Are Climate Change and Global Warming the Same Thing?

The United Nations Framework on Climate Change defines climate change as “a change of climate which is attributed directly, or indirectly, to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate variability observed over comparable time periods”

There have always been emissions of CO2, but since this particular gas remains in the atmosphere for up to 200 years, countries with a long history of industrialisation are therefore responsible for the majority of emissions in the atmosphere today.  Nearly 50% of current greenhouse gas emissions come from energy used in heating, lighting, transportation, international trade and manufacturing.

Global warming, however, is the increase in global mean temperature and it has now been conclusively proven that these changes are definitely anthropogenic (i.e. caused by humans)  The burning of fossil fuels is the major cause, closely followed by the removal of forests and their replacement with intensive animal rearing agriculture. Gases classified as “greenhouse gases” include carbon di-oxide (CO2), methane, (CH4), nitrous oxide (NO2), sulphur dioxide SO2

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