text: **1. Introduction**
  
  The public’s distinct understanding of the cause and eﬀect of the global climate issue is an obstacle 
  to joint mitigation actions. In addition to a diversity of views co-existing in the public discourse [1,2], 
  previous studies noticed that the public had even failed to reach an agreement on whether “climate 
  change” or “global warming” is the most appropriate deﬁnition of the global climate concern [3–5]. 
  According to the deﬁnition provided by [6], global warming describes global climate issues as 
  a continuous increase in the average temperature of Earth’s surface due to anthropogenic emissions 
  of greenhouse gases, whereas climate change includes not only temperature rise but also a range of 
  
  Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health**2020**, 17, 1062; doi:10.3390/ijerph17031062  www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph 