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Originally Posted by mrblanche 
...as some experts have pointed out, a climate change almost always helps someone as much as it hurts someone else. The mastodons die, but the bison take over.
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Yes, but what if this time
we're the mastodons?

But seriously: calling it climate change isn't an "out" -- it's just a correction. In the early days of concern, it was primarily the ozone depletion at the poles that was being discussed, and that
does cause warming (witness the scary-fast melting of the Arctic ice cap), which is why it got that name. But that polar warming, in turn, causes much more complicated changes in climate and weather around the world. Hence the switch from "global warming" to the more accurate "climate change."