Gee, If Only We Could Rename Global Warming, People Would Care. Snicker
Showing the cluelessness of the True Believers, the NY Times Politics pages (say, how many trees that could suck up CO2 are killed every year to publish the Grey Lady?) goes stupid: Seeking to Save the Planet, With a Thesaurus
The problem with global warming, some environmentalists believe, is “global warming.”
The term turns people off, fostering images of shaggy-haired liberals, economic sacrifice and complex scientific disputes, according to extensive polling and focus group sessions conducted byecoAmerica, a nonprofit environmental marketing and messaging firm in Washington.
Instead of grim warnings about global warming, the firm advises, talk about “our deteriorating atmosphere.” Drop discussions of carbon dioxide and bring up “moving away from the dirty fuels of the past.” Don’t confuse people with cap and trade; use terms like “cap and cash back” or “pollution reduction refund.”
EcoAmerica has been conducting research for the last several years to find new ways to frame environmental issues and so build public support for climate change legislation and other initiatives. A summary of the group’s latest findings and recommendations was accidentally sent by e-mail to a number of news organizations by someone who sat in this week on a briefing intended for government officials and environmental leaders.
If you have to reframe your talking points, it might not be the talking points, but the issue itself. Climate change didn’t work, because too many people understood that it was code word for “oh, sh*t, what do we call it when it is freakin’ cold outside, people can’t get to work or school because of snow and ice, and people are dying?” Granted, more people on average die because of heat then cold and winter weather on average every year (by about 170 to 59,) but, it can’t be helped that some people are too stupid to know to come inside and drink water during the summer. More people die each year falling out of bed (450.)
Playing the name game will not change American views that put AGW dead last among issues that are important. It won’t change American opinions that say “no” to raising energy prices – followed by a raise in price on everything – for an issue that even the Believers do not practice what they preach. And it won’t change a climate that seems to bestagnant, if not cooling.
And, seriously, people might take you Climahysterics more seriously if you did actually practice what you preach, particularly your leaders, who lead extravigant lifestyles, jet all around the world, and make lots of money pushing AGW, all the while telling everyone else to sacrifice.
The terms “global warming” and “the environment” used to be fine and are fine, by themselves. What made the terms become radioactive was the ideas behind them. The words “global warming” call to mind economic sacrifice because that’s what activists have been demanding. If they switch to new words, they may buy themselves a few years by the temporary confusion caused in people’s minds, but eventually – if the activists don’t stop demanding economic sacrifice – people will realize that the new words mean the same thing as the old words, the new words will become radioactive, and activists will have to find even newer words. Changing the words is a short-term fix. The long-term fix is changing the ideas behind the words.
And the word Green used to imply environmentally friendly policies, products, and activities, but, now, the Climahysterics have turned it into a joke, too.
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Posted by William Teach on May 2, 2009 4:37 pm
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Almost sounds like what Republicans are doing these days with all the rebranding talk.
Hmmmm, the gubmint calls it global warming, we southerners call it….spring.
You’re right, JGregg. I was thinking the same thing while writing it. The GOP needs to stop trying to be Democrat Lite, and go back to basics, go back to what works.
We’re having some nice spring down here, Boss!
How about we rename it “Every 18,000 years” ?
Wichita: 59 degrees with cloudy skies, some of those clouds are very dark and ENE at 12 gusting 21. Global warming? Yeah. Right.
“We Southerners” find that it’s getting hotter every year. My delta is disappearing before my very eyes — literally.
Why are both polar ice packs melting? I’ll bet it’s because the planet’s average mean temperature has increased by almost 2 degrees since the end of WW2. To deny that this is occurring is to deny reality.
Patrick:
There was more Arctic ice this year than last year and more last year than the year before. Globally there is more sea ice than the average for 1979-2000. Using either of the satellite data series shows the “anomaly” (if one can really define such a number) is only about 0.3C for the last century. Really now, who is denying reality?
Patrick Johns on May 2nd, 2009 9:25 pm
“We Southerners” find that it’s getting hotter every year. My delta is disappearing before my very eyes — literally.
Why are both polar ice packs melting? I’ll bet it’s because the planet’s average mean temperature has increased by almost 2 degrees since the end of WW2. To deny that this is occurring is to deny reality.
Bwahaha!!
Try keeping current on the state of the polar ice, mr. warmer. You obviously don’t have a clue.
Cryospheretoday
And the rate of warming is nrmal for the palnet. There is no unprecedented warming rate.
Patrick Johns, see, there is a little problem with looking at short periods of data. Since the end of the Little Ice Age, the average temps have reportedly gone up by around .8 C. That is what happens when the climate shifts, just like it did prior to the LIA, during the Global Climate Optimum, when they were growing wine in Britain, and the Vikings became farmers in Iceland. Then the LIA came along, and wiped them out. Climate changes, and the latest trend shows a cooling period.
Call it whatever you want, man made global warming is still a hoax. Carbon offsets are still a scam. Do not pay for carbon offsets, get them for free:
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You will be glad you did.