2008Dec8: From NASA’s website, “… temperature change itself isn’t the most severe effect of changing climate. Changes to precipitation patterns and sea level are likely to have much greater human impact than the higher temperatures alone. For this reason, scientific research on climate change encompasses far more than surface temperature change. So “global climate change” is the more scientifically accurate term. Like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, we’ve chosen to emphasize global climate change on this website, and not global warming” (NASA).
Reference: NASA http://globalclimatechange.jpl.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm?FuseAction=ShowNews&NewsID=32
Image Description: Wailuku Post Office. Photo by 293.xx.xxx.xx, 2007Dec6. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HawaiiRainfallDec6(1).JPG Image Permission: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 license.
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