"Global warming" was dropped in favor of "climate change" because global warming is incorrect [View all]

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Last edited Mon Jul 23, 2018, 09:23 AM - Edit history (2)

according to scientific studies.

Anyway, if you read something like that (I just did today on Facebook), you have encountered a deplorable (yup, I just did).

I was curious enough to look up why "climate change" is the preferred term supposedly.

Whats in a Name? Global Warming vs. Climate Change, NASA

Global warming: the increase in Earth’s average surface temperature due to rising levels of greenhouse gases.

Climate change: a long-term change in the Earth’s climate, or of a region on Earth.

Within scientific journals, this is still how the two terms are used. Global warming refers to surface temperature increases, while climate change includes global warming and everything else that increasing greenhouse gas amounts will affect.

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But temperature change itself isn't the most severe effect of changing climate. Changes to precipitation patterns and sea level are likely to have much greater human impact than the higher temperatures alone. For this reason, scientific research on climate change encompasses far more than surface temperature change. So "global climate change" is the more scientifically accurate term. Like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, we've chosen to emphasize global climate change on this website, and not global warming.

More: https://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/climate_by_any_other_name.html

In other words (for Venn Diagram afficionados), climate change is a superset of global warming.

By the way, if said deplorable starts in on how the temperature measurements are biased because they don't correct for the growing urban heat island affect or that they miscalibrated some satellite readings or some horseshit like that, show it this:

Looking for signs of global warming? It's all around you, AP, 6/19/18
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/06/19/climate-change-signs-all-around

I posted excerpts at: https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=10813796

EDIT: Please see number 8 for the moron dialog I was referring to -- see how idiotic the climate change deniers' arguments are, and with the usual gratuitous swipe at Al Gore