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We’ve got a copy of the History Channel’s A Global Warning? DVD to giveaway for one lucky reader, courtesy of Attention USA. Details on how to enter are at the end of the post.
Is it hot in here? Understand the most pressing global issue of our age with this definitive two-hour The History Channel® special.
- Is the Earth experiencing a natural cycle or are we to blame for global climate change?
- Dynamic computer animations clarify the complex science at the root of the issue.
- Visit far-flung locations where research is being conducted — and where the impact is being felt.
The litany of disasters reads like the Apocalypse: melted ice caps, submerged coastal cities, prairies turned to deserts. Mass extinctions. This worst case scenario is not merely a prophecy or work of fiction. It is a very real possibility that may loom in our not too distant future. But how likely is this outcome, what will bring it about and can it be avoided?
To answer these imperative questions, The History Channel® applies its renowned expertise and authority to the issue of global warming in this very special feature-length documentary. A Global Warning? spans the globe — fourteen extreme locations in all — to survey the frontline of scientific research and climatic impact.
Meet with scientists unearthing evidence of our planet’s ancient weather history — crocodiles may have once roamed the Arctic! — and with experts analyzing humanity’s ever-expanding footprint. Understand, with the help of exacting animations, how sun activity, volcanic eruptions, meteor impacts, and even continental drift have made huge differences in the earth’s weather systems.
To enter to win a copy, leave a comment here with your opinion regarding what term we ought to use, global warming or climate change. Or if you use Twitter, tweet one of these, and make sure to use the hashtag #TwilightGiveaway:
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The contest runs until Friday, October 23rd at midnight. Enter as many times as you wish, and we’ll pick one winner by a random drawing. This contest is limited to those in the U.S., due to shipping constraints (Sorry to not offer it to those readers outside the U.S., but we’ll try to change that for the next giveaway)
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I sort of use the two almost interchangeably, but Climate Change strikes me as more accurate.
This should be global warming, becasue it affects more that just the climate, it affects us our way of living, our nature, our earth, everyhting including our health
I feel many misunderstand the term global warming… perhaps climate change would better fit.
I also use the two (which deniers love to point out). Climate Change is more accurate, but doesn’t separate the natural changes from anthropogenic change. More people recognize the term Global Warming as referring to anthropogenic change. But we are doing more than warming the globe, so it is a hard pick. When I speak to a general audience, I tend to use the term Global Warming.
Personally, I think climate change is a less politically charged term, so it gets my vote. This is such a serious topic, and whatever it’s called needs to help raise awareness amongst the general public, and not create more divisions (to the extent possible).
“Global heating” is more like it, but for the sake of keeping the conversation going, I have seen over and over again that “climate change” is the best term to keep more ears open to hear us out.
It has always been about Climate Change, Global Warming/Cooling do not tell the whole story.
I definitely think “global climate change.” I get so sick of hearing from deniers when its unseasonably cold outside!
I think Global Warming sounds more ominous, hopefully equalling more serious attention paid to it.
I think that they both are primitive and outdated. They have both been around, esp. in scientific circles for a very long time. They no longer really have the same meaning, nor carry the weight of the urgency of the problem. They are tired. Since I am geared more toward ‘marketing’ think, I believe a new term is in order that begins to truly address the issues, something more refined, maybe more objective that creates more of a call to action. I will be thinking about what it might be:::
Climate change, because it’s more logic based and less open to quantification (ie.m what is “warm”? By whose measurement). The earth is experiencing Climate Change on a grand scale. It’s fact and not something as genteel as “warming.”
I usually use the term Climate Change. To me it represents a broader term that refers to long-term changes in climate, including average temperature and precipitation.
I think climate change is better. Not all of the changes are about warming. Also, as mentioned before, it’s less politically charged and more accurate.
Climate change is the more accurate term because the Earth will not become warmer everywhere.
For example, Great Britain should become colder due to a changes in the Gulf Stream.
i’m gonna say climate change cause global warming change i would think wouldn’t be good.
OKay, so I agree and think that climate change is more accurate. But I also think it should be “Extreme Climate Change” thanks to Bono. He is correct about this, and it carrys more of the heaviness of ‘global warming’. (or even “Extreme Global Climate Change” or just “Extreme Global Climate” so it is not such a mouthful. and it is a bit fresh)
I think “climate change” is a more encompassing phrase because global cooling could just as easily be a problem for us as global warming is if conditions were different.
“Climate Change”
But I think we’ve got a bigger communication problem that needs addressing. You see a lot of folks see this as some kind of trumped up liberal issue and no something that will effect us all. I think we need to find a way to describe what’s going on in a way that brings everyone (liberal and conservative) together to change the way humans live on earth.
So I suspect something that describes the effect on people will be more successful. In other words move the words off the environment and onto the effect on our future on earth.
I’ll noodle over this more. Not sure there is an easy way to accomplish this.
The impact of the term Global Warming is far mor gripping than climate change. Climate change seems to be coming into favor as it is more palatable and suggests a slower long term problem. The populous has a hard time absorbing the dramatic nature of the term Global Warming. It is a strong, nervous term that spurs worry and action. It is for this reason that it should be favored in describing the inevitable situation that the earth now finds itself in. Soft-terming the very real reality of Global Warming will not spur the masses to action. And Action is what the Earth so desperately needs right now.