2nd April 2009, 9:11 PM
Weltall Wrote:It was Global Cooling until the late 80s. It was Global Warming until maybe four years ago. Today it's just Global Climate Change, an admission that no one really has any idea what's going on, and this vague blanket term will explain to the mindless masses why climate is no longer the entirely predictable and perfectly-structured phenomena it was before the internal combustion engine came along and fucked everything up.
No, the world on a whole is warming, so "global warming" is not wrong. The issue is that not everywhere is going to warm up, and not consistently. Also, more wild, unpredictable weather is a part of it as well. So, it's "Climate Change" -- to note those issues, for people who find the concept of "warming" confusing when their region cools (as Europe would, dramatically, if global climate change stopped the Gulf Stream).
But, in a great many areas of the globe, "warming" is what's happening, and the effects are going to be disastrous. Still, 'Climate Change' is most definitely the better term, to better explain the issue so that fewer people will be fooled like deniers like you.
Oh, and climates are never predictable, that's for sure. But scientists have put a lot of effort into trying to model it as good as possible, and the results are conclusive.
(And it wasn't the car that started the whole thing -- it was the steam engine, actually. So yeah, blame Britain for it if you want. :))