I don't see how it makes it more difficult. Isn't a complete misunderstanding from the casual observer the reason that it was name changed from "global warming" to "climate change"

let me put it this way (simple experiment)
take two glasses with equal amount of room temperature water, add an ice cube (of the same size) to each of the glasses. Now take a hot soldering iron and put it on the side of the ice of one of the glasses (we will call this glass B and the other glass A). wait a minute.

what happens?

the water in glass b will feal colder because the added heat means that more of the ice melted and added more cold water to the room temperature water.

global warming will mean some places might get more "wet" others more "dry" some places at some time will get colder other places at other times will get warmer.

The term global warming describes what is happening planet wise, the term climate change describes what happens locally.






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