I used to think the more innocuous-sounding phrase, “climate change” was (successfully) promoted over the term “global warming” by fossil fuel propagandists. Cl

I used to think the more innocuous-sounding phrase, “climate change” was (successfully) promoted over the term “global warming” by fossil fuel propagandists. Climates change as a matter of course and it would suit the fossil fuel industry to downplay the anthropogenic escalation of the “greenhouse effect”. However, this article concurs with your explanation: https://www.dictionary.com/e/new-words-surrounding-climate-change/ https://www.dictionary.com/e/new-words-surrounding-climate-c... > Climate change is a term that better encompasses the myriad longterm changes to the climate that can be brought on by an increase in Earth’s average temperature. These effects include more heat waves and rising sea levels as polar ice caps melt, but they also include extreme cold, droughts, floods, fires, and catastrophic storms.