It was always global warming, its just that when it was a cold winter people would say "Oh So iTs GlObAl WaRmInG". Hence climate change, because that covers the other stuff that may or may not happen.
I think it’s global warming when it’s warming, climate change when things are different, and atmospheric stagnation where things haven’t changed.
Yes, but that unfortunate choice of labeling is what allows those who are less scientifically intelligent to say things to all their friends like, “Look at all this snow, ‘global warming’ right!” As if that is some sort of slam dunk against a “climate agenda”. Even when the trend is for worsening storm seasons, more and more wild temperature swings, and the increasing amount of land burned by wildfires, there are plenty who will still just claim it is “bad luck” and a natural process because “we don’t have weather data to go back millions of years”. A lot of that response was the direct result of the choice to call it “global warming” instead of the more accepted (at the time) “climate change”, which is what I think they were pointing out.