Did they change the name of global warming to global climate change ?

Question

ok now correct me if I am wrong but did they change the name of global warming to global climate change after they realized that most of the northern United States got record snowfalls. It seems to me that they said global warming then winter came and proved all of the global warming endorsers wrong then as soon as it all melted Al Gore crawled out of his hibernation and started ranting about global warming again?

Answer 1

yes, they can change the name. it's the same meaning. climate change into warmer, earth is warmer. that its.  

Answer 2

I think the name was changed to be more accurate - - GCC will cause greater unpredictability and variation in climate patterns across the globe.  Some places will get warmer on average, some places colders, some places wetter, some places drier, etc.

Answer 3

Yes as they found that the green house gas was not there,so it was a looser. The democrats will do anything to prevent us from drilling.  

Answer 4

No one "changed the name"  but  I love it when the so-called skeptics come up with this particular rant! It truly shows how pathetically ignorant they are.  How so?

Definition: Global warming: a rise in average temperatures GLOBALLY.

Definition: climate change: a prolonged shift in climate weather patterns

Causal relationship: Global warming is a cause--climate change is the effect.

No one "changed any names"--the two terms have been in use for ears (by educated people) and have entirely different meanings.

These skeptics are so stupid and uninformed they don't even know the two terms refer to different tings!

And they want people to take them seriously! LMAO

Answer 5

Since climates change naturally all the time, it was obviously changed to hedge their bets.  That way no matter what happens, they can blame it on fat cats, big oil, big tobacco, corporations, or greed in America.  It reveals the actual source of global warming alarmism, it comes from the political left  

Answer 6

Global warming stopped 10 years ago, we are in a cooling trend.  Yes it is still hotter than most decades of the last 150 years, but the temperature trend is still downwards.  When increased levels of CO2 output occurs during a cooling trend, they had no choice by to fight "climate change" because global warming took a break.  

Answer 7

No.  It was always climate change to scientists.

The term "global warming" was invented by a REPORTER in the 80s for a story.  It caught on, and now both terms are used interchangeably.  But climate change is (and always was) more correct.

Trying to make a big deal about a term made up by a reporter is a sign of the increasing desperation by the deniers, as their arguments have been debunked by scientific proof.  It's very similar to talking about what Al Gore says, when he has nothing to do with the scientific proof of global warming.  Just a smokescreen to cover up their lack of any scientific case.

"correct me if I'm wrong"  You're wrong.

Answer 8

No, you're wrong.

While the two terms are used interchangeably, they mean different things.

When humans burn fossil fuels, we emit carbon that's been trapped for millions of years, which then accumulates in the atmosphere, increasing the greenhouse effect and causing the planet to warm (on average).  This is global warming.

When the planet's temperature increases, it causes the global climate to change.  For example, you get more evaporation which can lead to clouds forming and releasing precipitation more quickly, so you get shifting rain patterns.  That sort of thing is global climate change.

In short, humans cause global warming, which causes global climate change.  Since they're all connected, people use the terms interchangeably, but they're different effects.

Answer 9

Why are you asking this question?

Don't you know that the thought police monitor this website and after the elections they will come around and pick you up to take you to the reeducation camps if you are lucky.

Answer 10

global warming is a farce, and everyone is seeing that now.

Answer 11

No. It's always climate change to scientists, but you can call it Global Warming.

Answer 12

Obfuscation, mostly.

Answer 13

OK, you're wrong so I'll correct you.

The term "climate change" is more inclusive than "global warming", that's why it's often used.  Global warming is only about temperatures, whereas climate change includes the change in precipitation, storms, wind patterns, and any other potential climate related change that we may see in the next few decades.

And FYI, Global warming is a slow (approximately 0.2 C/decade) average increase in the overall sea-surface temperature of the entire planet averaged throughout the year. No one has said there won't be any more winters. We'll continue to have seasons, hot/cold days, storms, etc.

Answer 14

EXACTLY.

When it was getting warmer they called it "global warming" - now that it's not, they blame every change in weather patterns on us, and call it "climate change" as if the climate had never changed before.   "Fluctuations" - that's what the weather has ALWAYS done.   "Don't like the weather in New England?   Wait six hours."    That saying wasn't coined in 2007!

EDIT - and we're not saying "then winter came and proved global warming wrong."   We're saying "then winters went back to being cold again, lakes froze over again, indeed sometimes rivers and harbors did, and Springs were cool and wet and Summers weren't as hot, and that proved that the warming had at least taken a hiatus for no apparent reason."

EDIT 2 - but crabby, the stall IS global.

EDIT 3 - Bob, it was not a "denier" who uttered the famous - or infamous - sentence, "the planet has a fever."

Answer 15

It wasn't really changed, because it was never "named" as such to begin with.  I think scientists are trying to emphasize the climate change aspect rather than warming, because some superficial people think that warming is all it's about, and a warmer planet sounds nicer to them anyway.  The most important change might be the increase in dry areas in mid-latitudes (particularly the Mediterranean climate regime) so calling it climate change makes it more inclusive. Northern areas may very well get increased snowfall during winter in a warmer climate.

It has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING  to do with scientists backing off from their belief, but again, it's because there are a lot of very superficial people that think that one cold snap negates decades of warming and increased CO2.

Answer 16

It was to clarify it to people who say silly and deliberately misleading things like "then winter came and proved all of the global warming endorsers wrong", but some people are just too willfully ignorant of the facts to ever grasp that climate change is an overall global trend and it doesn't mean it's going to be 100 degrees in the winter in Antarctica.