Climate change was adopted because global warming doesn’t intuitively line up with winters being much colder on top of the average temperature being higher.
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WhatsThePoint@lemmy.world 2 months agoThe reason it’s overwhelmingly called “climate change” instead of global warming now is because of language change pushed by billionaire foundations. The Koch network specifically focus grouped and created the term change. Whether we want it considered left wing or not, the billionaire backed right has made such statements left wing.
TWeaK@lemm.ee 2 months ago
fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Is this really true?
Idiots would walk around on cold days saying “see - this global warming stuff is bullshit”.
Climate change describes the danger much more aptly.
WhatsThePoint@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You should read “Dark Money” by Jane Mayer. Goes into it and a lot of other very eye opening stuff about how the billionaire foundations changed this country.
loobkoob@kbin.social 2 months ago
I do think "global warming" struggles to convince some more simple people anyway, unfortunately. Because while the average temperature of the globe is increasing and causing the changes in climate that we're seeing, I've come across far too many comments from people saying things like "global warming must be a myth because it snows more than it used to" and things themselves smarter than all climate scientists combined for that observation.
Of course, those same people probably think global warming is good because they like their summer holidays so perhaps their opinions shouldn't matter much either way!