Widespread Atmospheric Volatility (WAV) may be used as a functional synonym for global warming, climate change, etc.
WAV includes all broad meteorological changes and weather events such as unseasonal temperatures, droughts, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, etc., highlighting that what is typically known as climate change affects locales variably.
After the warmest year on record, devastating wildfires, increasing hurricane frequency and severity, Widespread Atmospheric Volatility (WAV)is impossible to deny even among the most staunch science deniers.