The term "global warming" is out. That has achieved pejorative status. The operative euphemistic phrase is now "climate change".
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Maybe the communists realize that global warming (which was mostly natural anyways) is about to turn into global cooling (again, a natural process). Even the communists realize they cannot say for years "Global warming is destroying the planet and the only thing that can save the world is communism!" and then turn around and say "Global cooling is destroying the planet and the only thing that can save the world is communism!"
"Climate change" is a useful catch-phrase because nature is not static, unlike what the green witch-doctors preach. And now the green witch-doctors are about to ban scientific inquiry about the environment. Who knows, the "progressives" might even ban the discussion of sunspots and we will be back to where we were 500 years ago.
They're hedging all their bets. No matter what happens, whether it be the presence or absence of hurricanes, warm winters or blizzards, floods or droughts, advancing or receding glaciers, ... it all falls under the heading "climate change".