• GladiusB@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    I wonder if that is used intentionally? Like they would have a reason to make a narrative of denial?

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      2 years ago

      It’s because the “fact” the the fossil fuel industry coined the term climate change is false.

      This is the preferred term by scientists, and it has been since before “global warming” became a term.

      • Kaijobu@discuss.tchncs.de
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        2 years ago

        Calling it climate change implies it is of natural change. It belittles the criticality of the human induced influence. The fossil fuel industry knows exactly why they are calling it climate change and not climate crisis. Global warming is also, as much as climate change, scientifically correct, but let’s be honest. Since when does the industry care about scientifical facts? They use that in ill faith.

        • Techmaster@lemmy.world
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          2 years ago

          It’s called climate change because it’s more than global warming. A lot of things are changing, and they’re all bad. To just say global warming would be ignoring all of the other problems.

          • Kaijobu@discuss.tchncs.de
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            2 years ago

            I agree. Global warming is one aspect of many of our current climate crisis. And it will become worse when politics won’t restrict the reign of fossil fuel industries.

        • Rufio@lemm.ee
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          2 years ago

          The fossil fuel industry denied climate change was happening at all for a long time after the term was being used by scientists.