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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WH Science Czar ‘Global Warming’ is ‘Dangerous Misnomer’
h/t to Dave from our moderation team.
Oft times disruption is a good thing. Dynamic systems often settle into sub-optimal steady states. The optimum can never be acheived unless the system is somehow disrupted.
Given the great net benefit of increasing CO2 and warmer temperatures to the primary producers in the food chain the anti-disruptionists won’t get the right handle on it until they call it “Global Climate Improvement”. Global Climate Improvement doesn’t preclude there being some losers among the winners – you can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs. The take-home lesson is that there are far more winners than losers in Global Climate Improvement. As Commander Spock serving on the Starship Enterprise once said “The needs of the many must outweigh the needs of the few.” Clearly the needs of the many are a warmer world with higher CO2 partial pressure to say nothing of needing an economical source of energy. This must outweigh the needs of the few.
or,
“It’s GCD! It’s GCD!”
“Which GCD, damnit, which GCD?”
A disruption, …thats a temporary thing …ain’t it ?
ah the new sheep in wolves’ clothing
Does the new name come with a snappy new logo as well?
From: Allen on September 16, 2010 at 3:51 pm
Here in Pennsylvania, the Democrat ads against Senate candidate Toomey and House candidate Barletta are mainly focused on how Bush tried to privatize Social Security. A topic they boringly pushed for the previous three Congressional election cycles, despite “privatize” being mis-used to being an untruth (it was a an option to divert part of your payroll deductions to carefully-chosen market-based funds). Oh, and Pat Toomey was a Wall Street executive, at a time when we’d appreciate having anyone in DC who knows anything about making real money.
Meanwhile the Republicans are getting good traction campaigning against anyone who voted for the job-killing energy bill…
Holdren should just go directly to “Evil Climate Upheaval of Evil” and leave it at that. It’ll appropriately ratchet up the anxiety levels; and it’ll save a bundle on letterhead in the long run.
“I have a new name for Mr. Holdren, sort of like a superhero name: “Johnny Desperate”.”
Great new name, I laughed out loud!
Well. We are having a little local climate disruption here in southern Alberta this morning. It’s snowing. Ordinarily we would all be greeting each other with the common sardonic expression “Love this Global Warming, eh?”. The Climate Change terminology never really reached the street. Perhaps I’ll try “How about this Global Climate Disruption, eh?” this morning with people I meet to see if the new term has legs. But I expect I’ll get an annoyed look of frustration back with “You mean this blankety blank Global Warming don’t you, eh?”. It’s going to be an uphill battle to dislodge Global Warming as the “man on the street” term for whatever it is the Harden is selling. And the man on the street doesn’t even have to look out the window or study the science to know the jig is up on Global Warming. It has become a common culture joke of global proportions. One of the things that ties us together as a global community. Thanks Al and James and Phil and Gavin et. al. for providing this great bonding experience. Of course it would be nice if the Prime Ministers, Presidents and Senators of the world would look out the window, or even get down on the street once in a while to see that the people are not following the logic of rushing into a crippling reversal of human progress to right a wrong that isn’t happening. Although I guess, in a real way, changing the cry of wolf to Global Climate Disruption, and declaring that “Global Warming” is a dangerously wrong term is, in a real sense, just such an admission. They are backing down. Not honestly or gracefully. But they are are backing away if you think about it, all the while screaming and waving their arms in great meaningless bluster, as one might, backing away from a large wild animal. A real wild animal.
I forgot to mention that the recommended therapy for GCD is chilling out.
And I forgot to thank Mike. He’s done so much.
Vuk etc. says:
September 17, 2010 at 1:26 am
As a scientist of repute you are building too much on single set of measurements (not reproduced anywhere else)
Not at all: slide 14 of http://www.leif.org/research/SHINE-2010-Microwave-Flux.pdf
is the strongest argument. L&P is just the confirmation, and also the TSI calculation [slide 15].
Holdrens lecture at the Kavli -sympiosum in Oslo recently:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/jph-kavli-9-2010.pdf
It is a RETRO to me! I used to live under a communist dictatorship. Ono of the top sacral value was so called socialistic social order which should be always protected against disruption. If someone had committed anything politically incorrect it was declared as a disruptive act. Everybody was call upon to be on guard against disruptions. There was also watch-cry: “We won’t allow our socialism to be disrupted.”
The prepared climatic socialism is the longer the more similar to the Bolshevik socialism.
Simplified definitions:
Too hot = GCD
Too cold = GCD
Too humid = GCD
Too dry = GCD
Too windy = GCD
Too calm = GCD
GCD = OCD + (1984)^2 + WTF^3
Global Warming is a dangerous misnomer. I thought of that this morning (Sept 17th!) when I brushed the snow off the car!
“Global Climate Disruption”
That way no matter what happens -he predicted it.
When the temperature changes, it will either be hotter or colder. Take my word for it -I’ve never been wrong.
Yes, the elitists will never stop believing they’re smarter than the rest of us – smart enough to keep us in thrall just by changing the Newspeak terminology yet again.
Heads up you miserable b*stards: you’re wrong on all counts.
[There was nothing in this message – don’t try to use tags – Anthony]
Robert of Ottawa says:
September 16, 2010 at 5:51 pm
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.
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On the other hand: with negative feedbacks and a thermostat
effect as skeptics suggest, how to explain the great & abrupt climate
variability events of the past, which you love to invoke?
Here is a cartoon I drew for this, not sure how to embed an image?
http://minnesotansforglobalwarming.com/m4gw/2010/09/16/GlobalClimateDisruption.jpg
I think Kate got it right. A little OT but can’t we get the Tea Party interested in Global Warming? Here in the Northern lattitudes of the UK, I would much appreciate a little warming being a bus pass holder (over 60). I still work for my living and at 7am I am stood waiting for the bus it feels really chilly – God knows what Jan and Feb will be like. So for global warming, I’m all in favour. Bring on those coal powered generating stations.
Seriously, the warmists have it wrong. We are heading in to a down turn in temprature. They have to realise it’s not the CO2 – it’s the bloody Sun and the sunspot activity. In my declining years, I do not look forward to a colder Earth – get that CO2 going. And I would guess that the Tea Party draws most of its support from the 50+ age group who have lived a little bit. So get ’em going – we need more CO2 and a warmer climate. Oops, did I mean weather?
Gary Hladik says: reminds at least some people of Agent Maxwell Smart’s evil foe, CHAOS.
Wasn’t that Kaos? It was a long time ago for me (for anyone who remembers it).
GCD – Great Cow Dung!!
galileonardo said on the 16th at 2:46 pm
I propose Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Anomalies, or CACA for short.
CACA!! I love it!
And as the sun is the source of our atmosphere’s energy how about – Interplanetary Climate Exuberance, or ICE for short. Then some day soon we might read a headline that says: NASA Says Global ICE Producing Massive CACA!
I think the new symbol of GCD will be the polo mallet, as the hockey-stick of the global warming/climate change of yore has been thoroughly debunked. And we do want to stay with team sport instruments for traditional reasons.
The polo mallet has numerous advantages for GCD:
1. The end goes both up and down, and therefore can’t be debunked as easiy as the hockey stick.
2. The hammer shape symbolizes disruption much better.
3. Rotating it 45 degrees, shortening the handle and crossing it with a sickle is a simple modification for the next step in the movement.