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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galileonardo says:
September 16, 2010 at 2:46 pm
I propose Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Anomalies, or CACA for short.
This wouldn’t be the same John Holdren who wrote these gems, would it?…..
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I always thought these gems were appropriate:
“A massive campaign [CAGW] must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States. De-devolopment means bringing our economic system (especially patterns of consumption) into line with the realities of ecology and the global resource situation. Resources and energy must be diverted from frivolous and wasteful uses in overdeveloped countries to filling the genuine needs of underdeveloped countries.”
OR
“The need for de-development presents our economists with a major challenge,” they wrote. “They must design a stable, low-consumption economy in which there is a much more equitable distribution of wealth than the present one. Redistribution of wealth both within and among nations is absolutely essential, if a decent life is to be provided for every human being.” [the UN’s Agenda 21 or “sustainability”]
OR the best one yet. Holdren’s definition of a human:
” “The fetus, given the opportunity to develop properly before birth, and given the essential early socializing experiences and sufficient nourishing food during the crucial early years after birth, will ultimately develop into a human being. Where any of these essential elements is lacking, the resultant individual will be deficient in some respect.”
Notice he says “the resultant individual will be deficient” NOT the resultant human….
I guess we do not rate as “REAL Humans” in Holdren’s book because we did not get the correct brainwashing ERRrr “the essential early socializing experiences” to be good little “team players”
To be fair, he coined global climate disruption before he was Obama’s chief science advisor.
The beauty of “global climate disruption ” is that it means nothing . Like “climate change” it covers everything that nature can throw at us . As someone commented the other day , a theory that explains everything explains nothing . And Holdren has nothing .
Global Climate Disruption… Disruption?
Static Klingons! I knew it. They’re not only firing Disruptors at Earth, they’re firing at the Sun.
Old lies, the same as new lies. Different words, different branding. But by and large it’s the same lies.
I guess we aren’t going to burn up and melt now, so they going to switch back to the going to die because of the coming ice age this go? Al gore is going to have to rejigger his lift jack and charts.
He has something there:
“global climate” proponents’ disruption of our governments,
“global climate” proponents’ disruption of our economies,
“global climate” proponents’ disruption of our corporations,
“global climate” proponents’ disruption of our sciences,
“global climate” proponents’ disruption of our very lives.
Disruption of our climate system? Baloney. Scientifically disproven.
Few would have trouble telling the people of the world how “global warming”, “climate change” and “global climate” proponents have disrupted our world. Would the leaders of “The Great Disruptors” please stand.
Dangerous? You bet.
I’m not much of a Sci Fi fan; the real thing is a damn side more entertaining; but do I recall correctly that a Disruptor is some sort of bad Arse Sci Fi weapon that basically messes horribly with your Valence electron connections; so you become all disfunctional in the worst possible way.
Gavin and the AAAS are really playing for keeps.
Climate disruption as a public Health issue. Over the weekend, I watched this fascinating “sports” program about a handful of climbers; maybe about six or so; who set out to climb some totally insane mountain peak somewhere; and somewhere in the 22,000 feet range as I recall. In the caourse of this sports show, these guys were all together inside a tent about the size of a dsmart car, hnging from a rope on the side of some ice cliff miles up in the air; in the middle of a howling storm; and they were stuck in there for days; because it was too damn dangerous to come out or even to open the tent flap to see how bad the storm was. And I dare say if anybody jiggled too much, the whole thing likely would have come unstuck and dropped them all some 5,000 feet or so down on to a glacier that they had actually climbed up from up this near vertical wall.
Eventually the weather improved to where they could come out after a week or so, and continue climbing; and the climbing was like walking up the side of the Empire State building. In the end they had to climb another big long near vertical ice wall held on by nothing but their crampons; because there wasn’t any place to stick much of anything. After several days of this during which time several of the chaps took on the task of leading the free climb up this insanity to get the ropes and stuff to the top of the ice; where a very short bare rock climb would put them on the summit.
So they got to the top of this ice wall; and the base of the summit nipple; only to discover that what looked like a simple hop skip and jump up this final pimple; was a rock with not a molecule of ice anywhere on it; for one simple reason. It was pretty much just s thorn sticking up in the air; like the tusk of an elephant; and you probably couldn’t climb it if it was sitting in your back yard; rather tahn 20,000 feet plus up in the death zone; it looked like 100-300 feet high; but nothing these chaps were in any condition to try and climb with what they had remaining in resources. So they wisely decided to give up on that last little step; and maybe come back some other day to try it again.
If they had had parachutes, they could all have simply jumped from where they were and landed at their base camp.
They did toss some bags of equipment down onto the glacier to save carting it down; and then they had to go down this monstrosity.
When they finally got to their basecamp all frost bitten and beat up; they found it had snowed and their whole base camp was buried in snow so they had to try and figure out exactly where they had put the darn thing so they could try and dig it up before nightfall.
Now the whole purpose of this shaggy dog story is to point out that human beings have quite a tolerance for disruptive weather and climate; and it is quite likely that we could figure out how to survive anything smaller than Pluto colliding with the earth.
Why doesn’t the AAAS start a project to try and make their operation seem like Science to the General Lay Public; or even to those of us who have some ideas about what constitutes Science.
It really is worse than we thought.
R.Gates 5:33 p.m.: “AGW skeptics will either be the greatest heros or the greatest fools mankind has ever known…not much room in between.”
What? Skeptics can be neither. All we say is show me. The room in between is The Truth. Bring on the raw data, the analytic methods, and the conclusions — full disclosure. No whitewash when “hide the decline” and “bury the real scientists” is discovered. Then let’s attempt to disprove the theories. Openness, full public discussion, full disclosure of everything that goes into the computer models and how those models have predicted “the climate future” thus far. It is Climate Change Religion that is the current danger.
First Warming, then Climate Change, now Global Climate Disruption:
John Holdren has seized a political option.,
So when shove comes to push,
He can blame it on Bush,
In case of a major volcanic eruption.
This is like telling your investors to buy Brand X stock, as the market will be totally disrupted, and you are going to lose your shirt no matter which way things go. So, you might as well put all your money down on Brand X. Don’t settle for being a little loser, when you might be the lucky one and become a Big Loser, and get bailed out.
has nothing .
rbateman says:
September 16, 2010 at 6:35 pm
Global Climate Disruption… Disruption?
Static Klingons! I knew it. They’re not only firing Disruptors at Earth, they’re firing at the Sun.
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You beat me too it. But I have a CCP and will keep my disrupter handy. Do you prefera 9mm or a .45 disrupter.
How about a 700 meter wide piece of space rock slamming into the Earth. Now that’s climate disruption!
May be off topic, but reading this thread took me to other places:
Someone should send Mr. Holdren to check on the climate in Afganistan to ensure the troops are not subject to climate “disruption”.
May be off topic and snipable, but sometimes when I see people like Holdren spouting off about stuff like this, I think about our men and women from the NATO countries sweating it out in Afganistan, and I wonder about all the people focusing on “Weather” when there are so many other things of current importance we should be spending our time and money on. Of course, in here in Canada, and especially on the prairies, we do start just about every conversation with discussion of the weather.
Still, it would be nice to see some of the Ivory Tower dwellers like Holdren get their boots on the ground. Even at home. Wonder if he has ever gotten dirt on his hands? ( and I mean the silica based kind).
I wish thay would call it global warming again as its freezing down under most of australia is in the grip of a very cold spring middle of australia is the coldest september on record.
“Global Climate Disruption” looks like a term specifically designed to be impervious to any assault based on recorded data or objective facts.
“AGW skeptics will either be the greatest heros or the greatest fools mankind has ever known…not much room in between.”
Ditto for the alarmists.
Didn’t it used to be called that quaint term…
Unseasonable Weather…
And what he really means is Global Climate Deception.
[snip – waay off topic, sorry]
Anyone for ‘Anthropogenic Climate Interference’?
It has occurred to me that the recent change in the favoured terminology, from the dramatically-predictive ‘Global Warming’, to the less-specific ‘Climate Change’ may have been prompted by legal advice.
Those who have been scaring the gullible public into handing over their money, by telling them tales of catastrophic global warming, may now have been warned by their lawyers that if that global warming does not continue, or if it is not sufficiently catastrophic, they may be liable to charges of criminal extortion.
You can get away with that sort of thing if you’re simply threatening hell or promising paradise in the afterlife, because nobody ever comes back to complain that they were really just boringly dead.
But if we don’t actually get further, serious global warming, or if the catastrophic consequences that we have been told to expect do not occur within the given timeframe, the public may demand their money back.
The legal profession could have a field day!
For these elitist statists, the question doesn’t matter.
It’s only the “solution” that counts: a powerful global government which controls all aspects of life and business…. So the elite can run things for the little people.
As long as they get their answer, the question is irrelevant.
Global Warming, Climate Change and now Global Climate Disruption.
They never really had a case, now they have no concensus.
I should call Holdren’s move Political Streaking, Weather or not he’s got his bases covered.
The ’cause’ now has 3 camps in it. They may not see eye to eye on the whether.
I suspect Holdren means , Glibbering Climb Down.
It’s entirely possible that Holdren could be taken to the woodshed over this. “Climate Change” was a carefully selected term, meticulously vetted by marketing research and focus groups. It is universally used by NGOs, Obama himself and virtually all the follows on the eco-Left. Who is this upstart to come along and mess with THEIR chosen nomenclature? I guess we’ll have to wait and see if Holdren’s term catches on or if it will be ignored.
It was a big day for Holdren. We haven’t heard from in a while and then today we have two video releases of him, one promoting this “global climate disruption” nonsense and another (less than 2 months before an election) advocating the “de-development” of the United States. Not exactly politically astute in my estimation. I can’t believe it was simply pre-election sop to the eco-left. That base has nowhere else to turn. But it could very likely put off a lot of independent voters.
I don’t know…it sure seems like a lot of reckless rhetoric.