This is a myth. Both climate change and global warming have been used in climate science for a long time, including during periods where the earth was unequivocally warming. In fact, climate change is the older and universally more common term. They mean different things, and are used as such.
I have literally never heard this term before. For what it’s worth, it gets about a tenth of the results on google scholar that climate change does, and about a fifth of the results that global warming does.
Given to exaggeration? Really? I wasn’t aware that peer-reviewed literature had the tendency to allow for such flights of fancy. :rolleyes: Care to provide actual solid examples?
See, the problem here, above all else? You’re just wrong. There have been numerous cost-benefit analyses on curbing global warming. In every case, we know that the effects of the earth warming are going to be disastrous. There’s not a whole lot of “maybe”. There’s no “we cannot be sure this is real”. To claim such is to completely ignore the evidence available.
Funny story about that. Regardless of how those on the right bitched and moaned about it, the loan program turned a profit. Instead of, you know, the significant losses that were expected when it was proposed. See, when you give out a whole bunch of loans to various businesses in the hopes that they produce a good product, some of them will be losers. Some will default. Especially when dealing with a new, relatively unproven field. But all in all? The program was a massive success. Trying to paint it as a failure now is just flat-out wrong.
1990 called, it wants its smug assurance that renewables can’t work back. Solar is cheap now and only looking to get cheaper. They already produce around 7% of Germany’s total energy and that trend doesn’t seem to be stopping. Maybe it was twenty years away twenty years ago, but that is simply not the case any more.
What? No other cable network is so explicitly and clearly anti-science. What are you even talking about? With regards to climate change, FOX is clearly worse than any other cable network. It’s not even debatable at this point. FOX is the modern equivalent of that one news source that claims that the earth is flat, while every other source has a slightly different take on the earth being spherical. It’s not perfect, but it beats the hell out of “global warming is a scam”.