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
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After witnessing the behaviour of my wife during ” pre menstrual tension” especially during a FULL MOON, i’d vote for ” PRE CLIMATE TENSION”. After 16 or more years of temperature standstill,its definitely “PRE climate tension” maybe piers corbyn could do the research !
My entry is … Climatastrophe
My favorites seen here so far are definitely …
CDS … Carbon Derangement Syndrome
Climate ThermoZombiGeddon
(Both Hot and Lots of Zombies + an Apocalypse)
Mean Temperatures
Climatoxidation
Climataxidermy – we’re stuffed!
Hypochondriaclimatosis
Pretty Mean Temperatures, or PMT – wait, that rings a bell…
And don’t forget about taxing all that scary, evil Dihydrogenmonoxide on this planet out of existence soon, too, or – WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE!
/sarc
The next scare: Climate Entropy.
Abstract (from 2017)
For millennia Mother Earth has continually gone through changes in its climate, these changes being observable at all time scales from decadal to millennial. These changes are crucial to the biosphere, as they spur on evolutionary developments and prevent any one species monopolising their biowotsit for too long by triggering both extinctions and births of new species.
However, data from the last 20 years show an alarming picture of a stagnant, unchanging world. Scientists are predicting that if this stagnation continues for another 20 years the human population could be doomed, one way or another, possibly by the rise of a mutant virus which is predicted by models to evolve and thrive in an unchanging world. (In our model, bad things can still evolve, good things cannot.) We must act immediately to trigger a climatic change, and prevent Climate Entropy reaching tipping point.
Cook’n with Gas: The SS Way
Oh so so incorrect. But CO2 is a gas and he did have those pictures on his web site!
gotta be snipped
Sinistral Terraformity
“transforming the planet Earth so it can support life of the left persuasion”
sinister and terrifying?
Pladanpleadetem
“PLAnts are DANgerous! PLEAse Do not fEed ThEM!”
a new word for getting rid of the right stuff that reduces CO2!
Triffidological Collapse
“imminent extinction of human eating plants whose diet is mainly skeptics”
sounds AGW scientific in a way?
SARS Dissimulation
“… Skeptics Are Right! So… we will,..we will,… fool ya!”
apologies to Queen “we will rock you”
Attention! All Climate Superheroes, Please Save us from Disaster
“Warmists believe in LaLaland (therefore CAGW is a hoax): A motivational rejection of Intelligience”
have i just pre-empted the title of loo’s next paper roll?
Charity begins at Climate Models
“if you don’t give us the money, we will get a fat little man on a donkey to grant us that which you have in your back pocket! We’ve hidden the MWP (medieval wealth protector) from you.”
can i claim part of my power bill as a charitable tax deduction?
How about ‘Carbon Holocaust’ – or CARBOCAUST! (capitals and exclamation mark mandatory). Incidentally I hear there is a new movie out that sounds like it might be a sequel to An Inconvenient Truth, called Sharknado! – I heard that there is freak weather and gore in it, could it be Al?
Extreme Weather is being bandied about already. I suggest this will be the next big thing. After that has worn out it’s welcome the big talking point will be why the lights are going out all over the UK.
If the meme were republican, I would advise “evil climate”. However, it is the “liberals” we are trying to help so “terminal climate” is my contribution.
KISS principle.
Climate Cycling.
GorePorn
…just ‘Weather with Taxes’ would do for me.
Climatic Blue Balls….
What august body should be created to handle this ever-evolving sin? Why, the Committee for the Control of Carbon Pollution (CCCP), of course. Their first act will be to designate one carbon life form in particular as a Volatile Organic Compound. These will then be subject to selective control by the Institute for the Removal of Sin (IRS).
For alarmists something simple is required, so I think ‘Climate’ and ‘The Weather’ should be on the list.
When the BBC or the Guardian are talking about it being hot or stormy they can then correctly reference “due to the weather” or “due to the local climate” instead of blaming any weather event on “climate change” or similar.
“climate whatever”
” Global Climate Reform” all failed government policies must be reformed……..
Hocus Pocus Weather Society
Abra-kadabra ala ka-ZAM! Magical Changing Name Society
The Greedy Grinch’s Greenhouse Gasses!
The new Lexicon is catching on real quick. Here’s a new paper:
Near multi-decadal Mann-o-Pause in the Irritable Climate System: Deep Ocean Feverish from Venus Envy. Authors: Schmidth Happens, Trained Birth Travesty and James HandsOn de Data.