Obama’s science Czar John Holdren has decided the new name for global warming, er, climate change shall be:
Because the first two didn’t work apparently.
(CNSNews.com) – John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, says that the term “global warming” is “a dangerous misnomer” that should be replaced with “global climate disruption.”
I have a new name for Mr. Holdren, sort of like a superhero name: “Johnny Desperate”.
From CNS news and the American Thinker, barf bag optional.
WH Science Czar ‘Global Warming’ is ‘Dangerous Misnomer’
By James Lewis, American Thinker
John Holdren, our official fraudulent “Science Czar” for our equally mendacious President, has dumped “global warming” as a “dangerous misnomer.” Ah, yes, that would be it then. It’s not the facts but the words that are wrong, says America’s official Doctor Science.
In scientific terms this means John Holdren has run up the white flag and is begging for mercy. “Warming” is something we can measure scientifically. “Global Warming” is a lot more speculative, but with satellites, weather balloons, and plenty of ocean buoys, we now know that it’s just wrong. Global Warming has been shot down in flames by scientific skeptics who resorted to an unfair tactic called “facts and observations.”
The wild hypothesis of “catastrophic anthropogenic global warming a 100 years from now,” is so obviously harebrained sci fi that no sane person can believe in it.
Dr. Holdren’s newest brainstorm? Forget all that warming stuff. No, we are now supposed to believe in something called “global climate disruption.”
That way some wildly overpaid “internationally respected” climate modeler can predict that in a hundred years things will get two degrees warmer, colder, or neither one or the other, and still predict the end of the earth. That’ll be a couple of hundred million dollars for more life-saving “research,” if you please.
The media are banging on “scientific” doors for another cataclysmic headline, right now, to feed their hunger for the Scare of the Day. Their whole business model depends on it. The New York Times is talking about giving up their paper edition entirely. ABC has fired its “News” chief. They desperately need another Scary Hobgoblin to goose up the ignorant masses, or they might go belly-up tomorrow. Let’s hope they do go down tomorrow, because it couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch. That why free markets have losers, and boy, are these people ever losers.
I suppose that’s why Dr. Holdren thinks that old and toxic phrase “Global Warming” is now “dangerous.” But dangerous for whom? Not dangerous for the real world, that’s for sure. Not dangerous for developing countries that build another coal-fired power plant every day to feed their billions of hungry people. They can see people dying on the streets in Calcutta, but they can’t see two degrees warmer in a hundred years being such a big deal. Maybe Dr. Holdren thinks that “Global Warming” is now “dangerous” for the corrupt politicized faux-scientists who have built their careers on ecological hobgoblins? That sounds more like it.
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“global climate disruption” = weather
Is it still anthropogenic CO2 we’re supposed to fear, though?
Nonsense!
REPLY: finally, we agree on something. – Anthony
I thought the new name for ( A) Global Warming ( B) Climate Change or (C) Global Climate Disruption, was reduced to one word which everyone can relate to, but is not controversial , and says nothing about climate or weather or global or warming..I heard the new buzzword was ” sustainability ” …….get ready, you are about to hear a lot about sustainability in the near future……
Ian
…That’s a forecast 60 days ahead!
If it walks like a duck………
Well, “High Fructose Corn Syrup” just became available.
It’s the climate “Going rogue”
If it warms like a duck and cools like a duck, it’s…
Global Climate Disruption! Watch Global Climate Disruption destroy a city near you!
I rather like it. Has a certain Emmerich ring to it.
The problem is, global temperatures are not rising up to match the predicted hockey stick. So let Bob Dole suggest a better name. Instead of GCD, call it GED (Global Erectile Dysfunction).
And yet another Orwellian story 🙁
What will be the next headline then? “Insert weasely-worded euphemism here”
You can’t have “climate disruption” as they operate on two completely different time scales. It’s like having a “long-term acute illness”, or a “gradual impulse”.
Chaos theory?
Ecotretas
Whoa! Gave ’em both barrels didn’t he?
Personally, I prefer the old “climate chaos” term to “climate disruption”. It’s short, it’s zippy, it’s alliterative (CACC vs CAGD or CAGW; or better yet, CCC), and reminds at least some people of Agent Maxwell Smart’s evil foe, CHAOS. Hah, take that, evil!
Of course more than a few politicians and climate scientists also remind us of Agent Smart himself and his organization, CONTROL…which, come to think of it, may explain why Holdren prefers “climate disruption”.
Never mind.
Don’t forget about “Global Weirding”. Not sure who coined that one but it got a lot of play for a little while.
OhhhKaaay, so, Mr. Holdren, what is the link between man and global climate disruption? The same old same old or something new?
GeoFlynx says:
September 16, 2010 at 1:48 pm
Nonsense!
REPLY: finally, we agree on something. – Anthony
GeoFlynx – Yes, this time we do.
Dammit, my “CAGD” above should be “CACD”. Climate disruption is obviously causing catastrophic calligraphic chaos.
At the core of this claim is a fundamental political necessity – it’s the fault of mankind. They have chipped away at the periphery and implicated other gases (e.g. CFCs, methane, NOx and SOx) but their primary target remains CO2. If you control CO2 you control energy and if you control energy you control the world’s economies. Control of economies is the ultimate measure of control (right up there with food and water).
Trouble is…CO2 (in theory) can only do ONE thing – make the planet slightly warmer many, many decades in the future. How does one extrapolate this into “global climate disruption”? They used “climate change” as they thought it might cover their butts in the event that it became cooler or didn’t change. Most sentient individuals now see “climate change” for the gigantic fraud that it is. Honestly, even if the IPCC’s wildly inflated claims were true, who in their right mind is going to get upset about the planet becoming 1-2 deg warmer in their lifetime? Man, it’s a tough sell! Time to go back to the ol’ playbook and start blaming every untoward weather event on humans.
Holdren doesn’t even have a tattered theory to hand his hat on this time.
I’d suggest that the only thing Dangerous in that announcement is that one John Holdren. Notice it is the White House Office of Science and Energy POLICY ! Not the White House Office Of Science and Technology.
Back to facts and observations:
The WSO is reporting new facts on the sun’s magnetic polar fields observations, showing sudden steep decline
http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net/PF-latest.gif
it appears that the SC24 maximum is not far off.
This one will be easier to shoot down that Global Warming because there is more variation in climate than trend over a short period of time. Let them try and define “normal variation”. I sense another shot in the foot coming on for AGW.
Talk about planned obsolescence. This term will be short lived as soon as people start figuring out that the climate is the same as it ever was, which shouldn’t take too long.
Since terms for what we formerly knew as Global warming are having shorter lifespans with each succeeding rename it could be said that the rapidity at which this climate related phenomenon is renamed is increasing at a rate, which is worse than we thought.
Disruption is the art of he who disrupts.
He is trying to scare the hell out of us. The climate in the white house is probably badly disrupted and mr holdren no longer is wishing to hide the truth . Kudos for mr Holdren , may his confessions bring him fortune .