What’s in a name? Weather, global warming and climate change

"Climate change" and "global warming" are often used interchangeably, but they have different meanings. Similarly, the terms "weather" and "climate" are occasionally confused, but they refer to events with roughly different spatial and temporal scales.

Weather is the atmospheric condition occurring locally from a few minutes to several hours or a few days in a short time. Well-known examples include rain, snow, clouds, wind, floods, and thunderstorms. Do not forget that the weather is short-lived in the area

On the other hand, the climate is the long-term regional average of the season, year, or decades of temperature, humidity, and rainfall patterns, and even the global average. Do not forget that the climate is global and long-term

Global warming means the global temperature rise since the beginning of the 20th century, especially since the latter half of the 1970s, due to the increase in fossil fuel emissions since the Industrial Revolution. Since 1880, the world's average surface temperature rose by about 0.8 ° C (1.4 ° F) compared to the mid-20th century baseline (1951-1980).

Climate change refers to the broad range of global phenomena, primarily caused by the combustion of fossil fuels. These phenomena include not only the temperature rising trend explained by global warming, but also the sea level rise, the glacier decline of mountain glaciers in Greenland, Antarctica, Arctic and the world, changes in flower / plant flowering, extreme weather phenomena It also includes changes such as.

Ice melting and sea level rise are expected outcomes of global warming, but the impact of climate change is many other things that are not intuitive. At this point, slight differences are needed between climate change and global warming. Global warming refers to long-term global warming of the earth, whereas climate change represents a broader range of changes, such as global warming, more extreme weather events, and long-term and difficult to predict weather patterns . According to NASA, other effects of climate change include changes in precipitation patterns, more drought and heat waves, stronger and more intense hurricanes, and more unpredictable areas weather patterns.

Global warming refers to an increase in the average global temperature over time, but climate change also includes the impact of global warming, such as glacier melting, changes in weather patterns, increased hurricane risks I will. For example, the terms recently used by scientists such as global warming are indeed the most commonly used terms, such as greenhouse gas emissions mainly from the combustion of fossil fuels, as well as human-induced mildness caused by aerosol pollution, agriculture and deforestation . On the other hand, climate change can be caused by natural occurrence such as humans and the ice ages.