Forests and carbon capture

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The reason it went from "Global Warming" to "Climate Change" is because it gives less room for denirs to point at things like the 2008 storms or this year's midwest deep freeze and say "Where's your global warming now?" In the particular case of this year, it's the arctic stratosphere being almost 100 degrees warmer than usual (from somewhere around -70 to +30 F from my memory of the article, which of course I can't find to link now dammit) and pushing that cold air out of place. See also the XKCD strip with the temperature graph showing how the global temperature has increased more since 1900 and the following wide-scale industrialization than in the previous 10,000 years.