What's the Difference Between Climate Change and Global Warming?
“Events like Sandy are more likely and made worse because of warming,” says Abraham. “But they’re manifested in other ways: heavier precipitation events, and flooding, and sea level rise. Most people don’t link [things like] precipitation directly to global warming.” This, in a nutshell, is the reason scientists prefer the term “climate change”—it’s a better way to describe insanely complex systems.