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Why do we use the term climate change instead of global warming?

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Climate Change is more siencetific.

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Both of the terms in question are used frequently in the scientific literature, because they refer to two different physical phenomena. As the name suggests, 'global warming' refers to the long-term trend of a rising average global temperature

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