I guess this is one of those areas where no one has read the real literature.
In the real literature--not the simplified stuff you bozo conservatives like to read, but the actual climate workups and projections--the term "global warming" has never been used. "Local warming" in coastal and polar areas HAS been used. But of course, "local warming" can be "global"...
The terms are not interchanged. "Global Warming" is a part of the general symptomology of a whole series of alterations,
but the term itself exists only in the popular press and people's imaginations, the closest valid terminology often referred to is "induced climate change". And there really isn't any doubt.
Listening to bytes on radio or television has nothing to do with the reality of the overall systemic modification.
The geographical surveys I read take note of the fact that some inland areas, for short intervals, are going to get colder. That data is fifteen or twenty years old. I know none of the neo-Nazi Republicans has ever mentioned it, but oddly enough, Gore HAS.
The oil companies and other corrupt conservatives keep hiring flaks and quacks and loons to say what they want them to, but they keep fading and being exposed.