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Alarmists Propose Rebranding ‘Climate Change’ for Greater Shock Value
Breitbart ^ | Nov 29, 2019 | Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.

Posted on 11/30/2019 2:56:29 AM PST by Openurmind

Climate change alarmists are pushing for a change in vocabulary to scare people into taking global warming more seriously, starting with terms like “global meltdown” and “climate collapse.”

Writing for AdAge this week, Aaron Hall argues that in order to get people to “take action” against climate change, “rebranding” is crucial, since people have gotten too used to the idea that climate is changing and need to be shocked into the notion that the world as we know it is ending.

“Is there a better way to convey the urgency of the situation, while also encouraging folks to take action? Could the tools of branding and brand naming create a more resonant, powerful name?” Mr. Hall asks.

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Society
KEYWORDS: globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal
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To: Openurmind
It's the end of the world as we know it,
                  and I feel fine
21 posted on 11/30/2019 4:23:24 AM PST by VeniVidiVici (Democrats are worse than Communists)
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To: Openurmind

Great! Now I can be a climate collapse denier or climate meltdown denier in addition to being a climate change denier, global warming denier, acid rain denier, ozone layer denier and global cooling denier.


22 posted on 11/30/2019 4:26:00 AM PST by cotton1706
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To: FatherofFive

My first thought too. “Climate Wolf”, like in that fable. What was it now? “The little climate boy who cried wolf?


23 posted on 11/30/2019 4:36:50 AM PST by MulberryDraw
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To: Truth29

Indeed. The earth would be much better served if all Climate Nazis offered their bodies as fertilizer for farmlands.


24 posted on 11/30/2019 4:48:02 AM PST by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and so few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: Fireone

Why don’t they just call it what it is...leftist insanity?

...and them what they are: Godless Morons with an agenda.

God has taken care of the Earth for eons. That isn’t good enough anymore? His evil spawn have to take over?


25 posted on 11/30/2019 4:59:42 AM PST by wita (Always and forever, under oath in defense of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.)
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To: Openurmind

Dear psycho libs,

No one believes you want to save anything at all other than your own power.

Really, we aren’t stupid, nor are we a bunch of empty headed children who believe anything our teacher tells else.


26 posted on 11/30/2019 5:08:27 AM PST by chris37 (Where's Hunter?)
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To: Openurmind
Power Grab
27 posted on 11/30/2019 5:42:02 AM PST by Eddie01 (Where is Hunter Hiden? What is Hunter Hiden?)
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To: Openurmind

Their biggest problem is that the “meltdown”, or “collapse” they predicted would have already happened, and it didn’t, even though the media continue to promote the ongoing nonexistent catastrophe.

Pretty hard to take them seriously.


28 posted on 11/30/2019 5:48:36 AM PST by Blue Collar Christian (I'm a nationalist.I'm white.Does that mean I'm racist?)
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To: Openurmind

Give it up. We aren’t buying it.


29 posted on 11/30/2019 5:48:52 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Openurmind

I spent Tx g-ing with two climate nuts. There is no reasoning with them. It’s all tilting at windmills all the time.


30 posted on 11/30/2019 5:51:37 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Openurmind

We used to call them “SEASONS”.


31 posted on 11/30/2019 5:51:38 AM PST by Cvengr ( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
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To: VeniVidiVici
It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine

That's great it starts with an earth quake.

32 posted on 11/30/2019 5:52:57 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Openurmind

Doesn’t faze them that NONE of their calamitous predictions came to pass. None. Zero. Not one. Ever. Period.


33 posted on 11/30/2019 6:03:27 AM PST by TalBlack (Damn right I'll "do something" you fat, balding son of a bitc)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

Back in the day, we were headed into an ice age. Globull warming saved us that terrible fate. Cheers for globull warming! Thank goodness the climate keeps changing every season so winter has cooled off the terrible warming and thus the globull meltdown. Well, the southern hemisphere will have to struggle on for another six months.


34 posted on 11/30/2019 6:15:44 AM PST by bgill
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To: Openurmind

Suggestion:
“The Sky is Falling!!!”


35 posted on 11/30/2019 6:17:41 AM PST by Doctor DNA (retired)
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To: Openurmind

Rebranding? How about “Climate Absolutely Positively This Time For Sure We’re Not Kidding It’s All Over Disaster (if you don’t give us your money)”?


36 posted on 11/30/2019 6:29:50 AM PST by Stosh
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To: Openurmind
So now "global warming" and "global cooling", which the Democrats' newspeak re-named "climate change", have now been renamed “global meltdown” and “climate collapse.”

What'll they think of next?

George Orwell was a prophet.

"Liberalism" was re-named "progressivism". When one newspeak cliché gets so tired it only provokes a yawn, they re-name it, but it's the same old bunkum.

37 posted on 11/30/2019 6:34:30 AM PST by Savage Beast ( The curse of intelligence: having to watch the morons try everything that obviously won't work.)
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To: Stosh

Lol, pretty much...


38 posted on 11/30/2019 6:36:08 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Openurmind
How about "The Boogeyman?" Or "Falling Sky?" Does "Apocalypse" carry too religious an overtone?

I suppose "Exaggerated Redistributionist Fiction" is too long for the headlines ...

39 posted on 11/30/2019 6:46:51 AM PST by IronJack
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To: Openurmind

They change it every few years — for greater impact.

Still, winter is cold and summer is hot, each with variations from mild to severe.

Global meltdown? Climate collapse? In the 60s and 70s it was the hole in the ozone they wanted to ‘close’. Later, it was determined that the hole opens and closes — naturally.

The biggest threat to the planet is these loons who come up with bizarre and dangerous plans to try to change Nature.


40 posted on 11/30/2019 6:57:36 AM PST by TomGuy
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