Notice: this was before Al Gore came upon the earth.
In all countries there is separate periods or seasons for each climate. When there is some changes we call it as a climate change. The main reason for the climate change is the global warming. It is a result of the pollution of CO2 and other green house gases. Because of several reasons the green house gases are increasing in this earth. The global warming resulted in the melting of ice, the increased temperature in the places etc. All these are climate changes.
Climate change is, well, change in the climate. Climate is basically a long-term average of weather.
The term climate change is also used as shorthand for anthropogenic (human-caused) global warming. It's caused by the increasing CO2 in the Earth's atmosphere, mostly from humans burning fossil fuels like coal and gasoline (also from a few other things, like deforestation and methane)
If you want more information, try here:
http://www.skepticalscience.com/
http://aip.org/history/climate/summary.h...
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/...
http://www.realclimate.org/
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;... (a while back, I asked people to post links to sources at various experience levels)
Cliamte change is changes in temperature, wind and precipatation patterns. According to the laws of thermodynamics, climate change is caused by changes in the energy balance between Earth and space and between different regions on Earth.
Over periods of decades and centuries, natural climate change is more dramatic over small areas than over the whole planet. It happened during the Medieval Warm Period and is why 1934 was one of the warmest years in the United States.
http://mediamatters.org/mobile/research/...
http://www.meteo.psu.edu/~mann/shared/ar...
Global warming is a more specific term than climate change. It involves the energy input to Earth exceeding the energy going out by a tiny fraction of 1 percent. Anthropogenic global warming is when the actions of humans cause such an energy imbalance.
Nature controls the climate/ change nature and life will be destroy on earth. Mike
