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Global climate change is not the "elephant in the room". (Original Post) Atticus Jul 2022 OP
It is the room. We are the soon to extinct mammoth. cbabe Jul 2022 #1
I think we should once and for all stop calling it "climate change" and start calling it what it is: KPN Jul 2022 #2

KPN

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2. I think we should once and for all stop calling it "climate change" and start calling it what it is:
Sun Jul 31, 2022, 01:09 PM
Jul 2022

global warming. The change is the warming — and it’s due to the buildup of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere on large part from human activity; principally the use of carbon based fuels.

Climate change is the term that deniers have agreed to using as it aligns better with their idiotic argument that it’s the natural cyclical pattern of climate change over time. It’s not!

Every time we say “climate change”, “global climate change” we reinforce their belief in that absurd, head in the sand argument.

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