Posted on 05/06/2014 9:58:31 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
May 6, 2014 10:42 AM Global Warming Renamed Again: Now It's 'Global Climate Disruption' By Greg Pollowitz
President Obama’s science adviser, John Holdren, thinks we should change the name of “climate change,” which was formerly known as “global warming,” to ”global climate disruption.” Via ScienceInsider:
First there was “global warming.” Then many researchers suggested “climate change” was a better term. Now, White House science adviser John Holdren is renewing his call for a new nomenclature to describe the end result of dumping vast quantities of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases into Earth’s atmosphere: “global climate disruption.”
“I’ve always thought that the phrase ‘global warming’ was something of a misnomer because it suggests that the phenomenon is something that is uniform around the world, that it’s all about temperature, and that it’s gradual,” Holdren said yesterday at the annual AAAS Forum on Science and Technology Policy in Washington, D.C. (AAAS publishes ScienceInsider.) “What could be wrong with that?”
Instead, he said, “we should call it ‘global climate disruption.’ Although the rising average global surface temperature is an indicator of the degree of disruption that we have imposed on the global climate system, what’s actually happening involves changes in circulation patterns, changes in precipitation patterns, and changes in extremes. And those are very different in different places.”
Holdren has made similar calls before, apparently with limited effect on the public’s vocabulary. This time, the remarks came in the context of a brief preview Holdren gave of a new climate report that the Obama administration is scheduled to release next week. The document will, in part, spell out the potential disruptions the United States faces as a result of a changing climate, perhaps giving Holdren’s idea some currency.
Why not just defend “global warming?” In Holdren’s own definition of “global climate disruption” above, he cites “rising average global surface temperature.” Um, that’s called “global warming.” And the reason for the name change isn’t to clear up any “misnomers,” it’s an attempt to find language that will finally convince voters that the president’s environmental policies should be enacted.
Well, to quote President Obama from 2008, “You know, you can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig.”
Environmental loons can call warming hysteria and its associated apocalyptic predictions whatever they want. But it’s still a pig.
Next up “radical climate deviation”. “Climate variabilities”.
Oh it IS science. Here’s the proof: Today in Texas it is going to be hot and according to a survey of all weathermen here resulted in 100% (every dadgum one of them) in FULL agreement that as Summer approaches it is going to get hotter. What’s really scary is that none of them was willing to reveal exactly how hot it will become - perhaps they are trying to keep everyone from panicking, or maybe it is a conspiracy!
Progressive elitists like Holdren, Podesta, Pelosi, Reid, the brothers Emanuel etc. scare the blazes out of me. I see a cadre of American fascist overlords similar to the Nazi Brownshirts coming into power. These are dangerous people and must be stopped.
“...The document will, in part, spell out the potential disruptions the United States faces as a result of a changing climate...”
If all you are concerned with is the United States (in order to steal more money), why do you continue to use the word “global”????
I knew they would rename it. But I was so hoping for “Irritable Climate Syndrome.”
A crap sandwich under any other name is still a crap sandwich
How about Global Climate Fraud?
You left out volcanoes. One volcano can change the weather far more than human activity. And there are lots of active volcanoes. So volcanoes are the fault of humans! Real scientists know CO2 levels follow warming, not cause it. The fake science doesn't look at what happened historically for thousands of years on Earth, they just guess about a snippet of time in the last couple decades and still get it wrong! Oh, we need to blame sunspot activity on humans also!
Lefties are always changing the names of things to disassociate the issue from the truth that people have come to understand about the issue.
I think it's far more cynical than that. I think they know very well what the real facts are. They also fully understand how much people have been scientifically dumbed-down and politically indoctrinated by what I jokingly call our "educational system." They want power and control in addition to the wealth to be harvested by the sale of phony "carbon credits."
In some twisted fashion they've also deluded themselves into believing they're saving the world. To do so they're operating in true Alinsky mode: that end justifies any lie, perversion of science or injustice. I think they're dumb enough to believe world socialism based on the basically totalitarian EU model will somehow lead to Utopia. They could not be more wrong. It leads to Dystopia.
How about just calling it “glo-baloney.”
Still waiting for the ozone “hole” to kill us or maybe acid rain and the new ice age.
Apparently only their science is settled.
More like Climate Distortion.
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