Why has 'global warming' turned into 'climate change'?

[Derek]

Because the world is getting cooler now.

[Steve]

Because warming leads to changes the climate.


It's not a terribly difficult connection to make.

[Romare]

Frankly, because too many Americans are uneducated on the subject and they kept posting things like "Why is it getting colder today when we're supposed to have global warming?" If they would only do a little research, they would find out that global warming both makes the planet colder and warmer at different times in different places. So the phrase "climate change" makes it more clear so that these uneducated people will stop posting stuff and blogging stuff they don't bother to understand.

[The New 10242]

because it's a natural cycle, not a single phenomenon.

[Portside]

Doesn't 'climate change' occur with each season?

[Meister]

I guess this is one of those areas where no one has read the real literature.

In the real literature--not the simplified stuff you bozo conservatives like to read, but the actual climate workups and projections--the term "global warming" has never been used. "Local warming" in coastal and polar areas HAS been used. But of course, "local warming" can be "global"...


The terms are not interchanged. "Global Warming" is a part of the general symptomology of a whole series of alterations,
but the term itself exists only in the popular press and people's imaginations, the closest valid terminology often referred to is "induced climate change". And there really isn't any doubt.

Listening to bytes on radio or television has nothing to do with the reality of the overall systemic modification.

The geographical surveys I read take note of the fact that some inland areas, for short intervals, are going to get colder. That data is fifteen or twenty years old. I know none of the neo-Nazi Republicans has ever mentioned it, but oddly enough, Gore HAS.

The oil companies and other corrupt conservatives keep hiring flaks and quacks and loons to say what they want them to, but they keep fading and being exposed.

[mckenziecalhoun]

NASA just released their findings. All the planets are warming. It's due to sun activity. The conspiracy just popped. Thank goodness.

[shootsmyownfood]

Each time they change the phrase Al Gore makes another 100 million.Just how much does he need to retire?

[Filli]

Obama

Al gore

[Jamie]

because at first the temperature went up and then it went down so they needed to change it so supporters would not get questions on it
what a hoax,yes we need to take care of this planet but wow to suggest we are doomed if the temperature goes up or down by 1 degree is just nonsense