The phrase "term climate change" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used in formal contexts to refer to the phenomenon of global warming and the human activities that have caused it. For example, "The environmental committee is examining ways to reduce long-term climate change."
Rich has pointed out that the term "climate change" does not appear in the novel.
And in the medium to long term, climate change is expected to make harvests dramatically worse.
But there's a reason scientists prefer the term "climate change" to "global warming" — not everything is getting warmer.
This March, the state's commissioner for environmental sustainability quit early, claiming the government was advising bureaucrats not to use the term "climate change".
Recent scientific studies indicate that in the long term, climate change is diminishing the potential for the Sierra snowpack to generate enough runoff.
The term "climate change refugee," after all, invokes all manner of political, legal and financial imperatives — not least those arising from a 1951 U.N. convention on refugees.
Most scientists believe that overly warm waters, perhaps from long-term climate change, stressed the lobsters.
Indeed, long-term climate change strategies offer a chance for African countries to leapfrog towards efficient renewable technologies.
Leonardsen, a city planner, belongs to the 10-person team working solely on long-term climate change adaptation, planning ahead to the year 2100.
Meteorologists can now forecast further, allowing seasonal forecasts to be produced along with predictions of the effects of long-term climate change.
One of the paper's authors, Myles Allen noted in The Guardian that the results of the study would make little difference with respect to long-term climate change.
