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Climate change alarmists are pushing for a change in vocabulary to scare people into taking global warming more seriously, starting with terms like “global meltdown” and “climate collapse.”
Writing for AdAge this week, Aaron Hall argues that in order to get people to “take action” against climate change, “rebranding” is crucial, since people have gotten too used to the idea that climate is changing and need to be shocked into the notion that the world as we know it is ending.
Aaron steps up the rhetoric, up to eleven!
What he and his marketing team came up with was a series of much more frightening labels to stick on climate change in the hope of jolting people into meaningful engagement.
The terms “Global Meltdown” or “Global Melting,” for instance, deliver a more negative image than mere “Global Warming,” he contends. “The names signal that ice caps are melting, but also create a more visceral image in the mind — that real feeling of ‘melting’ when it’s too hot outside. A meltdown is a disastrous event that draws from the ultimate terror of a nuclear meltdown, an apt metaphor for global destruction.”
“Climate Collapse” and “Climate Chaos,” on the other hand, “instill a clear message or even a direct call to action,” Hall notes, adding that “there’s nothing neutral about collapse or chaos.”
To up the rhetoric even more, Hall proposes the weaponized term “Scorched Earth.”
Of course Mr Hall feels no shame.
Mr. Hall’s contention that it does not matter if what is said is true as long as it elicits the necessary response is reminiscent of similar assertions by leaders of the Extinction Rebellion (XR) movement.
Thomas Williams of Breitbart warns of the the opposite occurring.
While it is clearly true that “alarmist language works” in some cases, it is also true that people tend to resent being lied to and manipulated.
Like Aesop’s fable of the Boy Who Cried Wolf, climate alarmists may wake up one fine day to find that nobody believes them anymore.
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Ex-climate
Big Climate Boom Boom
followed by the ultimate
Climate Orgasm
WARMAGEDDON!
(or The Emperor’s New Climate)
[Last few verses contain New Zealand political references.]
“TWO-FOUR-SIX-EIGHT —
PANIC AND EXAGGERATE!”
“TWO-FOUR-SIX-EIGHT —
PANIC AND EXAGGERATE!”
Planets cool and planets warm,
Climate changes are the norm;
See who gains from claims that geddin’
Warmer equals Warmageddon.
“SEE WHO GAINS FROM CLAIMS THAT GEDDIN’
WARMER EQUALS WARMAGEDDON!”
Who’s enriched to “hide declines”?
Who’s dismissed if he declines
To pretend as state defender
Of this UN tax agenda?
Al Gore’s truth most inconvenient!
Asian glaciers — disobedient!
Failed predictions never cease!
Polar bears — hide the increase!
“AL GORE GAINS FROM CLAIMS THAT GEDDIN’
WARMER EQUALS WARMAGEDDON!”
“TWO-FOUR-SIX-EIGHT —
PANIC AND EXAGGERATE!”
Profs who stray from state religion
Get no funding — not a smidgen;
Take your money, all pretend
Planet Earth’s about to end!
Profs won’t risk being shunned or fired,
Yet confess once they’ve retired:
“Pressured to exaggerate —
Just a shame we had to wait.”
“…TILL THEY’D GAINED FROM CLAIMS THAT GEDDIN’
WARMER EQUALS WARMAGEDDON!”
“TWO-FOUR-SIX-EIGHT —
PANIC AND EXAGGERATE!”
Is Earth’s situation critical?
“Settled science” is political;
Real science keeps evolving
Till a planet stops revolving.
Go to Vic to watch ‘debate’,
Sceptics can’t participate;
Ten debaters, all one side,
Soon pronounce us drowned or fried.
“PROFS ALL GAIN FROM CLAIMS THAT GEDDIN’
WARMER EQUALS WARMAGEDDON!”
“TWO-FOUR-SIX-EIGHT —
PANIC AND EXAGGERATE!”
Ask ‘debaters’: “Why the bias?
Why are sceptics now ‘deniers’?”
Most unjust religious mission
Since the Spanish Inquisition.
Clerics said the Earth was flat,
Sceptics died denying that:
Where have men of CONSCIENCE gone?
Gone along with SCIENCE CON!
In that simple anagram
Lies the key to climate scam:
Lies from scientists who doubt it,
Lie for cash — can’t live without it.
Let themselves become corrupted
Lest their incomes be disrupted,
Trading their integrity
For career security.
“SCIENTISTS GAIN FROM CLAIMS THAT GEDDIN’
WARMER EQUALS WARMAGEDDON!”
“TWO-FOUR-SIX-EIGHT —
PANIC AND EXAGGERATE!”
Why do IPCC papers
Hide the fact that water vapour’s
7/10ths of greenhouse gases?
Why conceal it from the masses?
Can’t tax water — that is why
In their models, air is dry!;
Sceptics point to sun and cloud,
Stuff decrees: “That’s not allowed!”
“STUFF HAS GAINED FROM CLAIMS THAT GEDDIN’
WARMER EQUALS WARMAGEDDON!”
“TWO-FOUR-SIX-EIGHT —
PANIC AND EXAGGERATE!”
Someone tell these great left brains
Sky’s a sponge — that’s why it rains!
Cos you can’t tax H2O it
Doesn’t mean you shouldn’t show it!
Facts when seen through red-green prism
Cited as “denialism”:
Commenting with common sense is
Banned to prove their fake consensus.
“NEWSMEN GAIN FROM CLAIMS THAT GEDDIN’
WARMER EQUALS WARMAGEDDON!”
“TWO-FOUR-SIX-EIGHT —
PANIC AND EXAGGERATE!”
Greatest greenhouse gas is water,
Yet they scare your son and daughter
That a puff of CO2
Will kill them, you and Tuvalu!
Climate Scientologists’
Ship of scholars badly lists;
Greens again have missed the boat —
As predicted, atolls float.
“GREENS ALL GAIN FROM CLAIMS THAT GEDDIN’
WARMER EQUALS WARMAGEDDON!”
Leftists lie that CO2
And CH4 are killing you:
Our carbon foot is much too small
To kick-start warming of our ball.
Yes, for absorbing rays of heat
Man’s CO2 just can’t compete;
Heat’s main absorber’s H2O
And micro-methane’s got no show!…
“TWO-FOUR-SIX-EIGHT —
PANIC AND EXAGGERATE!”
…’Tis but a speck compared to water,
Just don’t tell your son or daughter:
Lefties need kids scared to death,
So tell them lies with every breath!
And for this speck they’d shut down farming?
That’s what you should find alarming!
Sacrifice your bright green pastures
For Jacinda’s red-green masters!
“LABOUR GAINS FROM CLAIMS THAT GEDDIN’
WARMER EQUALS WARMAGEDDON!”
Who will put New Zealand first?
Winston’s lot would be the worst;
Billion trees to squeeze out farmland
Till New Zealand is New Finland.
“WINSTON GAINS FROM CLAIMS THAT GEDDIN’
WARMER EQUALS WARMAGEDDON!”
Nats can’t seem to find a spine:
So that grass will soon be pine;
Go along with lower yields
Leave us pining for the fields!
“NATIONAL GAINS FROM CLAIMS THAT GEDDIN’
WARMER EQUALS WARMAGEDDON!”
Terrified to tell the truth:
Sooner terrify the youth;
Whipped to toe the party lie,
Tell young kids, “You’re gonna die!
“Earth’s got twelve more years to run!
You won’t get to twenty-one!
Tell your parents they’re to blame!”
NZ MPs’ UN game.
“MPs GAIN FROM CLAIMS THAT GEDDIN’
WARMER EQUALS WARMAGEDDON!”
“TWO-FOUR-SIX-EIGHT —
PANIC AND EXAGGERATE!”
“TWO-FOUR-SIX-EIGHT —
PANIC AND EXAGGERATE!”
Straight out of Joseph Goebbels playbook. People that are afraid are easier to manipulate and they will care even less about facts and cool and sane analysis. Anyone who has ever seen an out-of-mind mob will know what I am talking about. And will also be afraid as mob-mentality transforms reasonable individuals into raging monsters.