Climate Change Vs. Global Warming?
There are many different ideas out there about climate change and global warming. Some people say they are the same thing while others say that they are two completely different idea.
Source: http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/basics/
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) see climate change and global warming as two separate entities. Global warming is causing climate change but it only represents one aspect of climate change. Whereas they see climate change as sustained change in temperature and other natural forces. The link above will bring you to their page on climate change.
NASA similarly says that the two are not the same with similar definitions NASA goes on to talk about how they are more aped to use the term climate change. They also talk about how the terms came out and why global warming is currently the more popular name to understand the situation.
Even with people out there knowing that there is a difference between the two terms, when you look up images for climate change the same images come up as when you look for global
warming.
Source: http://studentmedia.uab.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/causes-of-global-warming-208x300.jpg
This popular image of a Polar Bear sitting on barely any ice is a popular image in both searches.
Source: http://fabiusmaximus.com/2012/12/10/mother-jones-polar-global-warming-46664/
This image of a Earth on fire is also a popular image found on both searches. But when I look at this image I mainly think of global warming not climate change.
This short video gives another perspective on the differences between climate change and global warming.
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