04-24-2018, 12:57 AM
(04-23-2018, 04:46 PM)Jimbone Wrote: It used to be called 'global warming', but since cooling happens sometime they changed it to 'climate change'.
And it's its own religion.
'Global warming' is still 'global warming' and 'climate change' is still 'climate change'. They've always been used in science and that's still the case.
It's mostly deniers of the science who claim that 'global warming' was changed to 'climate change', but that's false. However, it is true that 'climate change' is more commonly used by non-scientists these days and the two terms are often wrongly used interchangeably.
As Cars noted, they have separate meanings. Global warming and climate change are causally related though. Global warming (average global temperature rise, which doesn't mean hotter temps consistently in every location) leads to climate change -- severe weather conditions, floods, drought...
Anyway, I do believe that increased release of CO2 emissions into the atmosphere by humans is at least partly responsible for global warming leading to climate change. But, I'm not confident as to what extent.