Global Warming vs Climate Change- Global Warming Talk

Whether referred to as "global warming" or "climate change," the consequences of the widescale changes currently being observed in Earth's climate system could be considerable. The Union of Concerned Scientists website on climate change is titled "Global Warming," just one of many examples. To a scientist, global warming describes the average global surface temperature increase from human emissions of greenhouse gases. Global warming refers to surface temperature increases, while climate change includes global warming and everything else that increasing greenhouse gas amounts will affect. For this reason, scientific research on climate change encompasses far more than surface temperature change. Like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, we've chosen to emphasize global climate change on this website, and not global warming. read more

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