Yes and no. I know a lot of people pushing for long-term solutions who use "global warming" rather than climate change, just because it's the given term. Also because that's the term Al Gore coined/popularized. That said, "climate change" isn't gaining steam in the conservative base for precisely that reason, yes.
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Date: 2014-01-23 08:09 pm (UTC)But, yes, definitely, to being good shorthand!