When Did Global Warming Become Climate Change? :: Climate Change vs Global Warming

If we want to address orbiculate warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious fossil fuels as rapidly as possible, we must learn to use our resources more wisely, kick our addiction, and pronto start turning to sources of energy that have fewer negative impacts.-- David Suzukiearlier this year one of my friends asked, So which essay topic did you decide on? To which I responded, Global warming. Then my friend responded, That is impossible. Global warming was not even an option, I was worried. I rushed back to my apartment and unresolved my course binder to find that I was actually writing round climate alteration and not global warming. Then I wondered, When did global warming morph into climate counterchange? Am I in school to learn about fashion? Are we all unless following the latest trend? What does any of this have to do with intuition?According to Erik Conway of NASA, Global warming refers to surface temp erature increases, while climate change includes global warming and everything else that increasing greenhouse gas amounts will make believe (Conway). Recently the United States has experienced a drop in temperature. This retiring(a) weekend I was walking with a friend. With nothing to talk about, the tactless silence was finally filled with a comment on the weather. He said, Its so incredibly cold So much for global warming What my friend, nor I at the beginning of the semester, did not understand was that temperature change itself isnt the most severe effect of changing climate. Changes to precipitation patterns and sea level are likely to have much greater serviceman impact than the higher temperatures alone (Conway). Thankfully the national media has begun to increasingly seed the more scientifically significant term climate change.