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
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: @ur momisugly 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