Liberals: Please explain why the term "Global Warming" is no longer being used by the politicians?

because "Climate Change" is Scientifically more accurate

I would think because the term "Global Warming" is quite misleading as far as what is happening. It implies that a blanket increase in temperature is all we are experiencing. Climate change takes into account the fact that its more than just a temperature issue that we are experiencing right now. Global Warming was an oversimplification and they are trying to show that its more than that.

Global Warming is the marketing/media term.

Global Climate Change is what is happening. The global climate spikes before ice ages.

The ice shelf isn't growing and the globe isn't cooling right now...

Why not ask McCaine? He was one of the forerunners in the discussion during the debates.

But wait, he was a halfbreed anyhow. A Repocrat.

But wait. Aren't all politicians?

My opinion is that global warming was one of several smokescreens the media and candidates used to not have to talk about real issues like the economy. Is it not just a tad funny that every candidate that put their focus on the economy was taken out of the running post haste (Edwards and Romney come to mind).

I wonder how we got our attention taken off of those key issues?

Hmmm...

The terms used are changing to fit the agenda and the facts. When the facts don't support the cause they just change the name of the cause. Two years of record cold weather, record snowfall, few hurricanes and an expanded Artic ice shelf don't fit to well with the term "global warming".

HAHAHA - because the Earth isn't going along with their BS global warming so they call in climate change. As if the climate is supposed to stay the same forever. Dum de dum dum dum!

I had a terrible case of global warming last night. I must have released about a ton of methane into the atmosphere. So I am probably responsible for about a .00001 degree rise in the global temperature. Thank goodness no on in my house smokes.

because not everywhere experiences warming, here in england it is expected to go russian, with the gulf stream stopping due to influx of fresh water into the oceans, however the mean temperature will go up.

it is just more correct to say climate change, and it also includes changes to precipitation which global warming doesn't

mike for you;

"Even if Antarctica was getting cooler, it would not mean the world as a whole isn't warming. Climate models do not predict an even warming of the whole planet: changes in wind patterns and ocean currents can change the way heat is distributed, leading to some parts warming much faster than average, while a few may cool, at least at first.

The overall picture is indisputable: global temperature maps show far more areas are warming than cooling. As warming continues as emissions continue to rise, eventually every part of the world will warm.

So what is happening in Antarctica? There has been uncertainty over exactly how Antarctica's climate is changing. There are few weather stations, most are on the edge rather than in the interior of the continent and records go back just a few decades.

Warming significantly

There is no doubt that the Antarctic Peninsula, which juts out from the mainland of Antarctica towards South America, has warmed significantly. A 2002 study, however, concluded that between 1966 and 2000 the continent's interior cooled.

This study was promptly seized upon as proof that the world is not warming, even though a single example of localised cooling proves no such thing, as the lead author of the 2002 study has tried to point out.

A more recent and more comprehensive study has concluded that in fact Antarctica warmed by 0.5 °C between 1957 and 2006, with especially strong warming in West Antarctica.

Blowing in circles

This does not mean the 2002 study was completely wrong. The latest study also found that for the period 1969 to 2000, there has been slight cooling over East Antarctica.

So what is going on? The cooling is due to a strengthening of the circular winds around the continent, which prevent warmer air reaching its interior. The increased wind speeds seem to be a result of cooling in the upper atmosphere, caused by the hole in the ozone layer above the pole, which is of course the result of chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) pollution.

Confusingly, it appears that one human impact on the climate - the Antarctic ozone hole - is currently compensating for another, global warming. If the ozone layer recovers over the decades as expected, the circular winds could weaken, resulting in rapid warming across the entire continent.

This raises the question of what is happening to Antarctica's ice sheets, which hold enough water to raise sea level by a catastrophic 61 metres, should it all melt. Contrary to what you might expect, the third IPPC report predicted that global warming would most likely lead to a thickening of the ice sheet over the next century, with increased snowfall compensating for any melting cause by warming.

Gravity revelations

Finding out what is actually happening to the ice is not easy. Radar measurements of the height of the ice over parts of the continent suggest that the huge East Antarctic ice sheet grew slightly between 1992 and 2003.

A more recent study based on satellite measurements of gravity over the entire continent suggests that while the ice sheets in the interior of Antarctica are growing thicker, even more ice is being lost from the peripheries. The study concluded that there was a net loss of ice between 2002 and 2005, adding 0.4 millimetres per year to sea levels (see Gravity reveals shrinking Antarctic ice). Most of the ice was lost from the smaller West Antarctic ice sheet.

Greenland, whose ice cap holds enough water to raise sea levels by 7 metres, is also losing ice overall.

The IPCC's latest prediction for sea level rise - 0.2 to 0.6 metres by 2100 - takes this ice loss into account but it is based on the assumption that the rate of ice loss will remain constant. Many researchers think this is unrealistic and that the rate of ice loss will accelerate, which means that sea level could rise much faster than predicted. But no one knows for sure what will happen and the prediction of a net gain of ice in Antarctica could yet turn out to be correct."

It was called global warming, until the point where people noticed the globe wasn't warming. They then switched to climate change.

You can see from your answers how easy it was to convince the dullards that it was always called climate change.

Because ignorant people never realized cold weather abnormalities can occur due to the warming of the planet. Hence, to dumb down the term for everyone, "climate change", replaced "global warming."