Perceptive.
Thirty or forty years ago it was the "coming ice age". Now "global warming" is debunked as a natural occurring phenomenon. "Climate change" is just as ludicrous a term. However, since global warming is just a matter of plotting temperature over time and place, I suppose climate change, impossible to quantify, is, thus, the perfect victim for whackos.
Climate change is much more encompassing and emotional: hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, tsunamis (I know, no weather there, but that doesn't matter to whackos), El Nino, floods, drought, landslides, avalanches, forest fires. The permutations are almost infinite.
Notice that the grand victims of environmental elitists have no voice; they do no complaining: trees, owls, environment, ecosystems, pets, water, climate. These "constituents" vote neither yea nor nae.
yitbos
You got it. "Climate change" is virtually meaningless so of course it can be defined to mean anything. Are there many major hurricanes one year? Climate change. Are there few hurricanes the next year? Again, climate change. Is the weather too cold? Climate change. Is the weather too warm? Climate change. Is the weather just right? Climate change. No one knows what climate change is but the cure for climate change is always socialism.