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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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.