WUWT recently covered the lexicon shift at the White House: Lexicon Shift Alert: global warming gets another name change.
This seems generally harmless, but wait until you see the source of one of the names on that list: “Climate Disruption”.
We find out who thinks up new memes and names, it’s the University of Oregon. No, really, they sponsor this strange document that reads like a B movie script. And, they have reasons for thinking up such names.
They even have a “trick” for talking to the “UnGreen” people. Apparently, even though I have solar power on my home, own an electric car, and have other green tendencies, because I tend to look at natural variation explanations as a portion of the global warming puzzle, and because I do it (solar power) mostly for avoiding high energy prices, I’m apparently one of the “UnGreen”.
Here is the report:
![CCBC%20Guide[1]](http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/ccbc20guide1.jpg?quality=83)
(h/t to reader Steve in Oregon)
Like with “Mike’s Nature Trick”, they have a language “trick” on page 37:
Translation: make people tense and fearful by tapping into their base fears.
Like most liberal enterprises, they have a strong need to label and bin everyone so they can be managed. Here’s their table of labels for people on the same page. I found last one “UnGreens” to be laughable, almost like its a joke to them, like calling people the “undead” aka zombies.
Here is how they say you should talk to “UnGreens”:
So after all the labeling, binning, and handwringing over people that don’t think as they do, they come up with the lexicon to combat the problem. From page 11:
All of this is done with government grants, your tax dollars at work.
In our recent poll, “Irritable Climate Syndrome” took the top spot.
Given the “UnGreen” labeling and the feeling of this being nothing more than a bad horror movie script, I propose this for the next cover page of their work:
In case you don’t recognize the image, see this.
You know, it’s actually a pretty good ploy and both sides can play this game.
For instance, you could say that I am so UnGreen that:
I’d like to use food to feed people rather than power my car with distilled spirits.
I don’t like the large dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico that results from corn fertilization to make those distilled spirits.
I don’t like that the finite aquifer resources in the Midwest are being pumped at record rates to water the corn on marginal land to fill my tank with distilled spirits.
I don’ like that Brazil is cutting it’s rainforests and savanna to grow sugar cane so I can fill my tank with distilled spirits.
I don’t like that a large portion of the woodland marshes in the Carolinas are going to be harvested to make wood pellets to burn in power plants in the UK in the name of renewable energy.
I don’t like that Indonesian rainforests are being cut down to make room for palm oil plantation to satisfy European biodiesel requirements
I don’t like that orangutans are loosing their Indonesian rain forest habitat to palm oil plantations.
I don’t like that raptors are being killed so I can run my air conditioning guilt free on hot afternoons.
I don’t like that raising the price of energy with green mandates is going to make the poor in rural areas much poorer as they have to devote more of their income to energy purchases.
I don’t like that hourly laborers who make things in the US will be less competitive on the global market because power prices drive up costs.
I don’t like that it takes 3 years for a solar panel to recover the energy that went into its manufacture.
I don’t like that this solar panel is more likely to end up in a place with high subsidies as opposed to high sunlight because that’s the way these things really make money.
I don’t like that human rights are being trampled in this country and in third world countries because some Wall Street banker is making money on carbon credits.
I don’t like that the Chinese are making refrigerant bi-products that have consumed 46% of the carbon offsets to destroy.
I don’t like it that some people in academia think democracy must go because only a totalitarian government could takes the steps to control a perceived climate problems with solutions that will likely be ineffective.
I could go on and on but I hope you get my drift. There is a tremendous amount of environmental harm being done in the name of climate change mitigation and more onerous things may soon follow. It’s time to point out that their “solutions” have consequences on the things they care about as well.
That graphic with the percentages of Americans in each category is crap. By far the largest percentage of Americans are “boneheads” who believe almost every meme mouthed by green politicians but are too stupid to realize that it means they will ultimately freeze in the dark.
(Tip: when talking with boneheads, point them to the video of Obama pledging that electricity rates will necessarily skyrocket)
Some boneheads will buy a Prius and therefore be mistaken for the green segment in the graphic. But the couple will be typically be anything but green (the spouse drives a truck to work). Some will change out a lightbulb or two, but still take a hot shower until the hot water runs out.
A number of boneheads will even go as far to copy and paste Reality Drop or other astroturf talking points into forums identified as denialist (e.g. Jason Samenow at the Washington Post last week who is far from a denialist who had the gall to put up a story calling into question the theory of wacky weather caused by missing Arctic ice). That subtype of boneheads are mistakenly presumed to care about the environment. But they lack any knowledge of what they are cutting and pasting and along with any understanding of how green policy will affect them. They may care about polar bears as an abstraction, but still enjoy a steak.
Unfortunately many boneheads vote and they vote for politicians who promise the least pain and most real and abstract benefits. Thus they will vote to tax evil carbon-polluting corporations not realizing that it is their local pizza parlor.
This “un”-thing seems a bit like the “denier” label; intended to give unpleasant associations. In this case I suppose it would be the “Ungreen”-“Undead” connection, hey maybe we’ll soon be the proud owners of titles like “Environmental Zombie”, or “Un-recycled Fossil”. But it does not really roll off the tongue, sounds a bit heavy. Why not something simple like “Carbonist”, “Carbonator” or “Carbominable”?
Could be turned around, though. How about an “Un-UN” sticker?
I find the “ungreens” to be the true “greens”. We smart people understand that Co2 greens the planet. We also work to preserve the land and the animals (we eat) so that they will be around in the future. We also don’t try to fix what isn’t broken. We also understand that the future is in new technology. Not old tech (wind power) with a new coat of paint.
These fake “greens” believe in removing all technology in their attempt at taking us back to an agrarian existence that will result in their optimum goal of devolving the world of all human existence, because the earth is viewed as a living organism that has been made sick by a virus known as man.
We also know these people are all hypocrites. They all use this modern stuff they want everybody to give up. I myself will think about giving up the modern stuff after these people have lived a few years without it first. We’ll see how long they can survive without it.
“13% rank global warming as one of the most important issues”…”3% of adults” …..”83% very likely to vote”
Sounds like most of the 13% aren’t old enough to vote yet, but as good citizens plan on doing so in the future. Pushing the agenda on the mouldable youth is probable their biggest tactic. Maybe when the nonadult part of the 13% start paying their way they will change their mind on why they do what they do.
Sean says:
August 24, 2013 at 11:45 am
Sean, an excellent list. However, the slant should be the other way as it is in the ‘Oregon Othering’ – as examples from your statements:
What are ‘Greens’:
* Greens like to power their cars with distilled spirits from food rather than use that food to feed starving people .
* Greens do not care about the large dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico that results from corn fertilization to make the distilled spirits they like to put in their cars and insist everyone else uses too.
* Greens do not care that the finite aquifer resources in the Midwest are being pumped at record rates to water the corn on marginal land to fill their car fuel tanks with distilled spirits.
* Greens are glad that Brazil is cutting it’s rainforests and savanna to grow sugar cane so they can fill their cars’ tanks with distilled spirits.
Etc.
Perhaps if they were ‘othered’ in this way they might think for once about what they were doing.
Joseph Goebbels would be proud! when you have to use propaganda type tactics instead of facts you should realise you have lost the argument.
1 in 5 Americans are Traditionalists where:
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Hmm.
So this is only a middling kind of person. They are not Christians then. Why don’t they make their objection to traditional religion more prominent?
Also, do you really think they would provide humans as food for rare species, like tigers?
If you do then do you think they are monsters.
If you don’t then do you think they are hypocrites.
Or what?
In the end it probably will come down to Ungreen vs. Unreal. I agree, though, we Ungreens will need to connect.
On a more serious note, this kind of overarching fatuousness does raise a lot of interesting questions. Like, how do you parameterize a human brain so that it produces all this crap?
“Daddy, can I to talk with you about saving the planet from carbon.”
“I think you mean co2, Pumpkin.”
“Whatever. We heard about it in school today.”
“From that idiot science teacher of yours, Mr Greenweenie?”
“It is heating up the planet and making it too warm and too cold and lots of stuff. And we watched a movie from Al Gore.”
“I knew we should have put you in a private school.”
“I get extra credit for talking to my ungreen parents about the climate, and you know how bad my grades are in math and science. ”
“Don’t remind me. ”
“So could I talk with you and mom about this? I’m serious: The oceans are boiling all over and everything. And the hot spot. ”
“The what?”
“Hot spot. It like moves around and stuff. ”
“Ok, later. Tell your sister dinner is ready…. Oh, and Pumpkin…”
“Yeah?”
“Maybe you could start by cleaning your room. That is a part of the planet too, you know. “
Not much new here. Self-important pompous fools have always attempted to attract media attention. (Usually fairly successfully).
Obama, why carbon pollution?
Ban coal is no real solution.
CO2, it is clean,
Makes our earth much more green.
Now that is the green revolution.
With a twist at what levels it could be considered “carbon pollution at
http://lenbilen.com/2013/08/15/co2-is-it-carbon-pollution-a-limerick/
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha! says:
LOL climate failure! Wonder what a failed climate looks like…
Obvious. One that doesn’t change. That would really screw-up most eco-systems.
This crap is ubiquitous in liberal circles. Apparently they’ve come to the conclusion that no one actually changes opinions using logical arguments. They now believe that they have to find emotional connections to the people they’re supposed to try to convince and use those links to change minds. Kind of like Hare Krishnas.
It’s just a sign of the decline of Western Civilization. When you lack a critical mass of people capable of the self-discipline inherent in actual logic, the problem is stated as logic doesn’t work.
The greens can’t do science. The greens can’t do math. Now the greens can’t do logic. They’re going with green makes you feel good. Unfortunately no one has told them that liberals are usually more depressed than conservatives, and no one is more depressing to talk to than greens.
Credited are two “Directors” and one “Project Coordinator”. How many deputy directors, assistant deputy directors, senior managers, operation managers, office managers, department liaisons, IT project coordinators, systems analysts, etc, are also employed by the CLI? And who pays for them?
Is Meredith the one in the red shirt?
It would be interesting to see just how they arrived at their numbers. Was it from polls? What percentage of people didn’t answer the things? What group were they pigeon holed into?
Start with the massive personal data collection that is being performed by both government agencies and private corporations. Pair with the ability to target individualized messaging on all addressable media (including media such as TV, which once were broadcast, and still appear to be even though now they are not), at infinitessimal cost.
The means and methods of absolutely pervasive yet effectively invisible social manipulation are here. They are being used, and your life is being changed in ways of which you are not even aware, whether you personally are being manipulated or not.
And you very likely are.
Gunga Din says:
August 24, 2013 at 12:18 pm
It would be interesting to see just how they arrived at their numbers. Was it from polls? What percentage of people didn’t answer the things? What group were they pigeon holed into?
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I’d also want to know how they arrived at categories that add up to 101%.
I wonder what group the people in these belong in?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlXAbi7RSBU
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That’s easy. “It’s worse than we thought!”
Gunga Din;
That’s easy. “It’s worse than we thought!”
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I think we need to start a list of possibilities:
o It’s worse than we thought
o positive feedbacks
o polarized view amplification
o math skill corruption
o math skill disruption
o precautionary principle math
o post normal math
o spinal tap amplified math
o facts, we don’t need no stinkin’ facts
o we’re making it up as we go along
How exactly does a climate fail? It may change and drastically, but there will still be a climate. I suppose if the earth were to suddenly disintegrate it would be hard for there to be a climate. Even Pluto and Mercury have climates.
What might be most amusing is that the last line is identical to that of every other junk science paper we see. A plea for more money to study the matter further.