answer 9

niether