As Tom Toles says in a column today:
First it was called the Greenhouse Effect, then Global Warming, then Climate Change. Each accurate enough, as far as that goes, but all woefully inadequate at conveying the catastrophe we’ve been creating.
The short column eloquently describes the extreme weather that scientists have warned us to expect with climate change, but best of all Toles proposes a new phrase/image to dramatize the disconnect that is characteristic of climage change.
Climate Rupture: