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Re: Reader: Secretive UN Legal Conference Want....

OK question... does anyone remember when exactly the term " global warming" got changed into " climate change". Does anyone know which executive body made that decision?

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Around 2003 but it didn't catch on for a few years.

In a confidential 2003 memo, Luntz asserted that the Administration and conservatives should stop using the term “global warming” because it was too frightening:

It’s time for us to start talking about “climate change” instead of global warming and “conservation” instead of preservation.1) “Climate change” is less frightening than “global warming”. As one focus group participant noted, climate change “sounds like you’re going from Pittsburgh to Fort Lauderdale.” While global warming has catastrophic connotations attached to it, climate change suggests a more controllable and less emotional challenge.

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The Intergovernmental Panel on CLIMATE CHANGE, the IPCC, was founded in 1988.

"Global warming" refers to the rise in heat content of the Earth. "Climate Change" refers to that and the other effects too: such as changing weather patterns.

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