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What is climate change? A definition from the Department of Ecology of Washington State reads: Climate includes patterns of temperature, precipitation, humidity, wind and seasons. It affects more than just a change in the weather and refers to seasonal changes over a long period of time. These climate patterns play a fundamental role in shaping natural ecosystems, and the human economies and cultures that depend on them.

It may be used inter-changably with global warming as they’re closely related. Global warming causes climates to change. Here is NASA discussion on the two terms, What's In A Name?

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Answering Climate Change Skeptics by Naomi Oreskes

Naomi Oreskes, author and professor of history and science studies at the University of California, San Diego, delivered a presentation based on her book, *Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscure the Truth about Climate Change*.

This lecture was part of the University of Rhode Island's Spring 2010 Vetlesen Lecture Series, "People and Planet Global Environmental Change," held on March 2, 2010.

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EarthSayer Naomi Oreskes

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