Don't Accept 100% of the Climate Change Story and You Get Labeled a Racist Mish Climate Change Parts Without a doubt climate is changing. There was a move a few years back to change the discussion from "global warming" to the more politically correct meme "climate change" just so no one could reasonably deny it was happening. Depending on one's time frame, global warming is happening too. The questions are why and for how long? Is CO An increase in CO 2 is likely part of the answer but what part? And why the slowdown vs what the models predicted? This mismatch focused attention on a compelling science problem — a problem deserving of scientific scrutiny.