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Because dishonest people took every cold spell and said "Ha, scientists said the globe was warming! This proves them wrong." even though anyone with a very basi
by mikeyouse 5y ago
Because dishonest people took every cold spell and said "Ha, scientists said the globe was warming! This proves them wrong." even though anyone with a very basic comprehension would understand that increasing the amount of energy in the system through global mean temperature increases could indeed lead some areas to be occasionally cooler.
In any case, the IPCC has been using "climate change" since at least 1990;
https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar1/wg1/ https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar1/wg1/
- blurker 5y agoAlso "climate change" is a more accurate name to describe the wider issue, imo. Climates around the world are changing in many ways, not just getting warmer everywhere. Some of the effects of climate change will be some areas getting a lot drier or wetter and even some places getting colder.