TheRealMafoo said:
Why is "I don't know" always considered bad when you ask someone of authority? The reason Climate Change (updated from Global Warming because they were wrong) is such a hot topic, is because governments are spending billions of dollars with real world impacts, who don't even know what the problem is yet. |
Climate change wasn't updated from global warming because it was wrong...
The average global temperatures are stil predicted to rise, and in actuality, the observed increases are at the higher ends of the increases that have been predicted. The globe is certainly warming.
The reason it changed from global warming, is because climate change doesnt just cause warming, it also causes increases in extreme weather events including freak cold snaps. So in a lot of places there have been abnormally cold periods and so stupid people are like, oh its cold, the world isnt warming at all. Even though on average the earth still is warming. So it was actually changed to avoid the issue of uninformed people misinterpretting what it meant.
