Global Warming Vs Climate Change

There’s quite a lot of terminology around the science of climate change and global warming, but what does it actually mean? For example, global warming and climate change are terms that are often used interchangeably, but they’re actually very different things.

Global Warming is defined as “The long-term heating of Earth’s climate system observed since the pre-industrial period (between 1850 and 1900) due to human activities, primarily fossil fuel burning, which increases heat-trapping greenhouse gas levels in Earth’s atmosphere”

Climate change is defined as “A long-term change in the average weather patterns that have come to define Earth’s local, regional and global climates”

At its most basic, Global Warming is the earth getting warmer, Climate Change is the changes in weather because of the earth getting warmer.

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