You can see the benefit of English-style schooling and literary tradition in both Rex Murphy and Mark Steyn. In both of them, the wit is brilliant, pointed, smooth, and dangerous.
CAGW
Catastrophic Anthropomorphic Glabal Warming
Ain’t happening, at least provably.
Language terms can persuade, which is why ALL conservatives should replace the term “unborn” with “preborn”.
Any time some ignorant clown tells me I’m a “climate change denier”, I ask them if they believe in climate stasis - do they believe the climate would stay the same, forever, without humans.
Of course the climate is always changing, naturally, and no one denies that, and so they have to admit that fact as well (otherwise *they* become the reality “deniers”).
Once we get to that point, I ask them if the climate changes naturally and continually, then over a period of time, some feature of it (like global temperature) should naturally be going either up or down (since if stasis isn’t the normal situation, staying constant won’t happen). And it that’s the case, I ask them what should global temperature be doing now, naturally - going up or going down?
Of course they won’t know, but will generally reply it’s going up too much or too fast. To which I’ll reply, again, as a result of natural oscillations, should temperature over the past, say, 50 years be going up or down, and how rapidly or slowly should it be changing?
Again, they won’t have a specific answer, it will just be “temperatures are rising too fast” - but if you don’t know if, due to natural changes, temps should be going up or down, or how fast or how slowly, how can you say that what we’re observing is the wrong direction or occurring at the wrong pace?
Eventually, since they have no positive answers (only negative criticisms), the discussion devolves into “scientific consensus”, at which point you’ve got them - in other words, they don’t know what they’re talking about, they just *believe* something somebody else has told them.
Climate science = political science
Do the libs have anything other than climate change and racism in their political vocabulary.
The issue is that Leftist’s in general twist the language and the truth for their cause, thus...The “corrupt” media is actually very accurate.