Back in 2010, I pointed out that White House science adviser John Holdren had made a shift in naming conventions for the twice renamed “global warming”.
It seems that another shift in the lexicon has occurred, again at the White House. Organizing for Action, President Obama’s campaign machine declared Tuesday that there was a new name.
The Washington Times picked up on this shift, and I’ve updated the graphic to reflect the new name. There’s also a poll to choose/predict the next name after this one.
The doomed planet movement has been losing momentum. Inconvenient scientific findings have confirmed the lack of any significant warming of dear old Earth over the past 16 years. It’s hard to scare people into action when nothing bad is happening. That’s why the White House has changed its vocabulary again — first “global warming” was changed to “climate change” — and now the correct name of the scam is “carbon pollution.” It’s a way to paint carbon dioxide as if it were black soot billowing out of industrial smokestacks. Carbon dioxide is actually what humans exhale, and it’s food for plants.
Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/13/wearing-out-words/#ixzz2c3XmuaV7
Its seems that since global warming has stalled, and scientists are puzzled by it, plus major players in science are poo-pooing the “climate disruption/extreme weather angle, they had no choice but to make a lexicon shift.
Here is the updated graphic to reflect the lexicon shift. Feel free to share far and wide:
What should the next name be? Take the poll, you can also add your own answer. Be sure to post your new answer in comments. (I’ll add some of the best ones manually)
[NOTE: for some reason the poll won’t display other answers from voters in the voting or the results, so I disabled it – A]
h/t to Small Dead Animals for some of the names
Irritable Climate Syndrome………
Chronologically compromised climate.
“Irritable Climate Syndrome” is perfect!
It will cover almost anything anywhere, just so long as someone can claim someone might be irritated……
Heck, even a pleasant sunny day can now be included in the hysteria ….
Climate cooling………..perhaps?
Ahhhh. The assumption that climate is in a steady state, ergo any bad weather amounts to an anthropogenic ‘disruption’. Because when we see unoccupied planets such as Mars and Jupiter, we see that climate is indeed in a steady state. Oh wait. It isn’t. It dramatically changes from day to day, year to year. I think I just proved these planets are occupied!
Premature carbonation.
Climate Stabilization.
This is terrible though for the IPCC – Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Will it now be called IPCP? It does have a nice ring to it.
Scary Movie 2100
pat says:
August 15, 2013 at 10:00 am
Ahhhh. The assumption that climate is in a steady state, ergo any bad weather amounts to an anthropogenic ‘disruption’. Because when we see unoccupied planets such as Mars and Jupiter, we see that climate is indeed in a steady state. Oh wait. It isn’t. It dramatically changes from day to day, year to year. I think I just proved these planets are occupied!
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By humans, no less.
cn
Climate Weirding …… Nice and vague, but scary at the same time
I voted “Climate Gait” – as in climate marches on…
Carbonated Climate Colitis with a large side order of Taxes……..
Shure we will get global cooling over the next 20 years
“Anthropogenic Global Cooling,” of course.
For some time now, AGW has stood for
All Gone Wrong
That just about sums it up in two words.
I nearly chose Frankenclimate since “Franken-” is in fashion now (e.g. Frankenfood), but Irritable Climate Syndrome is just so good. It ought carry us to Cooling Climate Syndrome and on to the Cooling Climate Calamity.
I endorse ICS as well (first proposed by Latitude).
Oh, you have got so many good choices there! I almost went with Climate Flacidity in honor of the New York Mayor’s race, but Irritable Climate Syndrome won me over.
Climate kerfuffle.
How about Grant Whores Do DC?
The Climatyville Horror
Climate Anschluss, when the OFA hordes will join the S(k)S battalions and annex Canada (ostensibly, to stop Keystone XL)
Oh no it has to be Climate Jihad because whatever they call it we are all gonna die if we do not submit to the AGW religion. Case closed!
What new Ice age?? I don’t believe it. I am paid by the government.
Public Health Issue – the bland rebrand suggested by Time magazine on 8/8/13: http://healthland.time.com/2013/08/08/rebranding-climate-change-as-a-public-health-issue/#ixzz2bPKhuqyL
CCC — Catastrophic Climate Corruption
No matter what you call it, if you can’t settle on a freaking name, you obviously can’t have much of a theory to hang it on. “Dang, that’s not working….let’s see now…”
Anthropogenic sh!t science
I voted for ‘Other’ – Climate Instability Crisis.
I can see it on the evening news now… “The weather today is different from yesterday! We had thunderstorms yesterday and all of a sudden, IT’S SUNNY and WARM!!! It’s worse than we thought! What more PROOF of Climate Instability do you need? We must act now!”
I liked the humor in the poll, but I took a shot at where they really might go with a new term.
Real Name in a Deniers world like mine is Natural Climate Variations.
To real to use in Obama world.
The may like this one
Obamaclimatecare
Climate Cancer. Since they peddle fear, why not go for the gold?
The greatest challenge for civilization:
How can we care for the poor as we do ourselves?
2nd challenge:
Can we generate enough global warming to avoid the impending glaciation?
If this standstill goes on much longer than the current 17 years (or whatever) there must come a point where it is a problem not merely for the warmers but also for the lukewarmers, which probably includes me. This climate is indeed a menace.
Destructive Earth Annihilating Temperature Emergency
I went for Climate Dysfunction. Might get a rise out of Bob Dole.
Screwed up….
Destructive Earth Annihilating Temperature Hellification
The important point that MUST NOT be lost is that the claimed climate symptoms are based on the falsified hypothesis that carbon dioxide retains heat in the atmosphere to such a degree that it increases the rate of the hydrologic cycle and this in turn acts as a runaway positive feedback.
Changing the words for the hypothesis does not alter the fact that it is falsified. It should also not be a game that scientists play. Like consensus, marketing and focus groups to choose effective names for a hypothesis, are NOT the scientific method. Surely, this statement should be repeated “the names are unscientific attempts to hide the falsification of the hypothesis”, and followed with the question – “what has changed in your hypothesis on the effect of increased atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide?” As ALL the actions being taken are to reduce anthropogenic output of carbon dioxide, it is evident that there is no change in the hypothesis – just yet another marketing led political exercise to obfuscate the hypothesis’ failure as indicated by the cessation of warming in the last fifteen years.
I vote for ICS irritable climate syndrom
The real answer, which I added at the bottom is ……..
“Carbon Cooling”
Search your feelings my young apprentice ……… you know it to be true …… Heh Heh Heh Heh Heh,
Well, I picked Climate Gone Wild, but I also liked Irritable Climate Syndrome and Weather, but now with taxes. One of my co-workers suggested Climatastrophe.
Had to go with Peak Weather, as it captures the fear mongering over both the non-static nature of nature and the economics of energy. Got to admit, though, that Weather, but now with Taxes was pretty high on my personal humor scale.
A mannly rise?
The next name is HillaryClimate, no space.
Normal and natural climate fluctuation
I was doubting between “The Sixth Sensitivity” or “the Father Karras no-return Temperature”… but when I decided on the first, it was disabled. So I voted for “Irritable Climate Syndrome”. Very funny, and also sad ultimately.
“Climate Jihad” doesn’t describe what his happening to the climate.
But it perfectly describes the religious zeal of those want to forbid inexpensive energy.
George Formby had it right. It’s turned out nice again!
Added Lucia’s and Chris NJSnowFan to the choices.
“It is worse than we thought “weather
or
“The unprcedented warming that never came” weather
The ever changing nomenclature is the result of widespread “OCD” (Obsessive Compulsive Disinformation)
Perhaps the next name for ‘Global Warming’ will be ‘The reason climate data is no longer subjected to public scrutiny’.
“Climate Confusion”
or
“Catastrophic Climate Confusion Panic”
CCCP for short.
Climate HanSolofication
Climate Witch’s Revenge
Climate Mandate to go with ethanol mandate, health care mandate, hiring mandates, gun mandates, debt limit mandates, and gender mandates (all five of them).
While not a part of the choices, if one starts thinking about this further, then Man is a pollution. All animal life is a pollution. Almost all life (I understand they found some non-carbon based life in the lakes under the Antarctic Ice sheet) is pollution.
I guess V-Ger will be swooping in shortly to clean the planet.
I might not have the name that will be used to scare Americans… but I might have the name geologist might use for our epoch… “If the last two natural warm periods were named the “Roman Warm Period” and “Medieval Warm Period”, what will geologist and historians of the future name the current period of warmth? How does “American Warm Period” or “Technological Warm Period” sound, or perhaps in light of the actions of the main stream media and environmentalist the “Hysterical Warm Period” would be a better choice.” I came up with this, in 2010 when writing a paper for university, it seems pretty appropriate when looking at the last 7 years of climate history.
It’s clear for all to see what carbon pollution has achieved. See it here and weep oh Earthlings. You are destroying the biosphere with this noxious toxin. All hope is lost.
“Climate Inequality” because it’s simply not fair that some people have better climate than others
a little long, but …
Weather “scientists” still need the government grants, dude!
Climitile Dysfunction.
Climatile. Would be funnier if I spelled it right.
Politicised Statistical Fabrication
Even though it has only 2 votes at this point, 1 of them mine – I after all don’t follow the crowd nor believe consensus is healthy! – had to vote for the one that made me chuckle the most. D.E.A.T.H.
Well I vote for letting the team chose their own name, for in undermining their cause they have no peers.
Carbon Pollution has a nice ring to it; Until you stop and consider that we are carbon based lifeforms.
This meme allows doubters, such as myself, to refer to advocates as a “nasty waste of carbon”.
This cannot be slander as they chose to call carbon in its many compounds a pollutant.
The irony of a carbon based life form , campaigning to outlaw carbon dioxide emissions is naturally lost on the zealots.
Carbon Injustice would, I think, fit in nicely with similar progressive memes.
And it can’t possibly be disproven since it means nothing.
Climate abuse?
Anthony, you forgot ‘Crazy Weather’ after ‘Climate Disruption’ on your graphic.
Greenhouse growers are to be arrested on mass due to their willful infusions of a highly toxic gas into greenhouses. In the meantime paleo records tell us that carbon dioxide will ravage the tropical forests around the world. We must act now for goodness sake.
Geologically our world is currently at the low end of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. When it was hight life and greenery thrived like there was no tomorrow.
Climate Hate-Crime
Climate Sin
Climate Immorality
Climate Abuse
Climate Buggery
Global Climate Disruption ?!?!?!
Selling yet another dead parrot
“Wrath of Gaia” or “Angry Gods who punish us for our sins”
Just use Rush Limbaugh’s retitling of Al Bore’s book…..Earth in the Lurch.
Those describing carbon as a pollutant on a planet covered with carbon based life forms cannot be called alarmist…….. they must be Alien.
Rotten Climate!
Not only do we need a new name for global warming but a new prayer.
Our Co2, which art in heaven,
Damned be thy name,
Thy power be gone,
Emissions be none,
On Earth as as well as in heaven,
Give us this day our daily rations,
And forgive us our emissions,
As we forgive those who emit against us,
and lead us not into electrification,
but deliver us from evil dioxides,
For his is the kingdom, the power and the Al Glorey for ever and ever, Carbon.
I withdraw my suggestion of “carbon injustice” as a quick Google search shows it to be already in use, apparently in all seriousness.
So hard to keep up.
Got a couple
Climazilla, Climax and my personal favorite “World War C”
Call it what it most likely is: The End Holocene.
I like: “It’s SO Frikken COLD!!!!!”
“Super-Climate-Fragilistic-Expect-The-Most-Atrocious”
Mary Poppins, Disney and Fantasy-land. Sums it up quite nicely.
@Mike Doner – YOu got a winner as well!
An amendment to my previous post (Rotten Climate): Climate Rot!
“Inconvenient Weather” seems appropriate in many ways.
ClimaTaxation
The end result of the political, non-science nonsense campaigns.
Climate Later
In Sweden the MSM have already chosen the new term it is “Chaos Weather”.
Whenever there is a thunderstorm, or an ordinary storm, or a blizzard, or downpour, or three or more warm days in a row, then the dread CHAOS WEATHER has struck again.
Earth clearly has a case of Climate Crabs
How about Temperature Dysfunction? You can take a pill (tax) to increase cash flow to the government and cause it to expand …
Climate flatulence – it stinks
If Carbon pollution goes, so must Water pollution (simplified for Water Vapor pollution; water vapor being the strongest greenhouse gas). A water-polluted atmosphere.
Climatic Church of the Goracle
Irritable Climate Syndrome is already a human condition. It’s almost always a self-inflicted
one at that.
Communist Climate Control–for taxing and controlling the masses, using weather as an excuse.
That’s what this is all about, right?
A choice should be:
C.O.O.L.I.N.G.
Climatically Omitted Overheating Loses to Industrial Gases
John
I like CCC: Carbon Compromised Climate.
How about we just call it Desperate Rampant Important Virtual Extreme Lies. Drivel for short.
Cult Against Strengthening Humanity.
Cash for short.
Anal Gore: The Climate Porn peddled by Al Gore & Co.
“Weather”
Carbon Disruption.
It covers all bases, suitably vague it doesn’t even offer to make any predictions. Disruption is a bad thing and to be fought against, it doesn’t have to be defined clearly. Carbon we know is bad and something has to be done about it. Even sceptics can agree we are seeing Carbon Disruption in the form of levies and ill-judged measures to tackle climate change.
Weather!
CCC – crony climate control
Deadly Ravaging Important Vicious Extreme Lies. DRIVEL
I guess that “Irritable Climate Syndrome” is the cause of all the wind!
Climatic perturbator
Anthropogenic Global Climate Lexical Instability
Unauthorized weather or illegal weather, to make room for the Trial Lawyers Assoc. and related donor bundlers
It will include the word ‘carbon’ and eschew ‘climate’ as passé. Pollution is all about messing with the purity of nature unbounded, so I suggest:
CARBON CONTAMINATION
as a realistic and sufficiently scary upgrade to CAGW 4.0
Chicago Weather…….or I’ll break your face!
Russell Cook (@questionAGW) says:
August 15, 2013 at 10:24 am
Public Health Issue – the bland rebrand suggested by Time magazine on 8/8/13: http://healthland.time.com/2013/08/08/rebranding-climate-change-as-a-public-health-issue/#ixzz2bPKhuqyL
“MORE: Infectious Disease Could Become More Common In a Warmer World—Especially for Plants and Animals”
“According to a recent study, framing global warming as a public health issue rather than as an environmental or national security one produces the most emotionally compelling response among people, since it focuses on the immediate implications a warmer climate could have on people’s lives.”
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Are these people serious?
It just sounds so touchy feely.
It’s how you frame the conversation never mind the weakness of the facts.
What kind of disease can you get if you’re not a plant or an animal?
Now this is junior high level research.
cn
Show me the money climatology
Carbon Dioxide Hyperclimivity Disorder (CDHD)
Deep Water Acidification (Hey, temperature is so last decade, and, who can call you a liar?)
Man-made Climate Unpredictability (With the current computer models, this one will actually be true.)
fretslider says:August 15, 2013 at 10:12 am
“For some time now, AGW has stood for: All Gone Wrong”
No, fretslider…it means Al Gore’s Wrong
1) Severe Climate AMelioration or SCAM
2) Climate Phrenology
3) Climate Reconstruction and Pragmatism or CRAP
I’m not sure what new, deceptive term they’ll come up with next, but based on past performance we can call them the cult of Catastrophic Anthropogenic Genocidal Warmistas. That’s what CAGW really means.
PTWS has a nice sound and acronym to it
Snowball Earth. Why invent a new name when you can just recycle the name preferred by the 1970s alarmists?
Carbonated Climate Catastrophy sounds bubbly
Nice to see the two specifically ad-hominem names near last (Obama and Dana), plus the german world war two reference losing (blitzkreig). The ability to keep one object of contempt untangled from others is admirable.
Would a CNN poll about what to rename the ongoing arab spring in Egypt be dominated by sipes at a politician six years out of office? Hurrah for not replumbing old cisterns at WUWT!
Yup, “Irritable Climate Syndrome” made me laugh.
I chose “Climate Gone Wild” because it reminds me of “Girls Gone Wild” and is equally silly.
Must be “hot air”
“Snowball Earth”. Just recycling the 1970s scare.
Climate Bacon…….and give me all you’ve got.
Climate Materialism
Irritable Climate Syndrome sounds good to me too.
Dear Mr. President:
RE: Associating CO2 with carbon pollution
It is my understanding the “carbon pollution” is the new catchword for you will regard to the issue of CO2-induced climate change these days. Well sir, are you assuming that the American people are so ignorant that they do not understand the difference between carbon and CO2 such that CO2 is supposed to be some evil form of carbon pollution? Well Mr. President, allow me this time to inform you that I happen to remember some material from the basic physics courses that I took in high school and college more years back than I care to admit to. I happen to remember that carbon is an atom and one of the basic elements of the Periodic Table. CO2 is a molecule consisting of one atom of carbon and two atoms of oxygen. I remember Mr. President that carbon is the black sooty stuff the combustion process leaves behind, while CO2 is a colorless, odorless and tasteless gas that is a very necessary component of the Earth’s atmosphere for the existence and sustenance of life on this planet (see, I know some biology too). If your scientific advisors did not inform you of this, well then I strongly recommend you find some new ones. Yes, really I’m available if you are interested. Any six-figure salary will do.
If this is all new to you, there is no need to thank me. If, on the other hand, it is your intention here to pull the scientific wool over everyone’s eyes, well…..I guess we can discuss that when you hire me.
BTW Mr. President, you are aware that that there has been no global warming now for going on 17 years according to the satellites, aren’t you? Maybe that’s something else your “science advisors” didn’t get around to telling you. That’s why I would be more than happy to take the place of one of them. My scientific credentials are very weak at best, but I would probably still be an improvement. Feel free to call any time, Mr. Prez.
How about
A- Anthropogenic ( because it is all humankinds fault)
C- Climate ( the average of exteme weather measurements)
I- Instability ( because the climate changes ( which is an oxymoron as climate is the average of weather). Therefore is is the weather that varies, not climate, as climate is effectively the first differential product )
D- Dilemma ( a problem that needs resolving by govt. intervention (how much we can tax before people get wise?)
Maybe not the best suggestion but I rather like the potnetial headline
” IPCC on acid.” 🙂
Extreme climate normality
Climate Kong……sounds better than Climate Mothra
Climatax.
Personally, I would go with “The negative anthropogenic influence on the unpredictable natural chaotic behavior of a complex system with multiple known and unknown non-linear feedback mechanisms global climate warming disruption change”.
But that may be a bit of a mouth full… Therefore, I like these best in order of preference:
1. Irritable Climate Syndrome
2. Climatyville Horror (I almost spit my organic, non-gmo, certified level 7 vegan, extract-of-bark-and-dirt tea all over my off-grid, hemp powered laptop on this one…)
3. Climate Kerfuffle (Although, if this one is chosen, “Climate” should be spelled “Klimate”, just to show that even though we are all doomed, we still have style.)
4. Climate Jihad
‘Bad things happen ‘ that way you cover anything you don’t like , or to make sure ‘things happen ‘
on way that one can be proved wrong .
KevinM says:
August 15, 2013 at 12:23 pm
“Would a CNN poll about what to rename the ongoing arab spring in Egypt be dominated by [snipes] at a politician six years out of office? Hurrah for not replumbing old cisterns at WUWT!”
Obama isn’t out of office; and Diana and John’s Blitzkrieg was last week. What are ye complaining about?
Climate Witchcraft.
War on Carbon.
Climatological Obesity.
Pollutical Incorrectness.
I’ve seen the name “Thermageddon” in the past somewhere.
Climate Radiation Crisis.
If any Climate Communication Expert rent seeker reads this: You dimwits have completely overlooked that the alleged Global Warming is caused by radiation; namely LWIR; and that anthro-CO2 increases said radiation. And what do we use when we want to scare the public? Xactly; R-a-d-i-a-t-i-o-n.
Doom Du Jour.
Climate turmoil
Neil says:
August 15, 2013 at 12:44 pm
” War on Carbon.”
War On Cars.
O2bnaz says:
August 15, 2013 at 11:12 am
“Climate Inequality” because it’s simply not fair that some people have better climate than others
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Ha ha, but climate can be redistributed. Check out Steig et al., among others.
Earth Climate Destruction
philjourdan says:
August 15, 2013 at 10:14 am
I endorse ICS as well (first proposed by Latitude).
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So far I’m winning!…………LOL
…guess it was worth getting kicked off of Weatherunderground for using it!
CCCCCCCCCC — Chaotic Catastrophic Climate Corruption Caused by Contemptible Conniving Carbon Consuming Conservatives
Anthropogenic Climate Pause
How about “Global Tantrums” (as seen in alarmists everywhere)?
doubleplusungood
This has been loads of fun. But we all know that the next name will be “Little Ice Age”
Otteryd says:
August 15, 2013 at 12:34 pm
Extreme climate normality
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I had already thought of ” Extreme Climate” since it is already in use, waiting in the wings for the right time. Our new EPA administrator, Ms. McCarthy, has just stated that it is “obvious” from the “extreme” weather that we need to do something about it now. However, I think this term is not as clever or original as the others.
Restless Climate Syndrome.
CCCCCCCCCC = C^10
Just like to remind you guys.. by disrupting the moral authority of the socialists ‘we’ are forcing them to pick their own as they did with Hillary vs Obama primary elections. By votes Hillary won the primary don’t forget.
Elections/polls don’t make any difference to those socialists that feel something isn’t right.
How about C”limate Uncertainty” ?
I meant “Climate Uncertainty” !
“Deep Ocean Warming”. It’s all they have left.
Carbonated weather
Deep Ocean Heating! DOH!
apocalypse later
Tree Ring Circus.
deep heat
Local green-leftist politicos are shouting, “we are changing the chemistry of the atmosphere!” Sounds like a re-branding to “global chemistry disruption” is waiting in the wings…. 😉
From day 1, IP”CC” stood for “climate change”, the French version being GI”EC” (climate evolution), would that satisfy you?
I really liked Weather, but now with taxes. It is so true!
Scary Hike In Temp happens.
anthropogenic whatchamacallit
ACDC: Antropogenic Climate drowned crying
Or just ‘Climate’
Today’s news: “2013 again had 365 days of climate. Government promised to reduce climate to a minimum within the next years”
HANDS DOWN 🙂
Latitude says:
August 15, 2013 at 9:55 am
Irritable Climate Syndrome………
Climate cataclysm
Reblogged this on Climate Ponderings.
Old Frothen-climate. The pale, stale hail w/the fake bottom.
Got another one:
THC: The hot climate (don’t inhale it)
Global Nothing. That could be “bad” too.
“MUSH” – Mann’s Undoing of Scientific History
“IPCC” – Irrational Panic Concerning Climate
“SNAFU” – Scandals Never Affect Funding
“CRAP” – Climate Reports to Alarm People
“VOMIT” – Variability Often Interpreted as Trend
“CLAP” – Climate Least Anthropological Problem
Sloppy proofreading!
“SNAFU” – Scandals Never Affect Funding Uptake
“VOMIT” – Variability Often Mis-Interpreted as Trend
Peak Stupid
Catastrophic ‘disappointing UK weather over recent years’ calamity.
Global Climate Wilding or Global Carbon Wilding.
Climatile Dysfunction
Ask your scientist if your healthy enough for weather.
If your weather lasts for more than 4 hours seek help immediately.
Climate Degeneration
Climate Ejaculated- interruptus
As those names go clearly from specific to general, I believe the next name will be even more general and may not even concentrate on climate or air at all. Something like “human impact” sounds buzzy enough to me. Battle the human impact, reduce human impact … that may catch up.
Summer
Climatile Dysfunction
Pre Climatal Syndrome
This is tooo much fun!
Crowd sourcing at its best.
Weather, Temperature Fluctuations?
Consumption And Guilt Wheeze
Can’t stop now….
Climate Doodle
A Place Called Hot
Climate Carnage
Climate or Else!…..Gimmie yo wallet now
Climate Moralists
Climate End of Days
Climate Dead enders
Climate Debtors
Climate Got Your Tongue
Hot Money
TThenew threat humans have to cope with: AGW (Asocial government warmists)
I tried to avoid the other w-word (w…ers) 😉
Climate Rhetoric Advances Prevarication.
….and last but not least
The Climate Martian Chronicles (it’s all about deception plays and mind games anyway)
….well a few more
12 Angry Pseudo Scientists
12 Angry Senators (for show)
In the Heat of the (UHI) Night
Sen. Boxer does DC
Bush’s Ambient Legacy
OK. A real prediction of a coming buzz phrase, “Weather Intensified”.
Climate Imperialism or Carbon Oppression … or, vice versa.
The Obama Warm Period.
@faboutlaws
I give up. You win.
The very thought of more climate hype does make me irritable
I suggest
Another Sure Science Hold On Lucre Effect
because the full title says what the scare is really about and the acronym provides the same as the scare does.
Richard
The “carbon pollution” is lifted from the Australian government’s failed attempt (just before Copenhagen) to introduce an emissions trading scheme, which was to be known as the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_Pollution_Reduction_Scheme
The DWOC = The Destruction Of World Climate AKA The Decline Of Western Civilization
Climate or Constitution?
Take your pick.
How about Uppity Climate?
¡El Globo Loco!
Climate Stasis and its followers, the Utopianists
Combobulatory air wobbles.
Climate Says…………..you lose
Climysteria
Climate Correctness.
‘The Evil Air Affect’
coinciding with action in the form of-
‘The Evil Air Act’
I Can’t Believe It’s Not Weather™
Climate Crematoria
Models’ Meltdown.
(I was going going to add something that had to do with the candy “M&Ms” slogan but couldn’t come up with anything that didn’t have a double meaning.)
Perhaps one could show a picture of the Obama’s pet dog being personally air freighted, so to speak, to Martha’s Vineyard to join them in vacation.
Climate credits, they’re not just for people anymore.
Venus Envy.
Climate Diversification
I voted “Irritable Climate Syndrome” before looking at any comments. I see I’m in good company. It really made me laugh. Well, isn’t that better than crying at the stupidity of the Warmist stance?
Climate Restraint And Perfection.
aka CRAP
How bout a picture of Al Gore’s Mendocito mansion with the caption:
Climate credits; it’s everywhere you wanna be.
Following the great success of the “The War on Drugs”, “The War on Terrorism”, “The War on Poverty” etc. I’m guessing our esteemed leaders will go with “The War on Climate” or “The War on Carbon”..
Frankenclimate – it follows the precedent already set by ‘frankenstorm’.
Carbon-fueled Weather.
Carbon fruits and nuts
Carbon Audits (report your carbon on line 43 and apply the carbon tax rate from the joint emitter table on page 82 from bulletin 3852)
Climate Exodus
Climate Bill of Rights
Rachelle says:
August 15, 2013 at 1:55 pm
You are onto something. Every 3 months they can change it again, Summer followed by Fall then Winter then Spring. Always changing. Like the “Climate”
The N & S Poles are the Canary’s the climate scientist say. Coldest Arctic Summer on Record and Second Place Record pace Sea Ice around Antarctica.
Huston we have a problem is what the AGW warmist are saying!
Look
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/meant80n.uk.php
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/antarctic.sea.ice.interactive.html
New Replacement for Climate Change
“Catastrophic Failure of Climate Change Models”
It Came from Out of the Tailpipe!
Carbon It!
In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “If you don’t work you die.”
— Kipling
Calling CO2 a pollutant is technologically incompetent.
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Or
Climate Bill of Frights
I had a thought last night about the climate models. (Was a nice red wine, btw 🙂
If you give a chimpanzee enough darts, he might eventually hit a wall… but….
…not necessarily the one that the dart board is on.
Attack of The Giant Climate-Changed Crabs!!!!!
Enemy of the People’s Weather.
The proper scientific term will be: Climatus Interruptus!
Anthropogenic Carbon Imbalance
brian says:
August 15, 2013 at 11:06 am
… “If the last two natural warm periods were named the “Roman Warm Period” and “Medieval Warm Period”, what will geologist and historians of the future name the current period of warmth? How does “American Warm Period” or “Technological Warm Period” sound, or perhaps in light of the actions of the main stream media and environmentalist the “Hysterical Warm Period”
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The “Hysterical Warm Period” is SOOoooo appropriate.
Climate soylent-ification.
(…Charlton Heston, 1973…. B movie….)
To honor the current “pause” I’ve been using …. climate flatlining. Unless some warming paddles are found the climate is dead 😉
Catastrophic Weather
Climate IS PEOPLE!!
(Charlton’s grandson)
Post climate stress syndrome.
Jimbo says:
August 15, 2013 at 11:36 am
Not only do we need a new name for global warming but a new prayer….
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E.M. Smith beat you to it. He now has the OFFICIAL CHURCH Of The SACRED CARBON although an agnostic I am thinking of becoming a member.
http://churchofsacredcarbon.wordpress.com/
I have seen “climate disruption” hjere and there on the horizon for a few months. So, now, it has made the big-time.
Mike Doner says:
August 15, 2013 at 11:42 am
“Super-Climate-Fragilistic-Expect-The-Most-Atrocious”
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I am sorry the rest of you, but that wins the bust a gut laughing award.
Anthony,
You don’t have what will be the next term on your poll. It is “climate threat”.
This has several advantages:
1. It assumes everyone knows what the climate threat is; if you don’t, then you are a rube (or denier).
2. It doesn’t require anything actually happening; it refers to impending doom.
3. It is very threatening!
4. It doesn’t require precision. What IS the threat, precisely?
Idiopathic Weather Normality.
London247 says: @ August 15, 2013 at 12:33 pm
…Maybe not the best suggestion but I rather like the potential headline
” IPCC on acid.” 🙂
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[Gail sings]: “I can see Leary now; my brain is gone.”
In honor of the wilderness area in Idaho: Climate of No Return!
Long ago, when CO2 was much higher than today, it set in motion an irreversible trend (I can’t reverse it, can you?) which led to… exactly the climate we have today.
Super-Critical Deep Ocean Overheating…Scram ! Or it’s gonna BLOW !
This is smart on their part because nature cannot refute this claim.
Can somebody sneak in or corrupt an insider enough to get a White House kitchen or a morning Presidential bedroom reading for CO2 levels?
As levels of 1200 ppm of CO2 are quite common in households I would suggest that the Presidential science advisers might be a bit hard pressed to absolve the Presidential retinue from accepting some blame for increasing global CO2 levels.
.Not of course forgetting the odd Presidential methane release as well.
Climatosis
Global Warming if it starts warming again… carbon induced global cooling if it goes the other way.
Anglian-er Jones and the Climate of Doom
beng says:
August 15, 2013 at 1:39 pm
Old Frothen-climate. The pale, stale hail w/the fake bottom.
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For those not in the U.S.A. link (it even features “…. a 14-car train for a suburban whistle-stop campaign by his fictional political candidate Carmen Monoxide.”
My favorites so far…
OldWeirdHarold on August 15, 2013 at 1:16 pm
Tree Ring Circus.
And
Gunga Din on August 15, 2013 at 2:44 pm
Venus Envy.
Hats off to you both!
I’m shooting for second place after Mike Donner.
Weather? We don’t need no stinking weather!
Cycles? We don’t need no stinking cycles!
Tenure and funding……well we do need that
“Where the f**k did that ice age come from?”
[Rules. Never again. Mod]
Systemic Temperature Disruption.
🙂
Climate Hooliganism
Climate Whodunit
Climate for the Children
Climate takes a village
Climate Cliches
Climate sound bites
Climate talking points
Climate catapult
Climate non sequitur
Shovel-ready Climate
Resourceguy says: @ August 15, 2013 at 4:15 pm
…. Shovel-ready Climate
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Oh god that one is good too. Especially if the Northern Hemisphere Snow Cover continues it’s trend
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/service/global/snowcover-nhland/201212.gif
Extreme (bed) wetter.
But Gillard called it carbon pollution several years ago.
Obamageddon
Climate Zimmerman.
There is already a name for it, it is called ‘Climate’ and for some events ‘The Weather’.
Anthropotherm
Personally I voted for, “Weather, but now with taxes”, but “Shut Up and Let Us Control You” is equally accurate.
“97% climate funding consensus” or “The climate funding is settled”.
The following additional subtypes of Factitious Disorder are proposed:
* Climate Münchausen Syndrome – The patient constructs models that assume unrealistically high sensitivity to greenhouse forcings, panics when model runs show catastrophic warming, and demands costly global treatments that are not actually indicated.
* Carbon Sensitivity Disorder – The patient assumes that every adverse ecological, meteorological, social, or economic event is linked to rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. When confronted with the fact that some of these adverse events have decreased with rising CO2, becomes combative.
* Thermageddon by Climate Proxy Syndrome – The patient applies principle component analysis to select from noisy proxies those that conform to a “hockey stick” graph, even if that means inverting the sign of the proxy, in an effort to convince the powerful that current warming is “unprecedented” and expected to be “catastrophic.” Sometimes part of an elaborate hero fantasy about saving the planet, rooted in deep insecurity about the patient’s academic and intellectual mediocrity.
* Goreism – A combination of two or more of the above disorders.
I’m not very good at this game, but names that maximise fear and guilt and are snappy enough for easy replication, would I guess be the most serious contenders…
Human[-caused] Environmental ATtrition (HEAT)
First-world Environmental Attrition Realisation (FEAR)
Not really snappy enough ):
CarBanification
The Carbon Sickle (aka Car Ban, Cycle)
Catastrophic Climate Collapse Pending (CCCP/USSR)
I see many interesting and amusing suggestions …
Burt the next term will be CLIMATE THREAT because of the four reasons I have previously listed, The threat is too big to be poo-poo’d and ignored. We must deal with the threat to climate or it will kill the planet.
Catastrophic Climate Stasis.
Anything with sharks in it gets attention these days. So how about Sharkbait Climate.
Barry and Me
Jarryd Beck says:
August 15, 2013 at 4:32 pm
But Gillard called it carbon pollution several years ago.
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That was my immediate thought too. It’s been the standard phrase used by all Australian ruling party (ALP and Greens) politicians for the last three years – ever since Gillard’s about turn on the Carbon Tax.
Climate Armageddon
Let’s consider a redux with a correction for the way temperatures are trending:
“Fictitious Global Warming”
A new college…
No More Money 4 U
CAgw …….catastrophy…Apperently gore’s wasted
97-percentile Dysfunction
Didn’t see the “Weather, but now with taxes” or I would’ve voted for that one.
I think the next term will actually be Anthropomorphic Global Cooling
Global Climate Cycle.
Klimate for Kool-Aid DrinKers.
Obamaclimatecare is far too parochial. Most of us in the real world have no idea what it is referencing. You need something that can be translated and will be comprehensible to everyone in the world.
I suggest “Coming-to-you-soon-no-we-really-mean-it-Totally-Destructive-sort-of-Civilization-Ending-or-thereabouts-Extremeish-Climate-related-Inconvenience.”
Green Fantasy Movement
Goes along perfectly with the idea that humans have also been referred to as carbon-based life-forms, doesn’t it?
If they drop “carbon” and just say “pollution” (without reference to CO2 and WITHOUT reference to climate) then maybe things will be different…
Wicked Hahd Core CO2
Akk! What am I thinking! Of course:
THE SKY IS FALLING!
@Bruce August 15, 2013 at 4:13 pm:
“Where the f**k did that ice age come from?”
Priceless
[Yeah, yeah. You only repeated it. Not again. Mod]
KFC – Kentucky Fried Climate – with 7 secret herbs and spices to be added liberally to spice the climate up in case it’s too bland on its own.