I'm so old, I remember when it was called "global warming"

Then again, I’m also so old that I remember when Scientific American was a legitimate publication.

Scientific American colludes with other media to switch from “climate change” to “climate emergency”

Scientific American, a previously venerated scientific publication, has decided it will magnify the “climate emergency” message that the politicos in Washington want to spread.  Out of the nearly 7 million scientists in the United States, it cherry-picked 13,000 to assert that they all agree: “We Are Living in a Climate Emergency, and We’re Going to Say So::

Scientific American has agreed with major news outlets worldwide to start using the term “climate emergency” in its coverage of climate change. 

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“The media’s response to COVID-19 provides a useful model.” Guided by science, journalists have described the pandemic as an emergency, chronicled its devasting impacts, called out disinformation and told audiences how to protect themselves (with masks and social distancing, for example).

The central control had to abandon global warming when pesky things like snowfalls kept occurring in England and the arctic ocean stayed stubbornly iced over, so they moved to “climate change”. That was a wonderfully flexible term because they could put all weather events — cold snaps, heat waves, droughts, torrential rains, etc. into it and say it all proved the need for increased state power over the lumpen proletariat.

But even that wasn’t enough — they wanted more control, faster, so they’ve upped the ante.