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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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.