Myth: Climate change was invented when global warming ceased

Scientists came up with the term ‘climate change’ to cover for the fact that the world stopped warming in 1998.

Fact:

Climate sceptics have this completely the wrong way round. The term ‘climate change’ is actually much older than ‘global warming’ in the scientific literature. It dates back to the 1850s, and refers to “changes in a particular climate variable over a given area.” ‘Global warming’, by contrast, refers to changes in the Earth’s overall temperature. It is just one of various types of climate change. The term was first used in the 1960s but was popularised by Professor Wallace Broecker in a 1975 article in the journal Science.