OK, I've often asked "global cooling...err global warming...err climate change...err what the hell is it called this week?" Well, I finally got an answer.
FOXNews.com - White House: Global Warming Out, 'Global Climate Disruption' In
From the administration that brought you "man-caused disaster" and "overseas contingency operation," another terminology change is in the pipeline.
The White House wants the public to start using the term "global climate disruption" in place of "global warming" -- fearing the latter term oversimplifies the problem and makes it sound less dangerous than it really is.
White House science adviser John Holdren urged people to start using the phrase during a speech last week in Oslo, echoing a plea he made three years earlier. Holdren said global warming is a "dangerous misnomer" for a problem far more complicated than a rise in temperature...
...Holdren's "global climate disruption" isn't the most convoluted term to grace the climate debate, however.
According to...NASA ..., early studies on the impact humans had on global climate referred to the relationship as "inadvertent climate modification."
This is a classic example of Newspeak if there ever was. Somewhere up there George Orwell is smiling.
translation: the farmer's almanac predicted a colder than normal winter which means that "Joe-Blow-Public" won't buy into "Global Warming" with 20 feet of snow on the ground while it's 30-below outside for the first time in 150 years. In the immortal words of Faulty Towers:
ReplyDeleteBasille: Manuel, that's a rat
Manuel: No, is "Siberian Hamster".
Basille: IT'S A RAT
Menuel: I told pet shop same thing, he say it's Siberian Hamster
Basille: Manuel let me tell you about the bubonic plague brought over by a boat load of "Siberian Hamsters" .....
Typical Democrats - if people don't buy the BS, repackage it and re-sell it to them.