They stopped calling to “Global Warming”....now opting for the all encompassing term “Climate Change”. That way they can hedge their bets better.
Climate change is so 2020. They've moved on to Climate Emergency now.
Oh yeah. It is the Leftist use of language to control the narrative.
They didn’t like “Liberals” so they changed it to “Progressives”.
They didn’t like “Homosexual” so they changed it to “Gay”.
They didn’t like “Global Warming” so they changed it to “Climate Change”.
They didn’t like the use of the color blue to describe Republicans and red to define Democrats (because “red” is “oh-too-close” to linking Democrats to Communists, which is uncomfortably close to the truth for them) so they contrived back around 1980 in the media to make that switch thinking it wouldn’t be noticed. It was, but they controlled the narrative so it was a fait accompli.
We could go on an on along those lines.
It is one of the things I despise most about the Left, is their use of language to control the narrative.
And they do it deliberately. They changed the lexicon from “Negro” to “Black”. Then, when it suited them, they changed it from “Black” to “African American”. Then, they changed it from “African American” to “People of Color”.
All done to enable them to wall off people they want to isolate, because those people aren’t privy (or don’t care) about “the rules of usage”.
Most substantial, plain-speaking, honest people don’t care about “the rules of usage”. They care about the underlying concept and aren’t as concerned with what the “lexicon du jour” is.
If “vase” describes a vessel meant to hold flowers perfectly well, those down-to-earth people will still call it a “vase”, even if unsubstantial, manipulative people want to call it something else for some purpose.
If there is a cleavage point between Leftists and Conservatives, the twisting of lexicon is a purely Leftist notion, because they really believe that changing the name of a “thing” makes it something else. (We know that a vase is still a vase)
Leftists employ this as a tool to both conceal failure on their part of some kind (the inability to sell “Global Warming” effectively) to using words to keep people they oppose off balance.