Worth noting that it's always been called climate change, and global warming was a term preferred by deniers to sew confusion and deniability. > Yet the most i

Worth noting that it's always been called climate change, and global warming was a term preferred by deniers to sew confusion and deniability. > Yet the most interesting findings come from looking at data from the Heartland Institute. In fact, the thinktank used the two terms with roughly the same frequency until 2013, when we finally see a decoupling as the use of global warming dropped while the use of climate change remained constant. > This shows that “global warming” was widely used by climate change deniers over this 30-year period. Perhaps this is because the phrase is relatively specific, which allowed them to contrast it with simple arguments like saying that the planet cannot be warming as it’s cold outside. https://theconversation.com/there-is-no-evidence-that-global-warming-was-rebranded-as-climate-change-133213 https://theconversation.com/there-is-no-evidence-that-global...