@The L: "No reputable scientist refers to it as anything other than global climate change."
Who the fuck told you that bullshit?
Global warming, elevational range shifts, and lowland biotic attrition in the wet tropics.
Colwell, R. K., Brehm, G., Cardelus, C. L., Gilman, A. C. & Longino, J. T., Science 322, 258261.
Probabilistic assessment of sea level during the last interglacial stage
Robert E. Kopp1, Frederik J. Simons, Jerry X. Mitrovica, Adam C. Maloof & Michael Oppenheimer, Nature 462, 863-867 (17 December 2009).
"[...] The results highlight the long-term vulnerability of ice sheets to even relatively low levels of sustained global warming."
Natural Climate Variability and Global Warming
Battarbee, R. W. & Binney, H. E. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008).
El Niño in a changing climate
Sang-Wook Yeh, Jong-Seong Kug, Boris Dewitte, Min-Ho Kwon, Ben P. Kirtman & Fei-Fei Jin, Nature 461, 511-514 (24 September 2009).
"[...] When restricted to the six climate models with the best representation of the twentieth-century ratio of CP-El Niño to EP-El Niño, the occurrence ratio of CP-El Niño/EP-El Niño is projected to increase as much as five times under global warming."
Pacific decadal oscillation hindcasts relevant to near-term climate prediction
Takashi Mochizukia, Masayoshi Ishiia, Masahide Kimotoc, Yoshimitsu Chikamotoc, Masahiro Watanabec, Toru Nozawad, Takashi T. Sakamotoa, Hideo Shiogamad, Toshiyuki Awajia, Nozomi Sugiuraa, Takahiro Toyodaa, Sayaka Yasunakac, Hiroaki Tatebea and Masato Moric, (PNAS 10.1073/pnas.0906531107).
"[...] In a near-term climate prediction covering the period up to 2030, we require knowledge of the future state of internal variations in the climate system such as the PDO as well as the global warming signal. [...] On decadal timescales, SAT changes due to internal climate variability are comparable to those associated with global warming in magnitude"
Global sea level linked to global temperature
Martin Vermeer, and Stefan Rahmstorf, (PNAS December 2009, 106:21527-21532).
"[...] If our method presents a reasonable approximation of the future sea-level response to global warming, then for a given emission scenario sea level will rise approximately three times as much by 2100 as the projections (excluding rapid ice flow dynamics) of the IPCC AR4 (2) have suggested."