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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Uh, this disaster of a White House administration doesn’t use the word “stimulus” any more either. Seems the American people wiped the lipstick off that pig too.
Wordplay may be a clever game inside the beltway but main street is realizing (maybe too late) that they are financing these bozos and their clever games.
I am SOOOO glad they’re tossing the “Climate Change” term! I don’t care what they call themselves or their movement as long as the implosion continues and they look more ridiculous by the day. Soon their acolytes will be so confused they won’t know who or what to believe.
And the Landscheidt Grand Solar Minimum decends to an appointment with a 2030 nadir, caring not a hoot what CO2 does..
[snip – off topic, flame bait]
Bruce says:
September 16, 2010 at 3:24 pm
More of this is going on elsewhere. The Guardian has now started to refer to warmists as climate realists.
“Only one of the 48 Republicans seeking a seat in the Senate has dared to stand on the side of climate science or support climate change legislation – and he was knocked out of the running yesterday. The losing climate realist, Mike Castle, served nearly two decades as the state’s lone member of Congress…” (my emphasis)
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Really! We were discussing the various merits of the terms “skeptic”, “realist” and “dissident” with respect to climate months and months ago on this site, and “climate realist” was never a term directed at a warmer–that’s a total perversion of the term. The biggest lies are now told by the government, from “health care reform”, to “stimulus”, to “hope”. I’ll just add “climate realist” to their list of perverted definitions.
(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.”
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We just went through that (the economy).
Now we need to recover (any ideas ?).
Stop trying to scare us, we are plenty scared already.
Idiot.
Hmmm. My money was on “extreme weather”. More easily absorbed by us fools in the real world.
so first they called it global warming, and then since the evidence wasn’t supporting it they called it global climate change, and now they’re calling it global climate disruption? that’s the worst term, we have no idea what the climate would be doing without the increased CO2, so how do we know if CO2 is disrupting it.
How about they call it “global, ‘i have no idea what is actually happening so here is some propaganda’ climate variations”, at least then they wouldn’t be lying to the world
CO2 layer depletion!
Hmmm, Halloween is coming. How about pushing the zombie apocalypse? We can get five or six weeks out that before people realize there are still plenty of Twinkies.
” My money was on “extreme weather””
But everybody knows we don’t control the weather.
Just the climate.
I got it! Global Climate Anomaly! Yes! Then people who know the meaning of the word ‘anomaly’ will see that Holdren and friends do not know what the heck they are talking about. (An anomaly is a fact that resists all scientific explanation and threatens to bring down existing theory.)
Zombie Apocalypse would be a relief already !
At least then I’d know what John Holdren is .
D. King says:
September 16, 2010 at 4:05 pm
[snip – off topic, flame bait]
Yes, John Holdern’s writings are.
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Sorry!
I’ll head back under the bridge.
I have a better one: Air Churn. Kinda like a Butter Churn except thinner. Also it sounds like the name of a rock group, which should garner a few votes from the air guitar crowd.
Climate disruption? Hmmmm … blame it on Igor! He’s disrupting SST’s and current flow and is about to disrupt the tranquility of Bermuda.
Had to scrub plans to go jogging; the rain disrupted that idea.
And think of the disruption of a major east coast snowstorm.
Yep, all those weather events sure can be disruptive and after summing it all up after thirty years you’ve got a disruptive climate average.
Hasn’t anyone noticed?
It’s just like King Canute!!
Leave it to Holdren to find something that has always been known for extremes, and claim it is now extreme for the 1st time.
Like the weather has never gone ape torquing haywire bonkers before.
Now, we ARE talking weather, for it is storms or lack of storms that makes the really rough stuff.
Name it: Hurricanes, tornadoes, super downpours and hailstorms, freak winds, megadroughts, arctic & antarctic blasts, heatwaves, etc.
This is all about the weather itself.
Forget about climate, it’s too darn slow, and besides, it’s not doing what the anthropogenic warming orchestra proclaimed.
It’s all man’s fault.
Expect 60mph killer glaciers, whole mountains turned to mud, instantly frozen or baked cities, 100 foot snowfalls, sinkholes the size of Rhode Island, 200 foot waves.
George Lucas has his work cut out for him.
Re climate disruption being caused by Cthulu..oh good, I’ve always felt this deep seated desire to ululate.
But this is really getting insane. So, now we are being told that global climate disruption is doubleplusungood. These people are Orwellian in the extreme. Most of us take Orwell as a cautionary tale, these folks seem to view it as an instruction manual.
For a number of years Joe Bastardi has used the term “Climatic Hardship” to describe the weather which was likely to reoccur, in many ways like the 1950’s, with the east coast more likely to get hurricanes, and the warm PDO and warm AMO giving way to a cold PDO and cold AMO, which led to the cold that peaked in the late 1970’s.
The so-called “quiet sun” may throw a wrench into the correctness of some of Bastardi’s predictions, because nothing like that occurred in the 1950’s and 1970’s. However Bastardi’s main point was that we don’t need “Global Warming” to be facing a threat. Ordinary climate cycles will be quite challenging enough, and therefore we should be aware “we are entering a time of Climatic Hardship.”
It must be obvious to Holden that the hope of “Global Warming” lasting long enough to get certain laws passed is slim, and getting slimmer. Therefore he must change the threat to “Global Climate Disruption,” and hope like heck people are willing to believe passing certain laws can keep these “disruptions” (Climatic Hardships) from occurring. When they do occur, he hopes he can blame those who oppose him for the bad weather.
Is this madness or what?
I have no problem with people turning to a Higher Power for help, whether it be with rain dances or prayer meetings.
However when supposedly responsible people blame their fellow man for bad weather, and seek retribution, I do have a very big problem with it. It’s nuts, and needs to be stopped.
Bob Dole says:
September 16, 2010 at 2:05 pm
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).
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The end of the hockey stick is failing to go Erect? 🙂
Okay then, I guess folks like me can officially no longer be called “warmists” but “disruptionists”? AGW is now AGDisruption, or, as the skeptics would prefer, Another Goofy Dillusion…
This is all good fun, yet it changes nothing in the physics of what it actually going on, and that’s all that matters in the end. AGW skeptics will either be the greatest heros or the greatest fools mankind has ever known…not much room in between.
Too right it’s a dangerous misnomer. As there is no “global warming” it’s best to talk about something else – climate change didn’t hack it as climate always changes. Disruption sounds more violent and less common.
It’s a sunny day here in Sydney after a very cool start – WOW that’s two whole disruptions already and it isn’t lunchtime yet.
R. Gates, it changes nothing that is in the computer models, which lack an awful lot of physics and contain a whole host of self-serving assumptions.
The whole scam is based upon positive feedbacks, that obviously don’t exist or the planet would have boiled billions of years ago. Understand how positive feedbacks work, in this case:
The hotter it gets, the even hotter it gets; it’s a run-away effect that all engineers understand.
When sales are falling, just re-brand the product.
Here’s your new scare: Solar Mega storm: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/7819201/Nasa-warns-solar-flares-from-huge-space-storm-will-cause-devastation.html
Clearly, our reliance on the power grid must be diminished in favor of locally generated solar power (or mush to that effect).
Just remember, it’s solar weather not solar climate.