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All IPCC definitions taken from Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Working Group I Contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Annex I, Glossary, pp. 941-954. Cambridge University Press.
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"the globe doesn't seem to be warming up very much"
"That term now, because the globe doesn't seem to be warming up very much, has turned to climate change , and also because of some kind of falsely manipulated facts concerning global warming, the term has gone to climate change."