[melling]

Is this a joke? Sounds like some bureaucratic decision where you'd create a committee to come up with New Coke. Most people aren't going to care.

[morenoh149]

You'd be surprised. Yes it must be grounded in soundness but a cool name never hurts.

[tomelders]

I bet the folks who coined the term "global warming" sure wish they'd thought of "climate change" first.

[GFK_of_xmaspast]

You do know the history of those terms and the replacement of one by the other, right?

[evanb]

Science Sparring Society had an interesting (and short) episode on this recently:

http://www.acmescience.com/2015/02/sss-14-global-warming-vs-...