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Originally Posted by Riot
No, Santorum is a scientific idiot, and what he said about CO2 and plants in relation to global warming/climate change is wrong and completely ignorant of fact.
Santorum having a national platform to spew his false crap about science is dangerous for this country.
Global climate change has always been the scientific use, and global warming the public use to try and get Americans, mostly ignorant of science, aware of what is happening. "global warming" is the more generic term, "climate change" is not.
Your implication, that one term is based in human causality and the other is not, is false. "Climate change" is not synonymous with "weather".
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Climate means the weather for a specific area, not much else. If that area is the planet Earth, the climate has been known to change for some time now.
Not sure what he said but if he was using the terminology "global warming" anything might be true.
If you know about geology it is easy to tell how the earth's temperature has altered since it's inception, as opposed to freaking out over comparing 200 years or so of likely inaccurate weather data to our very accurate current data.