Global warming fell out of favor, while true: morr energy in the system, higher average temperatures; it confuses some people.
I.e. more energy means more extreme extremes. So cold events can also get worse and more frequent. To a lay person that's a contradiction.
Climate change gained favor as a more lay friendly name.
Also there was some idiot US congressman/senator who brought a snowball into the house as evidence that global warming was a hoax.