Stuff like that is why the messaging switched from "global warming" to "global climate change". Both are valid, they just refer to different things: Global wa

Stuff like that is why the messaging switched from "global warming" to "global climate change". Both are valid, they just refer to different things: Global warming - The tiny increase in the global average temperature, as a representation of how much energy is in the system. The average person has no real idea what this means. Global climate change - The knock-on effects of that increase in energy, referring to more localized effects like larger hurricanes, temperature swings, destabilization of the polar vortex, and so on.