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The New Language of Climate Change (the latest strategy to dupe deniers)
Politico ^ | 1/27/19 | BRYAN BENDER

Posted on 01/27/2019 4:56:23 PM PST by Libloather

PHOENIX - Leading climate scientists and meteorologists are banking on a new strategy for talking about climate change: Take the politics out of it.

That means avoiding the phrase “climate change,” so loaded with partisan connotations as it is. Stop talking about who or what is most responsible. And focus instead on what is happening and how unusual it is - and what it is costing communities.

**SNIP**

The hope is to persuade the small but powerful minority that stands in the way of new policies to mitigate climate change’s worst long-term effects - as well as the people who vote for them - that something needs to be done or their own livelihoods and health will be at stake.

The new language taking root is meant to instill this sense of urgency about what is happening in ways to which everyday citizens can relate - without directly blaming it on human activity: The spring blossoms keep coming earlier; seasonal allergies are worsening and lasting longer; extreme heat is upending the kids’ summer camp schedule; crops are drying up or washing away at alarming rates.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Politics; Weather
KEYWORDS: climatechange; climatechangehoax; deniers; fake; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; hoax; newspeak
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To: Libloather

They can’t polish a turd no matter how hard they try.


21 posted on 01/27/2019 5:47:24 PM PST by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: Libloather

When they switched from Gore-Bull Warming (because it wasn’t warming) to Climate Change, they seriously underestimated the number who know that the climate has always changed.


22 posted on 01/27/2019 5:50:05 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: All

Just like any small time conman practicing on the sidewalk of the big city.

If the suckers catch on to the scheme, they don’t change the scheme, they just change their patter.


23 posted on 01/27/2019 5:50:34 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: Libloather

L8r


24 posted on 01/27/2019 5:52:44 PM PST by preacher ( Journalism no longer reports news, they use news to shape our society.)
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To: Libloather
Take the politics out of it.

Take the heartland out of it and regulate the cities where the socialists have all the votes they need. 80% of pollution is generated on behalf of high spend city socialists so don't sweat the remaining 20%.

25 posted on 01/27/2019 5:56:00 PM PST by Reeses (A journey of a thousand miles begins with a government pat down.)
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To: Libloather
So they'll be rolling out new experts to lash us with something like...
"Leading experts, such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, say too many males will be born, snails will get slimier, beer will disappear, it will be hot at Disneyland in the summer, and Coca-Cola Inc. won't have the water needed to make our favorite soda."

26 posted on 01/27/2019 5:58:28 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: MAGAthon

Where’s the Goebbels photo when you need it?


27 posted on 01/27/2019 5:59:01 PM PST by xp38
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To: Libloather

Bkmrk.


28 posted on 01/27/2019 6:05:39 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: Libloather

Re-packaging the branding.


29 posted on 01/27/2019 6:07:01 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: Libloather

Not scientists and meteorologists.

They know better than to swallow that hogwash.

Activists and NWO types do.


30 posted on 01/27/2019 6:07:26 PM PST by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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To: headstamp 2

I come from Alabama
With a banjo on my knee
I’m going to Louisiana,
My true love for to see.

It rained all night the day I left
The weather it was dry
The sun so hot, I froze to death
Susannah, don’t you cry.


31 posted on 01/27/2019 6:08:26 PM PST by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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To: Libloather

#1. Some newer scientists and meteorologists won’t be getting any pension after the end of the world in 12 years because they haven’t been on the job long enough, and the others who do have enough pension time will be dead. So who cares what happens to them? I don’t.

I’m investing in parka and boot manufacturing companies/stocks as well as natural gas/oil companies. Screw pensions; I’ll take stock dividends, in hard “cold cash”.


32 posted on 01/27/2019 6:08:58 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Lurkinanloomin
We're actually in a cooler than average phase. If the earth warms, we'd just be going back to normal for the planet.

Say, aren't the folks who claim scientists believe in global warming the same ones who tell us that scientists believe in evolution?

There's no problem, life will then evolve to adapt to the change. Simple.

34 posted on 01/27/2019 6:12:39 PM PST by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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To: Libloather; 100American; 11B40; A Balrog of Morgoth; A message; ACelt; Aeronaut; AFPhys; AlexW; ...
I'm seriously getting sick of these people. No, don't investigate further to determine how much change is actually taking place and how much we're actually contributing to it. No, don't determine the detail how bad any effects are going to be. No, don't consult people like Joe Bastardi or Bjorn Lomborg. Just change the frickin' language so the politicians can get on with running every aspect of our lives

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35 posted on 01/27/2019 6:14:21 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Ya lyublyu kovfefe!)
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To: Libloather

It’s still Global Warming to me ,change it as many times as you like


36 posted on 01/27/2019 6:16:42 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: Libloather

Decreased food production? A close look of world wheat production doesn’t seem to show no decrease in production for the last several years.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/267268/production-of-wheat-worldwide-since-1990/


37 posted on 01/27/2019 6:30:00 PM PST by Captain Compassion (I'm just sayin')
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To: Libloather

38 posted on 01/27/2019 6:45:41 PM PST by HotHunt (Reagan was good but TRUMP IS GREAT!)
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To: Libloather

I’d sooner give money to an exiled Nigerian prince than a climate scientist. All the money in the world will not alter the climate one little bit.


39 posted on 01/27/2019 7:06:05 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Save the planet 🌎 Oh wait ! The planet does not give a shit about us Oh well
40 posted on 01/27/2019 8:49:09 PM PST by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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