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Climate Change is a reaction to people going, "There's still snow" or "There's a polar vortex in Texas" and using cold weather (driven by Climate Change) to arg
by ihumanable 5y ago
Climate Change is a reaction to people going, "There's still snow" or "There's a polar vortex in Texas" and using cold weather (driven by Climate Change) to argue against Global Warning.
It makes sense as when most lay people think of "warming" in connection with the "global climate" they likely think "weather" and the idea that it will be 2-3 degrees "warmer" out doesn't seem like a big deal. 68F feels pretty close to 71F, no biggie.
At a planet wide scale though, this is a huge amount of energy and causes a massive change in the climate.
There's a lot of "greenwashing" in the world, but the term is generally applied to corporations that use "a form of marketing spin in which green PR and green marketing are deceptively used to persuade the public that an organization's products, aims and policies are environmentally friendly." The term "Climate Change" is the preferred term from the scientific community and isn't promoted by corporations to make themselves seem more green.