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Lexicon Shift Alert: global warming gets another name change (Carbon Pollution ??)
Watts Up With That? ^ | August 15, 2013 | by Anthony Watts

Posted on 08/15/2013 12:18:02 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

Back in 2010, I pointed out that White House science adviser John Holdren had made a shift in naming conventions for the twice renamed “global warming”.

The lexicon shift in 2010

It seems that another shift in the lexicon has occurred, again at the White House. Organizing for Action, President Obama’s campaign machine declared Tuesday that there was a new name.

The Washington Times picked up on this shift, and I’ve updated the graphic to reflect the new name.  There’s also a poll to choose/predict the next name after this one.

The doomed planet movement has been losing momentum. Inconvenient scientific findings have confirmed the lack of any significant warming of dear old Earth over the past 16 years. It’s hard to scare people into action when nothing bad is happening. That’s why the White House has changed its vocabulary again — first “global warming” was changed to “climate change” — and now the correct name of the scam is “carbon pollution.” It’s a way to paint carbon dioxide as if it were black soot billowing out of industrial smokestacks. Carbon dioxide is actually what humans exhale, and it’s food for plants.

Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/13/wearing-out-words/#ixzz2c3XmuaV7

Its seems that since global warming has stalled, and scientists are puzzled by it, plus major players in science are poo-pooing the “climate disruption/extreme weather angle, they had no choice but to make a lexicon shift.

Here is the updated graphic to reflect the lexicon shift. Feel free to share far and wide:

global_warming_name_changes

What should the next name be? Take the poll, you can also add your own answer. Be sure to post your new answer in comments. (I’ll add some of the best ones manually)
[NOTE: for some reason the poll won't display other answers from voters in the voting or the results, so I disabled it - A]

The next name for "global warming"?
Climate Rambunctiousness
Weather, but now with taxes
Climageddon
Climate flaccidity
WetterBlitzkrieg (top choice at Skeptical Science)
Slow roasted goodness
Peak Weather
D.E.A.T.H. Destructive Earth Annihilating Temperature Hellification (Lucia)
Post Traumatic Weather Syndrome
Climate Jihad
Obamaclimatecare (Chris NJSnowfan)
Climate Gone Wild
Dana's Inferno
Irritable Climate Syndrome
Frankenclimate
Quantcast

h/t to Small Dead Animals for some of the names


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: carbon; carbonpollution; climatechange; globalwanking; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax
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1 posted on 08/15/2013 12:18:02 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks; Army Air Corps; Marine_Uncle; NormsRevenge; SunkenCiv; onyx; TigersEye; ...

fyi


2 posted on 08/15/2013 12:18:47 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

We are all carbon polluters.


3 posted on 08/15/2013 12:19:31 PM PDT by dirtboy
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Post Traumatic Weather Syndrome!

Climate Jihad aint bad either come to think of it!

Im ever so glad Im not a Climate-American!!


4 posted on 08/15/2013 12:20:29 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey (This Message NOT Approved By The N.S.A.)
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To: dirtboy

do Cimate Americans Wear Hoodies?


5 posted on 08/15/2013 12:20:58 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey (This Message NOT Approved By The N.S.A.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

I missed out on “climate disruption”, and I’m pissed!


6 posted on 08/15/2013 12:21:21 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (The only people in the world who fear Obama are American citizens. KILL THE BILL!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

My suggestion is climate unpredictability.


7 posted on 08/15/2013 12:22:56 PM PDT by pallis
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Carbon....black....dirty....conjures up images of Pittsburgh in 1938.

Yeah, that should work. Be sure and make that check payable to George Lakoff. cha-ching....


8 posted on 08/15/2013 12:23:17 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Is that Lexicon or LEFTICONNED?


9 posted on 08/15/2013 12:24:35 PM PDT by ZULU ((See: http://gatesofvienna.net/) Obama, do you hear me?)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

The Days of Whine and Woeses.


10 posted on 08/15/2013 12:24:51 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" is more than an Army Ranger credo it's the character of America.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I'm kind of surprised that they'd keep recycling the same idea. This dead horse has long since been bludgeoned too much.

I figured that they'd start over, likely with "OMG!! We're running out of clean water!!!!". Inspire new fear in the same people, and get them to re-open their pocketbooks.

11 posted on 08/15/2013 12:25:32 PM PDT by wbill
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Conservatives should start talking about the extreme C02 drought we are currently in and how we need to be adding C02 to the atmosphere in order to save the trees and other green things.


12 posted on 08/15/2013 12:27:05 PM PDT by taxcontrol
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Those checks are the goal,

In an indirect way.

See California Electric Rates and the Legislation that requires all Power Generation to be at least 30% supplied by Green Energy sources....NG not included.

13 posted on 08/15/2013 12:27:27 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
"Carbon pollution", eh? I guess they're talking about that gas that plants and trees need for photosynthesis? The gas they convert into oxygen? The gas that comprises less than one percent of gasses in the atmosphere? The gas that nature itself (forests and oceans) produces 210 billion tons of per year, while all human activity combined produces only about six billion tons of per year?

Sure...let 'em call it carbon pollution. Let 'em take ownership, then we'll bury them in the term. Hang it around their necks and ridicule the h*ll out of them for being so stupid.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

14 posted on 08/15/2013 12:29:24 PM PDT by wku man (Amnesty? No Way, Jose (No Se Puede!) by 10 Pound Test http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsTUQ8yOI2c)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

I got it! We will call it “Weather”.


15 posted on 08/15/2013 12:30:40 PM PDT by VRW Conspirator (Producing Talk Show Prep since 1998.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Look for AP (Administration Propaganda) to update their
copyline headings by tomorrow.


16 posted on 08/15/2013 12:30:50 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

When people catch on to the hustle, just change the name of the game. Instead of Three Card Monte, they want to play Find the Queen.


17 posted on 08/15/2013 12:33:32 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Honey! We Messed Up the Climate.


18 posted on 08/15/2013 12:34:54 PM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

We can call it “Smaller Bikinis”.

That ought to do it.


19 posted on 08/15/2013 12:34:58 PM PDT by buffaloguy
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

That carbon di-oxide is insidious stuff. Almost as bad as that di-hydrogen monoxide, which is such an indescrimate killer of adults children and babies. The latter, once created, persists in the environment indefinitely!

(sarc)


20 posted on 08/15/2013 12:39:28 PM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was lost but now I'm found; blind but now I see.)
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