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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Since climate is chaotic it probably has two Lorenze Attractors. So maybe the new terminology should be: A Strange Attractor Coming Soon to the Globe!
They must’ve seen the prediction for February 2011 at http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/people/wwang/cfs_fcst/images3/glbT2mMon.gif If you think January/February 2008 was bad, 2011 is a disater in the making. BTW, why have updates stopped as of Tuesday? It seems to affect the entire CFS forecast site. Tuesday was also the last update for the Nino 3.4 forecasts as well.
About this “climate disruption”… it’s the old glib-lib-rename-game. If something developes a bad reputation, don’t stop doing it, simply rename it. Remember…
* discrimination against white males, which became…
* reverse discrimination, which became…
* affirmative action
and race quotas, which became “target numbers”? Same principle at work here. Global warming has a lot of negative baggage. So they’re renaming it. Can we come up with a play on “the artist formerly known as Prince”? We need to remind people that this is the same crew, with the same economically disastrous ideology. Howsabout “The Climate Disruption formerly known as Global Warming”?
Your suggestion gets my vote is for most appropriate acronym.
Current Google results for:
“Global Warming” About 21,300,000 results
“Climate Change” About 60,400,000 results
“Global Climate Disruption” About 397,000 results
“Catastrophic Global Warming” About 226,000 results, of which three results on the first page point to articles that do not contain the phrase “Catastrophic Global Warming”
Those articles are at nationalgeographic.com, nasa.gov, scientificamerican.com.
I guess Google just thought they would “adjust” their search AlGoreithm and we wouldn’t notice!
They do this sort of thing for 1 of 2 reasons. They either believe we are too stupid to see through the charade or there are a lot of people out there that are actually too stupid to see through their charade.
Is it possible to “disrupt” a chaotic system?
How would that look?
Would everything suddenly become ordered and predictable?
Holdren believes that everyone born since 1972 (or something) are earthly leaches that should be eliminated. The man is evil and hates people. Especially the people that he is forced to inhabit the earth with. His selfish world view is insane.
President Obama (I refuse to use OhBummer out of respect hehe), being the leader of the free world, has a lot of very very serious business to attend to on a daily basis.
Middle East peace, rise of Iranian nukes, Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, recession/deficits at home etc etc. The man needs some comic relief, rather like monarchs having court jesters…….enter Holdren stage left.
On a serious note, Global Climate Disruption isn’t as bad as REGIONAL Climate Disruption. Remember, the upcoming AR5 will concentrate more on regional predictions, (yes predictions, not projections).
They’ve had 10 years of regional studies via the CLIVAR group. Just imagine if they predict a single monsoonal flood or a regional drought or some such climate extreme. The headlines would be excruciating, “The IPCC predicts Pakistan Floods” “The IPCC predicts heavy snowfall in South France” etc
Ssshhh!!! don’t tell them REGIONAL suits their purposes better.
It tells us something about Obama.
He is the one who got Holdren into the White House.
vukcevic says:
September 16, 2010 at 2:22 pm
The WSO is reporting new facts on the sun’s magnetic polar fields observations, showing sudden steep decline […] it appears that the SC24 maximum is not far off.
If one corrects for projection effects the polar fields at the end of August the past several years have been:
2003 61
2004 58
2005 52
2006 60
2007 55
2008 55
2009 48
2010 44
The slight recent decline is not a harbinger of solar max being just around the corner. Rather we are just the slow decline to the usual reversal sometime in 2013-2014. But, of course, 3-4 years is not ‘far away’.
vukcevic says:
September 16, 2010 at 2:44 pm
Cycle 24 will peak with a SSN of 66, and Cycle 25 will peak with a SSN of 7.
What L&P are saying is that the SSN will no longer be a good measure of solar activity, because most spots will be below the 1500 Gauss that is necessary to make the spot visible, but the magnetic regions will still be there, the solar wind will still be blowing, cosmic rays will still be modulated [as they were during the Maunder Minimum], so solar activity is not going away, just the visible spots.
I can buy the disruption business because that must include all the hobnobs who think they can “fix back” the climate to what it, according to their own buggy model software, statistically homogenized average once was.
It means prison time for the aerosol maniacs, right? Otherwise I take it all back.
If many AGW proponents really wanted an honest term for their position, I suspect it would be “Atmosphere Change” without regard to any proven harmful effects on the climate or the environment in general because *they* believe that any measurable changes in the natural composition of the Earth’s atmosphere caused by man must be inherently irresponsible and in some way deleterious to our ‘sensitive’ natural environment.
For some, I imagine, this issue may be just a tool for accomplishing other ends and they really do not care what it’s called as long as it sounds good.
After the previous talk of reprogramming (sorry educating) us to understand it is man made. Now this new speak it is all getting very George Orwell. I don’t know if we will be the ones on the receiving end of the half hour hate or not but they seem to be working hard on it.
Huge research grants have been awarded – not to find out the facts but to “prove” global warming. Sorry, “Climate Change” – that way the “experts” will be proved right, even if the Earth is actually cooling.
Actually, it’s called “climate change” because a Republican PR consultant called Frank Luntz focused grouped peoples reaction to various words, and discovered that people found the phrase “climate change” less scary than “global warming”. He therefore advised anti-global warming pundits to adopt the phrase and use it exclusively. This they did, and the phrase has now become common. Check out this video for an interview with the man himself.
http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/denialmachine/video.html
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Does changing the description of something actually work? Fox news tried a similar thing a few years ago, trying to turn “suicide bomber” into “homicide bomber”, but it didn’t take.
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In Britain, the public is becoming quite clued up as to what is really going on, and what is being demanded of them:
What we think of whenever the word “Climate” is used…
“Climate” = Corruption; of science, of education, of business, of politics, of administration, of law-making, of publishing, and of communication.
“Climate” = Regulations, new laws, more bureaucrats, and “Climate” is the alibi used by politicians to destroy significant freedoms which have been taken for granted by the public for generations. (Just like their other great alibi “Security”).
“Climate” = The media lying on a massive scale not seen since the end of Communism, scare stories, guilt-tripping, and the industrial-strength brainwashing of children and young adults alike.
And most of all…
“Climate” = TAXES!
Leif Svalgaard says: September 17, 2010 at 12:04 am
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As a scientist of repute you are building too much on single set of measurements (not reproduced anywhere else), the trend during the last few years certainly is not definite or conclusive.
You are jumping to a conclusion far to enthusiastically (possibly motivated by some other reason), your solar fraternity is somewhat in a disarray in understanding of the recent let alone the Maunder minimum. Not another case of ‘cold fusion’?
I wonder, when they run out of climate catastrophe synonyms are we going to be bombarded with metaphors?
They’ve entered the truly silly politico phase where they’ve moved beyond folks shaking their head to simply laughing at them. And not in a good way laughing.
Think of the political slogans and sayings. Holdren testifies before Congress and states “There’s too much global climate distruptin’ goin’ on out there and it must be stopped!” (hat tip to one of the those old, dead, flowery southern Senators). He likely will get a Nobel if he doesn’t laugh, combs his hair, and shaves.
Will Global Climate Disruption continue after Holdren has managed to “De-Develop” the United States?
Anthony, you have missed two marketings terms in your graphic above.
1. —> Global Cooling
2. Global Warming
3. Climate Change
4. —> Global Weirding – dropped, reflected too closely the type of guys behind it.
5. Global Climate Disruption
The antonym of disruption is calm, so this new marketing speak is to insinuate that Global Climate Calm is the norm. They dig deeper and deeper. We need to embrace the term “Global Climate Disruption”, because it is the laughing stock of all terms to date, unless they start to use, Bold, Bold Climate.
‘Global Climate Disruption’, AKA ‘unusual weather effects’, can presumably be made to work as a public meme if the public’s experience of weather is normally associated with sudden, violently changeable, or extreme phenomena.
However, this may not have much traction for those of us whose lifetime stand-out memories of climate/weather events are associated with periods of stability. In the UK the periods which stick in my mind are: i) the winter of 62/63, where there were three months of continuous snow including two weeks where the daytime temperature never got above freezing, ii) the summer of ’76 with no rain for 14 weeks and temperatures as high as 90F (~35C), iii) the summer of ’88 where it rained steadily with complete cloud cover (no sun) for over a month.
The disruption comes not from the peaks of extreme cold/heat/rain, but from its stability in the respective mode. Now if John Holdren really wanted to get me onside, he should be peddling the line that increasing CO2 somehow caused the weather to be more likely to flip between differently damaging modes, and stay in those modes for much longer than the normal. This would be good from his point of view in that factual temperatures/rainfall/sunshine-hours, would not matter, just the relative length of time it was hot-cold/rainy/sunny/cloudy.
Has no-one made the connection with the UK Met Office new study of “extreme weather” versus time that was written about on this very site ? Clearly this is all connected behind the scenes.
They know full well that the warming hypothesis is about to be exposed by the facts. So they have to change tack to fiddling the figures on the frequency of undesirable weather instead !
Conveniently, the new name has the same acronym as Global Climate Disorder, which may well be added to a psychiatric manual in the future (although it would probably have to be a skeptic’s manual).
(cont.)
This could lead to any number of whimsical conversations, like:
“We’re all gonna suffer because of GCD!”
“No, it’s just you who are suffering from GCD.”