User talk:Mu301/Climate change

Thoughts or comments are welcome. --mikeu talk 22:59, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

Comments by Femkemilene
You've been more successful than me in assembling sources. I did a Google Scholar search explicitly from 2015 with "global warming" "climate change" and "interchangeably" or "encompasses". The last words do impact searches, but I'm not entirely sure what search terms give the most neutral definitions.

Even though climate scientists distinguish between climate change (CC) and global warming (GW) (with CC being the more general term that refers to changes in a broad range of climate conditions over time and GW referring to only the global earth temperature increase aspect of climate change), the general public and the media often use the two terms interchangeably.

In general, global warming refers to the rising global average surface-level temperatures that scientists have linked to human activities (chiefly, fossil fuel combustion that creates heat-trapping greenhouse gases), whereas climate change encompasses broader changes to the state or variability of the climate (e.g., increased precipitation, ocean acidification)


 * Thanks for the input. I had to use a wide variety of terms including "language" "communication" "versus" etc. I don't know that there's any neutral way to approach searching. Instead I'm interested in compiling what the RSs say about the definition, usage, and understanding of the phrases. --mikeu talk 22:55, 12 November 2019 (UTC)

More is less in presentation?
Tiny suggestion: as scientific articles don't change and we want to use this to convince people, let's remove access dates? Femke Nijsse (talk) 21:30, 19 November 2019 (UTC)