THE EXPLAINER
Jun 25, 2020
3 minutes
by ALEX FRANKLIN-CHEUNG
IS CLIMATE CHANGE THE SAME AS GLOBAL WARMING?
People often use the terms ‘climate change’ and ‘global warming’ to describe the same phenomenon: an increase in average global temperatures, caused by humans adding heat-trapping greenhouse gases into our planet’s atmosphere. But while some places are getting warmer as a result, other parts of the globe might sometimes be cooler. And ocean or atmospheric temperatures aren’t the only thing changing: weather patterns and sea levels are too. Some people therefore prefer to
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