• Question: what is the diffence between climate change and global warming

    Asked by anon-177563 to Nicola, Daniel, Becky, Andrew, Helen, Urslaan on 11 Jun 2018. This question was also asked by anon-177384.
    • Photo: Daniel Marsh

      Daniel Marsh answered on 11 Jun 2018:

      Global warming is an increase in the planets surface temperature, whilst climate change includes this warming but also all the other “side effects” of warming. This includes melting glaciers, heavier rainstorms, or more frequent droughts in other places. Global warming is really just one symptom or part of a much larger problem climate change caused by human activity.

    • Photo: Urslaan Chohan

      Urslaan Chohan answered on 14 Jun 2018:

      Global warming is about the rising temperature in the atmosphere. Climate change is about changing weather conditions, including global warming itself.

    • Photo: Andrew Singer

      Andrew Singer answered on 16 Jun 2018:

      Climate change is a complex mix of things changing about our world, while global warming is just referring to the temperature.

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