After "Global Climate Disruption": next name?

WMD – Weather of Mass Destruction.

Beginning to smell in here!
Remember when “Purple Rain” Man changed his name to “Artist”?
Whoa, Dude!

SuperClimaFragilLiptic-BP-AcidOceanous!
Sung to this.

Post-normal climate. “Post-normal” being the kitschiest new jargon word any PhD ever thought up. And it sounds so much better than “we don’t know”, or SWAG, and if you MSU (make stuff up) you get a free pass because your intentions are pure.

I just wish they’d settle on something. I’m getting tired of recalibrating my weather rock.
* If stone is wet, it is raining.
* If stone is green, it rained a while ago.
* If stone is white, it is snowing.
* If stone is shaking, there is an earthquake.
* If stone is dry, the weather is fair.
* If stone is swinging, it’s windy.
* If stone is warm, the sun is out.
* If stone is not visible, it’s dark outside.
* If stone is under water, there is a flood.
* If stone is gone, there is a tornado (Run!!)
[REPLY – Ah, yes. The Serpent River Weather Station. Most reliable equipment I ever observed ~ Evan]

How about Anthropogenic Climate Flatulence? This whole thing stinks anyway…

“Planet Death Watch” works for me, since that is the longtime obsession of Jim Hansen and his “Venus Syndrome”!
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Hansen believes that governments don’t yet recognize the urgency of climate change. “There are a lot of governments who say they understand the problems, but a lot of it is greenwash,” he said. “The Venus Syndrome [in which Earth undergoes runaway warming and the oceans boil off] is the greatest threat to humanity’s existence. Earth is Goldilock’s choice of the planets – not too hot, not too cold, it’s just right.”
http://environmentalresearchweb.org/blog/2008/12/agu-meeting-jim-hansen-on-pact.html
LOL!!!

Unpredictable climative dissonance

Instead of any of new names , they should make a climate armageddon clock , much like the clock that the nuclear war clock of a few decades ago . If the climate begins to cool down as expected we can all watch it run backwards – kinda like the Bill Clinton watch .

Timothy Birdnow says:
September 19, 2010 at 11:02 am
Climate Flatulence is a good one.
Breaking Wind in the Greenhouse: the Alarmist once again forgot to open a window.

Curiousgeorge says: at 10:57 am “weather rock”
As with CAGW, mine was faulty — made of rock salt.

Climate Island: “The Flames, the flames”.

I once saw “Globull Warnings” cited.

I had suggested “New Coke” as the results will be the same. Perhaps A.D.D. = Anthropogenically Distracted Disorder

Should read Ignorance of Natural Variability Oscillations Known Effects.

Picked up a great new book on anti-gravity. Couldn’t put it down!

GOREd on the horns of a climatic dilemma?

To make it accessible to Proles and Sheeple, we should invoke NewSpeak:
“DoublePlus UnGoodful Weatherwise”

I don’t see why they need to change the name.
CAGW works fine for me.
Computer Aided Global Warming

Jim Hanson’s Muppet Meme?

‘Ralph says:
“Irritable Climate Syndrome”
I had that once. It was easily cured by eating less Greens…….’
If it gets rid of Caroline Lucas, a little disomfort would be justified!

Lets not play the alarmist’s game let give it a name that reflects the truth, like “stupid nonsense” as in “I don’t believe this climate change stupid nonsense” or better yet “stupid non-science”.

” Kirly says:
September 19, 2010 at 9:56 am
WMD – Weather of Mass Destruction.”
Applause. Sustained applause. Standing ovation.
That response is worthy of its primary position.
Consider the background as to why WMD has become a well-known acronym.

Climate, with a risk of weather?

“Planetary Climate Pandemic!”
Even better… PCP.
And never mind the content of Kate’s site. She’s kinda our Ann Coulter. Best taken with hard liquor.

Peak Weather may have some actual legs, given the obsession with Peak Oil.

Acronym warning. Fearmongers’ Universal Climate Kerfuffle.

And then there’s:
M orphing
A nthropological
D estruction

Why not be honost about it? Make mankind feel guilty about existing tax. Or,
Anthropogenic Climate Gone Wild. Now on DVD. Sure to win all awards weather they exist or not.

INGSOC says:
September 19, 2010 at 2:42 pm
My own entry would have been: “Planet in Peril” or something like that. It has the usual wheedling and weeping that accompanies most hysterical propaganda. “Protect the Hive!” is perhaps more fitting, given their inability to convince even themselves.

CNN has been using “Planet in Peril” for a couple of years at least.

Mutual Anthropogenic Disruption (MAD)
Make it clear it is EVERYONE’S fault so EVERYONE must pay to fix it!
Hey you, destitute West African villager! Why are you trying to cut down that tree? Don’t you realize that’s a biological carbon capture and sequestration unit? Are you trying to kill EVERYBODY?

Just an observation and to quote!
“The pen is mightier than the sword”. [Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
It is most noticeable that over the last few months, a change has come to the comments on anything to do with Global Warming / Climate Change / Climate Disruption in the skeptical and even the luke warmer’s blogs.
The comments are increasingly tinged and coloured with increasing levels of confidence and sarcasm towards the various claims and proclamations of the Wamistas and Doomers, something that is becoming ever more evident every-time the apparent desperation of the Warmists and Doomers causes them to resort to changing their descriptions of the supposedly imminent global climate catastrophe to even more apparently doom laden descriptions such as Holdren’s “Climate Disruptions”.
The appearance of this increasingly confident and somewhat sarcastic trend in the skeptic’s comments towards the warmista / doomster’s camp is a big shift from the quite defensive attitudes of the skeptics prior to Climategate.
The new and somewhat desperate description “Climate Disruptions” is a total non goer with the public as it does not have a ring to it which the public can identify with and in any case, it is now too late in the act to yet again change the description of the climate horse during mid race and expect the public to keep on swallowing it.
About all the attempted introduction of the new description will do is to reinforce the public’s perception that the whole of the claims on the supposedly imminent catastrophic global warming has again, for the second time in months, morphed into something completely different.
And in doing so the Warmista’s and Doomers are losing even more credibility.
From the public’s point of view it is all becoming just so much more political hype and spin, particularly coming from the likes of Holdren who is seen as right in the thick of politics and all that entails.
If the Warmistas and the Doomers can’t even stick to one description of the fate that supposedly awaits us, a fate that the public is still waiting to see any evidence at all that it might actually exist, and a fate that even the most aggressive of the Doomers has to keep changing the name of then the whole global warming debacle and scam is in the first phase of what will be a long drawn out, very messy and very nasty but ultimately the final death throes of this whole debacle.
The real consequence of the Great Global Warming Scam will be a very substantial loss of trust in science and scientists for at least a generation.
Perhaps a necessary happening in that it will remove the preening group of self indulgent practitioners of climate science from that elevated pedestal on which they have in their own estimation been entitled to elevate themselves to in recent times and that in their opinion towers far above the smelly and somewhat uncouth throng far beneath them.
A very high proportion of that smelly and uncouth bunch who have to pay for all of this have about had enough of warmista science shenanigans and the constant exhortations of the climate Doomsayers all of whom are now increasingly seen to have their snouts deep in the public trough and intend to keep it there.
Yep! The Pen is Mightier than the [ political! ] Sword.
It is just that it will take a little longer to destroy the cult but it also ensures that there will be no tragic heroes left from the sword carrier’s for the believers to mourn over.

The name hardly matters anymore it will always translate to ” help me I’m stupid”.Its the coulda, shouda woulda syndrome. Nitwits R us in old speak.

Everyone is missing the fact Holdren is sending a signal. In fact, I believe his is throwing in the towel on AGW. The definition of ‘disruption’ is:
1. To throw into confusion or disorder.
2. To interrupt or impede the progress, movement, or procedure of.
3. To break or burst; rupture.
Using definition 2, interrupt or impede means to halt the progress of some process. This then translates to ‘Climate Change Halt’. Holdren is saying climate change has stopped. The remaining definitions are less likely:
1. Global Climate Dementia.
3. Global Climate Hernia.

A modest proposal:
Dr. James Hansen of NASA GISS has long wanted to accomplishing something that will ensure enduring fame for himself. I propose that a new term be introduced in his honor in the field of science, the Hansen Scheme. A Hansen scheme is a scientific fraud, perpetrated with governmental knowledge and assistance, that includes vigorous efforts to stifle attempts to expose said fraud, and is intended to enable said government to fleece and further restrict the lives of its citizens. Global warming is currently the most serious example of a Hansen Scheme, but not the only one now out there. Also, Hansen and Charles Ponzi belong in the same class of characters in our history.
REPLY: I don’t share this view. Never assume fraud or malice where simple incompetence will do. That said, have a look at this:

Above is a blink comparator showing the before and after of GISS adjustments to the surface temperature record, 10 years apart. – Anthony

1. Sick Climate Syndrome
2. Man-made Climate Disaster

Slightly OT, but here in Japan on 27 October, The Asahi Glass Foudation is to award the Blue Planet Prize to Jim Hansen and Robert Watson. They will receive an award certificate, a trophy, and ca. $600,000 (50 million Yen) each:
http://www.af-info.or.jp/en/blueplanet/introduction.html

…as a play on Hansen’s “Venus Syndrome,” how about the “Fund Us Syndrome”?

How about Computer Aided Science Hoax, or CASH?

I hope they stick with Global Climate Disruption.
Its catchy,
I’m warming to it.

Pete of perth September 19, 2010 at 6:00 pm
Modelocalyspe

It’s hard enough to pronounce that without your concluding lysp!
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>:p

James Sexton says:
September 19, 2010 at 9:08 pm
baffled24 says:
September 19, 2010 at 7:56 pm
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If you can’t see the humor here, then the second observation of the word humor would apply to you.
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Is there a third or fourth observation? The only thing that seems remotely funny is the fact that the comments are, supposedly, made by adults.

Curiousgeorge,
I can see from your post that you are totally taken by your weather rock.
In Oz we gave up on them nearly a century ago in favour of the weather stick, it gives all the same details of the rock but with many enhanced features. At this point I have to say that I am not a weather stick expert, but do understand many of its salient features.
A carefully prepared stick of set length and diameter is available through our Met office, the preparation of the stick and its species a closely guarded secret. Set in the ground in a plumb position to the correct height this gives all the features of your rock,plus.
Rocks are used but only as permanent markers on the ground, thus a system of accurate time keeping for the observations. The winter and summer solstices can be predicted with accuracy. The fine calibration of this stick also gives wind speed by deflection and direction by observation of the fixed cardinal stones.
Please refer also to E.M. Smith The Chiefo for the correct procedure of the stick to ascertain the exact measure of the second and the definition of the yard the foot and many other extremely useful applications.
I fail to understand your preference for a rock in a modern world.

baffled24 says:
September 20, 2010 at 3:12 am
C’mon you old stick-in-the-mud! Then laugh it up!
Sheeesh…For all the fearmongering that has gone on, along with people wringing their hands with worry over the polar bears, and boiling oceans, etc ad nauseum, we all have to stop once in a while and smell the roses.
For all you (or we) know there’s a comet impact occurring in 6 hours that will destroy the planet: no more weather to worry about! We are finite, our days are numbered…take a break and laugh. If I had your stodgy, condescending outlook I’d probably be hoping for the end of the world too.
That said, for me anyway, and obviously others here, I think we’d prefer to hang with your Grandson.
Smile and the world smiles with you, frown and…welcome to CAGW.

Just another 2 cents worth, but:
How egocentric is the phrase ‘climate disruption’ anyway? As if…
[As] Mariss says:
September 19, 2010 at 6:45 pm
“…2. To interrupt or impede the progress, movement, or procedure of…”
…’ of ‘ what? Us? Yea, sometimes weather impedes our progress and movement…get used to it, it’s chaotic. It’s not margarine! (get it? it’s ‘not nice to fool with’…oh forget it, I’m stopping now 🙂

In this modern world of climate controlled offices (A/C makes the outside seem warmer still) the persistence of weather to be unruly and unpredictable has resulted in:
The situation.
Short and to the point, it may require a licence from MTV’s Jersey Shore, however….
This just in: Seen on a Tee-shirt; Climatologists do it, with models.

I kind of like the previously used term, “inadvertent climate modification.” It sounds so accidentally friendly.

Climeaphobia?
Global Incontenance?
Global Climate Modulation?
Over Population?
Global Constipation?
Global Dispepsia?

My immediate reaction also was “Irritable Climate Syndrome”.
Seems to encapsulate the whole sorry tale, somehow.

Climatic Climax Continuum

LOL. I love the Globecaust!
Oh so funny.

I’m sticking with “Wrath of Cthuhlu” for obvious reasons ( fear of cthuhlu) besides, if I remember correctly, Cthuhlu lives at the south pole, and the warmers worship the ice already.
Failing that, I did like Anthropocalypse.

I do not expect the new name to hold, but I find it rather hard to imagine what they might actually try next; perhaps something like ‘anthropogenic global contamination,’ ‘anthropogenic global climate destabilization,’ or ‘anthropogenic global climate endangerment.’ Of course, the term ‘anthropogenic global warming’ seems to have a life all its own.

I say they should go right back to their original roots:
‘The Sky Is Falling! The Sky Is Falling!’