The phrase global warming has become a misleading headline for the debate on the subject….The “warming” part is not necessarily the short-term result of climate change.
The key words are indeed “CLIMATE CHANGE”, because that is what happens in the short term. We loose our well defined seasons, we get crazy weather patterns, colder winters, warmer summers, polar ice melts, and snow in Madrid etc a global “WARMING” as such is not evident in every corner of the earth all the time.
The naysayers on climate change, latch onto this misnomer of short term warming and try to explain away dramatic climate changes as natural short term events, while pointing to recent cold weather in the US and Europe as being contradictory signs, and certainly not warming at all….
Let´s be a bit smarter, and understand that global warming is only the catch phrase for the Climate Change debate, focusing on semantics is only a distraction. “Warming” may not be visible in the short term, and as such may not be the indicator of climate change.
However, erratic weather patterns and polar ice melts are indeed signs of long-term climate shifts and a warming by degree´s in the earth´s core atmosphere….lets end the debate, lets start acting on real issue´s now.
When talking about the subject we should use the term climate change, because that fact is self-evident, the climate is indeed changing.
Stay Green…
