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Originally Posted by metalic
Climate change is what the scientists call what is happening to the Earth's climate - generally warming and with increased examples of extreme weather, such as higher highs, lower lows, more droughts and more floods.
Global warming is what climate change deniers call what is happening, so that they can point to a few places that are cooler and claim that since not everywhere is warming then the scientists must be lying.
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Nice try, but here's a better definition:
Global warming is a sub-category of
climate change, during which average global temperatures are rising. The opposite is
global cooling, also a sub-category, which is obviously when global temperatures are dropping.
Both have occurred cyclically many times over in the past 4 million years (time frame of our
current ice age).
Neither have anything at all to do with the last 100 years of burning fossil fuels.
Unless, of course, anyone can name the make and model of Fred Flintstone's SUV
