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I guess this dates me as an old guy, but it seems like there could be an interesting back story for the terminalology change from "Global Warming" to "Climate C
by xrange 12y ago
I guess this dates me as an old guy, but it seems like there could be an interesting back story for the terminalology change from "Global Warming" to "Climate Change". Who was the group that first started advocating for this? When did it first appear in print in a scientific journal? When did it first appear in a newspaper or on a TV show? When did it first in a government or UN document? When did politicians start using it?
- thaumaturgy 12y agoThere's a paper by Alan Robock titled "Internally and Externally Caused Climate Change", published in the journal of the American Meteorology Society in June 1978, and an earlier paper, "Climate Change Over the Polar Ocean" by Vowinckel and Orvig, published in Meteorology in January 1966, and, best yet, an even earlier paper, "The Carbon Dioxide Theory of Climatic Change", by Plass, published by Johns Hopkins University ca 1955 and funded by the US Office of Naval Research. The latter paper can be read here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2153-3490.1956.tb01206.x/abstract http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2153-3490.1956.... (there is a "get pdf" link on the right.)
- xrange 12y agoHere's a Google n-gram of the two terms: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=climate+change%2Cglobal+warming&year_start=1960&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=1&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cclimate%20change%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cglobal%20warming%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=climate+change... ...I wonder if there is a similar tool for other types of publications besides books.