I had a predictable and laughable Twitter dialog today with the editor of the bought and paid for climate activist site known as “The Carbon Brief”. He was bent out of shape because I pointed out that while he thought the reason for the stepping down of Lord Lawson at The Global Warming Policy Foundation in the UK was due to the lack of traffic and interest in the organization, it [the lowered traffic] really is because of two reasons:
- The public is getting bored with it, possibly due to all the fear-mongering promoted by irresponsible journalists.
- There’s been a shift from the use of the term “global warming” to other terms, perhaps in a desperate bid to “keep it fresh”.
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2009-10-01%202019-01-16&q=global%20warming
Note that “climate change” is outperforming “global warming”:
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2009-10-01%202019-01-16&q=climate%20change
Perhaps the lesson to come out of this is simple; just like climate alarmists change the narrative to “stay fresh” The Global Warming Policy Foundation might change it’s name to “The Climate Change Policy Foundation” to take advantage of more search traffic.
In the “physician, heal thyself” mode of self reflection, maybe “Watts Up With Climate Change” would be a better choice too.
Interestingly, “climate crisis” has made a resurgence in 2018:
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2009-10-01%202019-01-16&q=climate%20crisis
I blame journos.
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I see Climatitis in our future.
The next logical step in this progression will be to remove the word, “climate”, altogether, instead using the phrase, the greatest existential threat of our time …, which will be shortened to the acronym, GETT
This way, any criticism can more easily be deflected, by merely shifting to another aspect of a now completely obscure, general threat.
GETT will take down humanity. GETT will be the end game.
“Greenhouse gases” will become known as “climate flatulence”.
In keeping w/current memes — Climate Shutdown.
Climate worshipers are just going in circles and hoping no one will notice. Not long ago, climate change was supposed to produce warmer winters, raise average minimum temperatures, and reduce snow fall. Now it is supposed to make winters colder in Europe and increase snowfall. So much for “settled science.” You have to wet your finger and determine what direction the wind is blowing and how cold it is before you can know what climate term to use that day. If we have a heat wave this summer, they will go back to using the term “global warming.” But when winter hits and it gets cold again, they will revert to using the term “climate change.” And if we have extreme weather anywhere in the world, it will be a “climate crisis” again.
They have the next generation convinced that extreme weather never occurred before they were born because CO2 levels were “normal” back then. So any extreme weather event today has to be the result of climate change.
The average voter has the attention span of a goldfish – keep changing the name and they’ll think it’s something new.
Great list, lol. Also from last week, climate existentialism. Could also have climate mansplaining.
YAWN! It seems global temperatures are inversely proportional to IQ amongst the comentators here.
Some have issues with science… hmmmm… no s#it Sherlock? Could it be because they have the IQ of a boiled potato? Or is because they can’t read more than 6 lines of text without feeling their brain is exploding, and need everything in cartoon format?
Or is it because they have been spoon-fed conspiracy theories that are designed to validate their ignorance over the scientific concensus of the world’s climatologists, geologists, ecologists, oceanologists, hydrologists and many more bedisdes? But, of course… scientists, what do THEY know, huh?
MWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! The deniers would be so adorable, if they weren’t DANGEROUS!
Weather-Climate conflation…. please go and cook dinner, washe the car.. anything that does not require a brain!
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