'global warming' and 'climate change' mean different things and have both been used for decades.
'global warming' and 'climate change' mean different things and have both been used for decades.
climate change (general concept):2
climate change (general concept)
scientists have identified many episodes of climate change during earth's geological history; more recently since the industrial revolution the climate has increasingly been affected by human activities driving global warming, and the terms are commonly used interchangeably in that context.