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Is climate change the same as global warming?

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We asked a NASA scientist.

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Not quite.

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They each have their own meanings, but they are related.

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So what's global warming?

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We have seen an increase in the surface
temperature averaged over the whole globe

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over the past century and a half,
and that temperature continues to rise.

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NASA has analyzed data about the Earth's climate system

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from multiple sources that tell the same story.

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On a global scale, the Earth's surface is heating up

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because of the increasing amounts of heat-trapping greenhouse gases that

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have been released into the atmosphere
from humans burning fossil fuels.

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That's global warming.

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Climate change is a more general term.

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It also refers to long term-changes over
many decades or hundreds of years.

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But it includes all types of changes in the typical weather climate

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that can be and have been observed from regional to global scales.

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NASA has instruments that have observed a diverse collection

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of the current impacts of climate change, like decreases in ice in the Arctic,

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droughts, increasing wildfires and increasing surface temperatures.

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These are all examples of indications of climate change.

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So is climate change the same as global warming?

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Not quite.

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They have their own specific meanings,
but they are related to one another.

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We asked a NASA scientist.

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NASA.
A NASA 360 production.