> Is climate warming the same as global warming?

Is climate warming the same as global warming?

Posted at: 2015-03-12 
Hmm I don't know, we have climate change, global warming, climate disruption, anything to make it sound alarming.

Well the climate changes, it always has done, but politicians and alarmists/environmentalists/greenies are referring to AGW (Anthropogenic Global Warming) which means man-made global warming, the problems are, at the moment the climate is not warming and hasn't for quite some time, secondly no-one has come up with a way to differentiate between natural warming and man-made warming (when we have some that is)

"Climate warming" is not a common term.

The commonly used terms are, "global warming" and "climate change".

On average, the earth is warming.

That's where "global warming" comes from.

In that process, some climates are changing.

For example, rain along the US pacific coast is, in general, moving farther north.

That's caused California to be more dry.

That's where the term, "Climate change" comes from.

AGW deniers lie when they day that "global warming" has been changed to "climate change" because it's not warming.

It is warming.

And in some places, climate is changing in other ways than simply warming.

I hope that answers the question that I think you tried to ask.

When the temperatures go up it's "Global Warming" and is absolute proof that it is caused by man.

When there is an 18 year pause in Global Warming is it called "Climate Change" and any weird weather event is proof that man is the cause.

Yes... Kinda, instead of "Climate Warming", the politically correct term is "Global Climate Change". This is exactly the same topic, just in the past years, scientists have changed the name Global Warming to Global Climate Change. The reason is because "Global Warming" is confusing some people, they assume because the Earth is warming, they expect temperatures to change immediately and drastically. But changing the name to Global Climate Change shows that the temperature is changing over time, and is not necessarily warming, but also cooling in some places.

Well I never heard the term climate warming (usually it is climate change), but both those terms do not specifically specify *global* climate, and as you know Earth has many different climates, like polar and tropical and so on. Global warming clearly means the global climate getting warmer, but the term "climate warming" is ambiguous; it could refer to a local climate.

Basically, yes. The two terms are often used interchangeably to describe the man-made rise in global average temperatures since the late 19th century.

If you want to get pedantic: global warming refers to the temperature increase itself. Climate change includes many other broad and lasting shifts in weather patterns that might result, such as changes in rainfall. But the two terms are closely related and many people just use them as synonyms.

The used to interchangeably ofter terms are man

Generally yes, but not necessarily.

no. you can have warming in a region.