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Global warming and climate change: What's the difference?

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Global warming and climate change: What's the difference? This time, we're going to talk about a hot topic: climate change. Here, we'll discuss the effects of this phenomenon briefly and simply, as well as how it differs from another popular term: global warming. By Roberto Diaz Blanco Although the terms climate change and global warming are sometimes used interchangeably, they are not synonymous. The evidence is obvious that the Earth is warming. Climate change is a word that is widely used to describe environmental devastation around the world. Climate change - what is it? According to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), any major change in climatic measurements that lasts for an extended length of time. As a result, climate change encompasses considerable variations in temperature, precipitation, and wind patterns, among other things, over several decades or more.  How does global warming work? It's important to distinguish between climate change and global