Quote Originally Posted by Neo Emolga View Post
I still feel as though the words "climate change" seem too mild and don't really capture the severity of the situation at stake.
So random political fun fact for you, the term "climate change" was actually coined by a man named Frank Luntz, who I actually met when I was interning in DC. He's a political strategist who gets paid to coin terms like "climate change" and "estate tax" in order to make things sound more or less severe than they actually are. Much bigger industry there than you might think.

TLDR he got paid by a previous political administration to find a "less alarming" term for Global Warming, which lead to the phrase "Climate Change". He has said on the record he believes it to be one of his biggest mistakes, since the issue is much more severe than politicians initially thought and now people aren't taking it seriously because the term for it doesn't sound alarming enough.