First they were honest and only spoke of “global warming”, because although the models had holes in them like swiss cheese, “catastrophic warming” is what they predicted.
Then the “warming” did not manifest much in the last decade, so they switched tactics to calling the whole issue “climate change” - as if prior to modern times the climate never changed.
Lately “climate change” having no direct meaning to anyone whose local weather is not changing much (most people), the issue has morphed into “weather extremes”.
However, the only thing that sustains the new climate bogeyman is not science with regard to the number of extreme weather events - such as hurricanes, typhoons and and tornadoes (which have not increased in number in recent years) - but the “salesmen” of the alarmists, the media, the global media, making sure - unlike in the past - every little blip in the weather anywhere is blown up and broadcast to the smallest hamlets in the world, and not due to science but the reach of the media, little people every where can honestly say they were not hearing reports like that from far away when they were kids, so something certainly has “changed”.
I received anxious inquiries from friends overseas (S.East Asia) inquiring if everyone here was O.K. in the “extreme cold” we have here in the U.S. Northeast.
I wrote back telling them: “It’s called winter.”