Not make it sound like you assume , it is a fact that an adviser ( Frank Luntz ) advised years ago to use the name climate change instead of global warming and reasons why.You make it sound like using climate change is just a psychological "trick". It is a better way to say it but, like I said, what is happening is far more then just a warming. It also states, truthfully, that even though the actions of mankind have influenced it to some degree, the planet has had many climate changes that occurred well before mankind existed. Think about how at one point about a third of the North American continant was covered with glacers. At that point global warming might have sounded like a great idea. It was always cold out during that time. The earth naturally changes and even though it is probably true that our actions have, perhaps, been speeding things up a little, it is an absolutely natural event. Being such we either have to find a way to adjust to it or parish. It may be scarry but it is also factual and we also need to get our collective heads out of our butt and start to take positive action. The planet will be around a long time, it is human kind that will be gone. The earth is not in trouble, we are.
It was predicted years ago that we were going to see a return to a more wild side of weather due to natural cycles and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to have noticed that weather has been far more threatening then in the past. We cannot change the weather, we can only adapt to it and make it livable by adjusting ourselves to do what is needed to survive.