Rider wrote on Jan 2
nd, 2014 at 7:03pm:
Innocent bystander wrote on Jan 2
nd, 2014 at 6:44pm:
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Yeah we saw the updated memo to all the warming disciples that was introduced when the drought broke and the cold weather and floods came back ...
Yes the precise moment when global warming morphed into climate change.
Sad desperate tax payer teat sucking rent seeking grant addicted fraudulent data manipulating scum fvcks one and all. Game is up you warmist fools.
Unfortunately for
Conservatives, it's they who decided "Global Warming" is out and "Climate Cahnge" is in. The first reference is more comprehensive, but the source will probably give denialists indigestion. The second is nice and safe.
‘Climate Change’ vs. ‘Global Warming’Some myths pushed by the anti-science crowd are so laughably backwards that repeating them should be grounds for expulsion from
homo ‘sapiens’ sapiens. And so it is with the doubly wrong claim that progressives are now using the term ‘climate change’ because the planet has supposedly stopped warming.
Of course, it hasn’t actually stopped warming (
see NASA reports the 12-month running mean global temperature has reached a new record in 2010 “” despite recent minimum of solar irradiance: “We conclude that global temperature continued to rise rapidly in the past decade” and “there has been no reduction in the global warming trend of 0.15-0.20°C/decade that began in the late 1970s”).
But since the deniers make up stuff about the science, why shouldn’t they make up stuff about everything else? The most recent iteration of the dumbest denier myth came from hominid Tim Phillips, president of Americans For Prosperity, the anti-science, anti-EPA, polluter-funded group that is a driving force behind the Tea Party:
Quote:We started looking now at the scientific impact and the fact that over the last ten years it appears it was cooling and not warming.
Hence the name change, you notice how it went from “global warming” to “climate change.” Whenever the left gets in trouble, they change the name! It was liberals, now the public has repudiated liberalism, and now it’s “progressivism.”
They did the same thing with “global warming” and switched over to “climate change.” Progressivism, of course, is a very old idea.
Actually it is conservatives who typically change the names of things, ...
In a confidential
2003 memo, Luntz asserted that the Administration and conservatives should
stop using the term “global warming” because it was too frightening:
Quote:It’s time for us to start talking about “climate change” instead of global warming and “conservation” instead of preservation. 1) “Climate change” is less frightening than “global warming”. As one focus group participant noted, climate change “sounds like you’re going from Pittsburgh to Fort Lauderdale.” While global warming has catastrophic connotations attached to it, climate change suggests a more controllable and less emotional challenge.
Origin of the phrase ‘climate change’? Blame it on Bush... A
letter to the editor of The Oregonian:
Quote: “Climate change” is politically correct nonsense, but Republican pollster Frank Luntz and George W. Bush are to blame, not Al Gore. Luntz sold the phrase to Bush: “Climate change” is less frightening than “global warming.” While “global warming” has catastrophic connotations attached, “climate change” suggests a more controllable challenge. Bush agreed.
Republican political appointees at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, where I was a biologist, forced scientists to always use “climate change” instead of the accurate and alarming “global warming.”
DAVE MILLER
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