How "climate change" beat "global warming"

James S Murray
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The pre-eminence of the term climate change has nothing to do with doubts over climate science and everything to do with political spin

Several weeks ago a comment was posted on a BusinessGreen article that mused on why "climate change" had replaced the term "global warming". It was, of course, all part of a global conspiracy...

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