What do you think about global warming and climate change?

Global warming? What do we call it? Both are accurate, but they mean different things. You can think of global warming as one type of climate change. The broader term covers changes beyond warmer temperatures, such as shifting rainfall patterns. read more

The Union of Concerned Scientists, a group of over two thousand scientists, has concluded that global warming is beyond dispute, and already changing our climate. read more

Global warming is the term used to describe the current increase in the Earth's average temperature. Climate change refers not only to global changes in temperature but also to changes in wind, precipitation, the length of seasons as well as the strength and frequency of extreme weather events like droughts and floods. read more

For starters, it is completely unrealistic to think that humanity can curtail, on a global basis, the activities that are causing global warming. To do so we would need to develop clean energy technologies throughout the world, in rich countries and poor countries alike, in quantities sufficient to allow all the nations on earth to cut off the burning of fossil fuels. read more