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Oxford names ‘climate emergency’ its 2019 ‘Word of the Year’Thursday, November 21, 2019
Amid historic flooding in Venice, Italy, and catastrophic bushfires decimating Australia’s koala population, Oxford has named its 2019 Word of the Year “climate emergency.”[…]
Oxford said its selected words or phrases “reflect the ethos, mood, or preoccupations of the passing year,” and this year, heightened awareness of climate science and its implications have generated tremendous debate.
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Previous Words of the Year include “toxic,” “youthquake,” “post-truth,” and “vape,” and in 2015, “Face with Tears of Joy” emoji.
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“Climate emergency” is two words and a fake phrase… But at least they are two real words… “Youthquake” really? Furthermore, how could an actual climate emergency “reflect the ethos, mood, or preoccupations of the passing year”? Existential threats aren’t limited time engagements.
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I’ll start worrying when the morphing of AGW reaches its final state: “Climate Death.”
I guess “Mass Hysteria ” wasn’t available on their list then…
Oxford, where you get two words for the price of one!
Oxford, where you used to get a magnifying glass to get one word
One can hope “climate emergency” gets “plutoed” (WoTY 2006) before it becomes a “dumpster fire” (WoTY 2016).
I’m not so sure humans are intelligent enough as a species to survive a real existential threat.
If comedy survives there will be lots of material for future comics but I feel a bit uncomfortable being part of a generation that becomes the subject of much hilarity and ridicule.
“Climate Emergency” – it will return to haunt them.
I’m worried that we are running out of words to express this emergency and it will start to fizzle out. We must try to generate some more. Viz. er, thuddenbluddenapocopiclypse?
Try “epoxyclypse”. Once you use it, you’re stuck with it.
“Gutfeld on ‘existential’ being word of the year”
https://video.foxnews.com/v/6112141982001#sp=show-clips
“Word of the Year: “Climate Emergency”…”
“Isn’t that two words ?”
“Isn’t that two words ?”
Math isn’t the lefts strong suit.
“Oxford names ‘climate emergency’ its 2019 ‘Word of the Year”
Or maybe the phrase of the year?
I’ve got your word of the year right here:
Climate Clusterf#*?!
The climate emergency in Thailand right now is that it is 19C in a place where we need sweaters when it falls below 30C
Someone please let me know when the Climate Doomsters finally give up and put the lights out in their auditorium?
When you have to keep relabeling and/or rebranding your product because it just is NOT being bought, then you fail to recognize that don’t nobody want it and it’s going to end up on the trash heap where it belongs.
Climate Righteousness
Climate Entitlement
Climate Indoctrination
Climate Psychosis
Climate Zombie
Climaphobic
… a few more of my own proposals for words of the year for the coming years, when nothing catastrophic happens ……………………… AGAIN.
It’s such a devastating “Word of the Year” that they’re already seeking new descriptions to make our normal climate seem more dire. I wonder if any of these people realize how pathetic they sound and how ridiculous they’ve become?
Coming up next in 2020 is UN Tax.
So, is 2019 going to be declared the warmest ever? Just wondering if Oxford will make “Warmest ever!” Word of the year in 2020 if this year does get declared so.
Anybody have a guess on what the anomaly will be? My guess is .031C +/- 2.6.C
We’re all doomed…
/sarc
Cheers
Max
There are pictures that show the flood in Venice in 1966 was worse than this year.
One on the shortlist for adoption that has already been seen in print: Global Environment Change. It opens up the blame range considerably.
Who uses the Oxford dictionary these days?
Dictionary! What’s that? Everybody uses spell check, silly.
Oxford almost got the right phrase. Amended:
“Climate-Fraud Emergency”
There.
I would challenge the Oxford union to debate ” This house believes that climate science peer review standards dismally fail Poundland suppliers Quality Assurance controls.” As even a engineering grunt I would happily stand for the motion against any of the best they can offer.
That is unless they can show be lab certification for the instruments and locations being adequate for 0.1 degree accuracy measurements and that must include at least ten of the used stations having at least fifty measurements taken around them to show that one measurement is enough to produce the average value for the hundred miles or so between measuring stations to 0.1 degrees.