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Natural climate changes at a very slow rate that to the people experiencing it, it barely changes at all. However man-made climate change indicates a rate that
by s-lambert 5y ago
Natural climate changes at a very slow rate that to the people experiencing it, it barely changes at all. However man-made climate change indicates a rate that will be noticeable in a human lifetime.
It is fair to simply say "climate change" to mean "the rapid climate change that we are experiencing". There is no need to add the "man-made" distinction other than to please people being overly literal.
- akvadrako 5y agoNatural climate changes are actually much faster and larger in magnitude. A recent example is the younger dryas, where temps went down about 5°C in decades and a thousand years later did the reverse. Further back in time we don't have the resolution to see such small spikes like what we have now.