Conservative/Libertarian Environmentalist Unite!!!

[Woodsprite]

Originally Posted by Sonoran Na'vi

"Climate change" has been used prior to 2008. The current US Global Change Research Program was called the US Climate Change Science Program from 2002 to 2008. Some say the term "climate change" was made popular by the second Bush Administration due to the term "climate change" being a little less alarming that the term "global warning."

Well I did not know that. Thank you. I guess I just don't remember hearing that phrase widely used until recently.

[Sonoran Na'vi]

Originally Posted by Woodsprite

Well I did not know that. Thank you. I guess I just didn't ever remember hearing that phrase widely used until recently.

That's probably the case. The phrase "climate change" seems to have become rather popular recently in the colloquial sense. I never really cared for the term "global warming" because it is a bit misleading and can cause distraction from the topic.

[Iluvrien]

Just a note as to the timing of "climate change". I started studying for a masters degree in 2001, a component of that was climate science. It was taught to us as "climate change" not global warming.

Now that was as a part of the scientific community, I cannot attest to when it came into common usage however.