It is understood that global warming is a direct consequence of the green house effect which can be explained quite simply as follows.

Green house gases produced due to human activities block the sunlight from returning back after reflecting from the earths surface to space, and it is reflected  back to earth causing the phenomenon which we know as Green house effect. The consequence of green house effect causes what is known as global warming. Which increases the temperature of earth.  

The problem with today's world is that the term "Global warming" has been incorrectly referred  to everything ranging from the warming of the earth, the changes in wind and tidal patterns , the change in the patterns of rain and all the climate related effects. The result of this has created a very false picture of the whole issue prompting people to question the authenticity of "Global warming". In fact global warming is just a part of the whole issue, or it could be accurately defined as the main consequence of the accumulation of green house gases. Therefore it is important to inform and educate people to see the complete picture of climate change and make it a point to refer to these events as "CLIMATE CHANGE".

The second misconception associated with  the issue of Climate change is the category of concern it has been labelled to. Many affiliate and define climate change as an "Environmental crisis".

"I have my self experienced this situation  while conducting awareness programs in schools. Most of the time the administrators, teachers students would introduce me as a speaker of an" Environmental crisis".

This has a significant impact in the loss of interest in general public. That is because we have been conditioned to give importance to economic, social, political and humanitarian issues primarily and then consider the environmental crisis. But the inconvenient  truth behind climate change is that it has an undeniable potential to be categorized as  Social, Economic and a Humanitarian crisis. In other words its a Socioeconomic Humanitarian crisis.  This has to be emphasized and voiced out to the public. The paradigm shift from environmental to humanitarian crisis has an effect on the increase in the interest and enthusiasm of the general public. It sends ripples of subliminal subconscious messages to the public to take precaution and to work towards stopping climate change.

These two misconceptions have to be clearly identified and addressed in order to generate a higher interest of climate change activism and interest in the general public which should ultimately help us as responsible humans to save earth and humanity.