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
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: @ur momisugly 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.