"The correct term is Climate Change - for exactly the reason that Skarpi illustrates. The weather patterns are jerked around from their normal levels, so whether too hot or too cold, it is changing (not just "warming"). Intensifying weather conditions might be the best adjective."

The problem with all this is it fails to address the undeniable fact that the heating of the atmosphere and oceans is global. Focusing on weather patterns in different regions being jerked around, sometimes hotter, sometimes colder, is, unfortunately, grist to the mill of deniers. "Intensifying" may be an aspect but, alone, it does not address rapid and unprecedented temperature rises. Global warming/heating is the most honest way of characterising what's happening.