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International standards and resources
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) provides a glossary of terms. Note that many terms in this glossary do not comply with Australian editorial conventions, particularly in relation to the use of capital letters, so the glossary should be used with caution.
Australian conventions and resources
The Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO publish information about climate change in Australia.
Terms to watch out for:
climate change, climate variability, global warming, global change, greenhouse effect
climate change: the long-term change in Earth’s weather patterns. Although the term is often used to refer to anthropogenic climate change – that is, caused by human activities, such as burning fossil fuels and mass deforestation – Earth system events, such as volcanic eruptions and tectonic plate movements, also contribute to climate change
climate variability: the year-to-year change seen in regional weather; should not be used interchangeably with climate change
global warming: the increasing average global air temperature that is associated with climate change
global change: planetary-scale changes in atmospheric circulation, ocean circulation, climate, the carbon cycle, the nitrogen cycle, the water cycle, sea ice, sea level, food webs, biological diversity, pollution, health and so on
greenhouse effect: the process by which radiation from a planet’s atmosphere warms the surface of the planet to a temperature above what it would be in the absence of an atmosphere. Anthropogenic climate change is sometimes referred to as the enhanced greenhouse effect
climate: the weather conditions prevailing in an area in general, or over a particular period
weather: the temperature and conditions of cloudiness, dryness, sunshine, wind, rain and so on, at a particular place and time