Posted on 01/17/2023 10:40:01 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
… To inspire people, we need to tell a story not of sacrifice and deprivation but of opportunity and improvement in our lives, our health and our well-being—a story of humans flourishing in a post-fossil-fuel age.
The language we use for climate solutions can exacerbate the cultural divide. Terms such as “regulate,” “restrict,” “cut,” “control” and “tax” are unpopular, especially among conservatives. Perhaps people would be more likely to support solutions described with words such as “innovation,” “entrepreneurship,” “ingenuity,” “market-based” and “competing in the global clean energy race.” The fact that the first significant U.S. climate policy is called the Inflation Reduction Act is another example of how word choice matters. The name itself helped to gain the crucial support of Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia, the swing vote. The name may also have made the legislation more appealing to the many Americans who worry about climate change but rank it below inflation and the economy on their list of priorities.
Word choice is part of the broader set of communication challenges we must face to build the political will needed to swiftly address the climate crisis. We can group the challenges into disinformation, misconceptions and the pigeonholing of climate change as an environmental issue.
Addressing climate communication challenges could help us build enough political will in time to blunt the worst climate change effects. People must grasp the urgency of the choice we face between a future with a little more warming and global catastrophe. And they need to recognize that the choices we make now will determine our fate.
(Excerpt) Read more at scientificamerican.com ...
Try your word choice crap over in the two filthiest largest countries on the planet: INDIA and CHINA.
Scam.
That’s a word.
I keep hearing CO2 is warming the oceans but, darn it, no matter how high I crank my thermostat, it won’t make my tea kettle boil. Imagine that! They can abuse language all they like but facts are facts.
I see, like terms such as, "Immigration reform" sound reasonable, until ya find out it means open the borders wide open and keep them open until America is dead on the floor.
More con-jobs and horse shit from the leftist/Communist.
That’s right. Neither nor.
It’s scary insane, though.
“Words”... Are the problem not the solution. All they have are words and NO proof.
“Nuclear Power”?
The right words are hoax, fraud, conceit, corruption, confirmation bias, mendacity, lunacy, aggrandizing, fake data, and hockey stick doctored data, but there're so many other words that individuals could come up with.
But this funny excerpt about Dr. Michael Evan Mann, Professor at Penn State who came up with the data jacked Hockey Stick, regarding temperatures for the past thousand years, has to be seen again.
The Competitive Enterprise Institute is a libertarian think tank that has said it “questions global warming alarmism.” In a 2012 post published on a CEI website, former CEI fellow Rand Simberg compared the investigations into Mann with the then-recent national controversy over Sandusky, who was arrested in 2011 and convicted in 2012 of sexually molesting 10 young boys.“Mann could be said to be the Jerry Sandusky of climate science, except for instead of molesting children, he has molested and tortured data,” Simberg wrote.
In a later post on National Review’s website, conservative writer Mark Steyn quoted from Simberg’s article and referred to Mann’s research as “fraudulent.”
Climate change cannot be “solved” nor helped. It will just change, with time, no matter what we do.
No, if the writer actually means man made global warming, then why doesn’t he or she say so?
They had to change the name away from what they actually mean, as they knew man made climate change is/was bogus.
And that very act tells you all you need to know about these liars and their word games.
Exactly!
“ support solutions described with words such as “innovation,” “entrepreneurship,” “ingenuity,” “market-based” and “competing in the global clean energy race.”
Sounds kind of like Capitalism buzz words?
An obvious oxymoron.
Worker to Boss “This is a Crock of Shite”
Boss to CEO “This is a bucket of fertilizer and it will grow our company”
CEO to worker “We will do this planed fertilization no matter what the cost”
Worker..... W....T....F....
This in effect is what we are seeing and being force fed..... Make sure you got your ammo and weapons cleaned.
The correct words are “kill the commies”.
Climate control freaks, YOU ARE NOT GOD. STFU.
I ended my SciAmerican subscription about 3 decades ago. I have about 20 years worth of that magazine from the 60-70-80’s in my attic. Good condition. Worthless to anyone who cares about reality, now, I guess.
SA was great when I was in HS in the 60s.
There was plenty of info on new biology/biochemistry “discoveries”.
Undeniable fact #1....we cannot ‘solve’ climate change...change is norm with climate.
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