My friend Kate in Saskatchewan is running a poll on what the next name might be. Here’s a screencap of the poll choices.
My own personal favorite in “Irritable Climate Syndrome”.
You can vote here.
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” Kirly says:
September 19, 2010 at 9:56 am
WMD – Weather of Mass Destruction.”
Applause. Sustained applause. Standing ovation.
That response is worthy of its primary position.
Consider the background as to why WMD has become a well-known acronym.
And when the weather rock is green & slippery, its been rainy-misty-foggy for some months or years.
Climate, with a risk of weather?
My own entry would have been: “Planet in Peril” or something like that. It has the usual wheedling and weeping that accompanies most hysterical propaganda. “Protect the Hive!” is perhaps more fitting, given their inability to convince even themselves.
“Planetary Climate Pandemic!”
Even better… PCP.
And never mind the content of Kate’s site. She’s kinda our Ann Coulter. Best taken with hard liquor.
I like ‘Death Weather.”
How about….
“Every Bad Weather Incident Is Your Fault From Now On Because You Are Pure Evil But If You Send Us A Bunch Of Money Then It’s Okay Thx Bye”
Peak Weather may have some actual legs, given the obsession with Peak Oil.
netdr says:
Acronym warning. Fearmongers’ Universal Climate Kerfuffle.
Give the former divinity student a moral crusade — climate degeneration. Then he can work the marks up a bit with global climate degeneration. And when he wants ’em in a frenzy, pour it on with anthropogenic global climate degeneration.
And then there’s:
M orphing
A nthropological
D estruction
With credit to The Register:
Thermageddon
Global Climate Instability – is ‘instability’ more scary than ‘disruption’?
I do like Irritable Climate Syndrome though.
I thought of ‘calamitology’ the other day for climate change research, only to find 680 hits already via Google. I thought it was too good not to have someone else already suggest it.
The next naming will have no reference to climate. It will be:
Anthropogenically Changed Earth
ACE
John
John
They will try to get back to their roots, but due to brain damage they will not quite remember the words, and will call it “Global Warning.”
No matter how they try to change things I insist upon using the original phrase, “Global Warming.” I find it really irritates some Alarmists.
Given my anti-sesquipedalianist bent, I’ll go along with Anthony and vote for ICS.
Why not be honost about it? Make mankind feel guilty about existing tax. Or,
Anthropogenic Climate Gone Wild. Now on DVD. Sure to win all awards weather they exist or not.
Off topic but I couldn’t help commenting on the true believer in AGW, Dr Dotty Rowe, who is listed as one of the “100 geniuses” on earth. She talks of climate change deniers. I’ve put a posting on her moderated blog but I’m sure it will be whitewashed (blanked).
http://www.mindfood.com/at-dorothy-rowe-depression-mental-health.seo
David Ball says: “Picked up a great new book on anti-gravity. Couldn’t put it down!
It’s full of levity.
‘Climaticum al forno’
…. okay, so I’ve been spending too much time checking fossil species lists and just had pizza!
I blame Linnaeus.
CNN has been using “Planet in Peril” for a couple of years at least.
As I look at the global mean temperature trend for the 20th century, I see a cyclical pattern as shown in the following graph.
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut3vgl/from:1880/to:1910/trend/plot/hadcrut3vgl/from:1910/to:1940/trend/plot/hadcrut3vgl/from:1940/to:1970/trend/plot/hadcrut3vgl/from:1970/to:2000/trend
And since 1998, the global warming rate is zero at 0.4 deg C as shown in the following graph.
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut3vgl/from:2000/to:2010/trend/plot/hadcrut3vgl/from:2000/to:2010
What is this consternation about this theory of “Global Climate Disruption”?
Mutual Anthropogenic Disruption (MAD)
Make it clear it is EVERYONE’S fault so EVERYONE must pay to fix it!
Hey you, destitute West African villager! Why are you trying to cut down that tree? Don’t you realize that’s a biological carbon capture and sequestration unit? Are you trying to kill EVERYBODY?
Hey, don’t forget, it’s not only about the weather (or climate etc.)!!
How about “Ocean Assidification”?
Just an observation and to quote!
“The pen is mightier than the sword”. [Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
It is most noticeable that over the last few months, a change has come to the comments on anything to do with Global Warming / Climate Change / Climate Disruption in the skeptical and even the luke warmer’s blogs.
The comments are increasingly tinged and coloured with increasing levels of confidence and sarcasm towards the various claims and proclamations of the Wamistas and Doomers, something that is becoming ever more evident every-time the apparent desperation of the Warmists and Doomers causes them to resort to changing their descriptions of the supposedly imminent global climate catastrophe to even more apparently doom laden descriptions such as Holdren’s “Climate Disruptions”.
The appearance of this increasingly confident and somewhat sarcastic trend in the skeptic’s comments towards the warmista / doomster’s camp is a big shift from the quite defensive attitudes of the skeptics prior to Climategate.
The new and somewhat desperate description “Climate Disruptions” is a total non goer with the public as it does not have a ring to it which the public can identify with and in any case, it is now too late in the act to yet again change the description of the climate horse during mid race and expect the public to keep on swallowing it.
About all the attempted introduction of the new description will do is to reinforce the public’s perception that the whole of the claims on the supposedly imminent catastrophic global warming has again, for the second time in months, morphed into something completely different.
And in doing so the Warmista’s and Doomers are losing even more credibility.
From the public’s point of view it is all becoming just so much more political hype and spin, particularly coming from the likes of Holdren who is seen as right in the thick of politics and all that entails.
If the Warmistas and the Doomers can’t even stick to one description of the fate that supposedly awaits us, a fate that the public is still waiting to see any evidence at all that it might actually exist, and a fate that even the most aggressive of the Doomers has to keep changing the name of then the whole global warming debacle and scam is in the first phase of what will be a long drawn out, very messy and very nasty but ultimately the final death throes of this whole debacle.
The real consequence of the Great Global Warming Scam will be a very substantial loss of trust in science and scientists for at least a generation.
Perhaps a necessary happening in that it will remove the preening group of self indulgent practitioners of climate science from that elevated pedestal on which they have in their own estimation been entitled to elevate themselves to in recent times and that in their opinion towers far above the smelly and somewhat uncouth throng far beneath them.
A very high proportion of that smelly and uncouth bunch who have to pay for all of this have about had enough of warmista science shenanigans and the constant exhortations of the climate Doomsayers all of whom are now increasingly seen to have their snouts deep in the public trough and intend to keep it there.
Yep! The Pen is Mightier than the [ political! ] Sword.
It is just that it will take a little longer to destroy the cult but it also ensures that there will be no tragic heroes left from the sword carrier’s for the believers to mourn over.