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"Global Warming" isn't an irrefutable fact, as even the IPCC accept that for the last 10 years it has been cooling. It's way more complex than just "warming".
"Climate Change" is an irrefutable fact. The climate is changing. The climate, however, has always been changing. There's nothing wrong with that. The earth has gone through bigger climate changes than this before humans came along. What demands action is that we as a species have to somehow cope with it.
The "climate chaos" camp behaves like a religion. It claims that it has the only truth, and will happily use dodgy science, spurious computer models, ignore inconvenient data and create masses of propaganda to support its arguments. This noise obscures the real science. And of course the people who refute their theories are written off as crackpots and corrupted.
And I am sure exactly the same charge can be levelled at the other side.
Each side is corrupted by the desire for political power and financial gain. Organisations like Greenpeace, for example, have a political agenda that has little to do with stepping lightly upon the planet and a lot to do with anti-capitalism. They have a vested interest, and a successful track record, in blaming the industrialised west for causing climate change, when in fact the causes are hotly disputed.
I say the causes don't matter, because it cannot be stopped. Therefore governments should stop spending money on trying to stop something that cannot be stopped and spend it on finding out what kind of climate we are heading into and making sure we can live in it.