http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warm...
BTW, the idea that there has been no warming in 17 years is flat out wrong. 9 of the 10 hottest years ever recorded have been since 2000. You'll see people make this claim all the time. 1998 was a hot year because of a very strong el nino. However, the earth continues to warm, but not in a straight line.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumenta...
You'll also see people say that, "It's the sun." The energy output from the sun changes less than 0.1% over an 11 year cycle. It's not the sun that's causing global warming.
Specifically as to your question, "climate change" means that there's a change in the climate.
"Global warming" means that the the average temperature around the earth is increasing.
When the entire earth is either warming or cooling, there is a change in the climate.
But it's important to understand what that change is (warmer, cooler, wetter, drier, etc) to make sense of what's happening to the climate around the world.
The sun heats the earth's surface; subsequent heat loss is slowed/trapped by greenhouse gasses (including CO2); humans have added 42% CO2; temperatures are rising. You just can't pump large amounts of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere without consequences. The dominant force behind climate change right now is anthropogenic global warming.
See: http://climate.nasa.gov/causes
the Warming caused more erratic weather; Change. Some areas, like N America had a record cold winter while Australia and Alaska had record high temps.
The filthy rich Koch Bros/big oil have been spending millions on phony 'science' and misinformation which has successfully fooled many gullible people into thinking 'it's all a hoax!'. They are the same type of people who think Rush Limbaugh is smart, or man never walked on the moon, or the Matrix might be real.
He is trying to say he is in denial. People impact the landscape. Scientists, scholars, everyone of knowledge conceeds that these changes are indeed happening. He implies that he needs to become current on the issue. Is that a really old passage?
The writer is stating that all the world scientists are in it for the money and they are fixing temperatures on sensors because those in power, the governments, tell them what to do. It is much the same as other deniers state in here. they are different from skeptics. they are deniers. They deny the data, the measurements, how the natural world is changing supporting increasing temperatures, and so on. He is ignoring the fact that more energy is being stored in the lower atmosphere. I think the more probable statement is that he is clueless, not you.
Not sure what this writer said, but there is a theory that the global warming that has been seen to date is primarily caused by natural factors, perhaps a change in cloudiness, and that this has been misattributed to CO2. see drroyspencer.com for details.
All these warmers are simply guessing about the article. I have no idea what the article is saying, nor will I ignorantly pretend to. If you could link me to the article, I could help you with the interpretation.
Well CO2 does cause warming, but not very much, most of the climate change is from natural causes, ocean cycles and solar cycles, and there has been no significant warming for 17yrs
I have this passage to analyse. The writer says we have to rethink climate change. Instruments show warming of the earth but its not accurate. He later says there is no warming at all. Sun causes climate change. Warming is due to variation in the sun's output. He finishes by saying climate change will come and go and we can do nothing about it.
I am clueless because I need to find the conclusion but I do not know what is he trying to imply.
