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What's the difference between global warming and climate change?

October 2025

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BBC Wildlife

PEOPLE OFTEN USE THE TERMS global warming and climate change interchangeably, but they describe different concepts. Global warming refers to Earth’s increasing surface temperature.

- Beki Hooper

What's the difference between global warming and climate change?

Our planet's surface temperature has been rising for the past century-and-a-half, with the most significant rise happening from the 1970s to the present. The increase is caused by heat-trapping greenhouse gases, which are released when we burn fossil fuels such as coal.

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