It's Global Warming NOT Climate Change

[StClone]

You know why?

Because Frank Luntz came up with the term Climate Change to soft sell catastrophic man-made Global impact! Who is Frank Luntz? He's master propagandist that sold America on the Death Tax, Healthy Forest Initiative and other perverted linguistic gems.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Luntz

Not only is climate change promulgated by Sience now under the thumb of BushCo and his anti-Scientific hacks it's got some here reciting right along with the mush brained Freeptards. Use of the term will pretty much indicate Luntz's influence.

[ShortnFiery]

1. IMO whatever helps the right wing embrace reality will work for me. n/t

[Ian David]

2. No, it's The Climate Holocaust. n/t

[ClassWarrior]

3. I prefer "climate crisis"...

...because "global warming" has always sounded to me like it's warm and cuddly.

NGU.

[StClone]

4. Al Gore uses that

I'd have to agree it sounds good too...and to Global Meltdown, World's A Fire...

[Auggie]

5. "Crisis" adds some urgent meaning to the situation

[stevebreeze]

6. While I firmly believe Frank Luntz is a lowlife pond scum sucking dirt bag

He is right on this in that climate change is more true to what is happening. It is not just an average degree or two warmer that is the problem, it is the drastic changes in climate systems where in the real threat lies. As to climate crisis? that may sound a little too ext ream to be accepted by the general public.

[StClone]

10. Cause and result

When a fire occurs, or a car accident, emphasis by news is to sell the collision or flames. It's the old if it bleeds it leads mindset. Attention and emotions captured, viewers gawk at the smashed cars and leaping flames. But to auto accident and fire investigators (analogous to Scientists) the interest is in the cause of the crash or fire.

Luntz has you focusing on result and softening it to Climate Change, sounds sort of natural and less threatening. Science does too, but there is more interest in the causes as THAT is the only way to analyze on how to control the temperature rise. Man is the cause and Conservatives don't want human activity to be seen as negative. Temperature rise may be seen as a result of human activity but it is also the root cause of Climate change.

[slackmaster]

7. It's the warming phase of a recurring global climate cycle

http://www.green-innovations.asn.au/how-far-how-fast-greenhouse-case.htm

[StClone]

16. Looks good but I am looking

For several studies that shows a statistically significant de-coupling of past locale and regional temperature cycles when compared with the current temperature rise.

[JeffR]

8. I have no problem with the phrase "climate change" as long as

it's prefixed with the word "catastrophic".

[SidDithers]

9. If it's good enough for David Suzuki, it's good enough for me...

http://www.davidsuzuki.org/Climate_Change/

He uses both Climate Change and Global Warming on his site.

Sid

[StClone]

13. Luntz magic

Luntz group tested the term "Climate Change". Found it was less threatening than Global Warming and went with it. Luntz reports back to lackey "Scientists" and the term is put into studies and where it is read by other Scientists. To follow precedent and avoid confusion they use follow the use of the term. That is why Suzuki may use both terms.

[Snotcicles]

11. Climate Change is what happens inside of a Buick, with the touch of a button. nt

[Buzz Clik]

12. Semantics for the mentally challenged.

Retard: politically incorrect.

Mentally challenged: politically correct, but it still means retarded.

I don't give a shit what you call it.

[StClone]

14. Thanks

Politically correct is actually an abused term.

[RiverStone]

15. Its this:

http://www.climatecrisis.net

[Raine]

17. Global Climate Change is fine with me

beings that is the effect of Global Warming and if it makes it more acceptable to the masses and they do something about it ... :shrug:

Anyway I have actually come across people who can't understand that Global Warming is a bad thing. :silly: They will say "so what, I love in a cold place and will be happy for it to get a little warmer"! :banghead:

[StClone]

18. I know most don't care

What it is called or it's effects until a drought, famine, heat waves, ice storms hits them hard. Then it'll be "Why wasn't anything done!" Remembering Katrina, no matter how long and hard the alarm, words are not heeded and action insufficient even after catastrophe in this modern world of apathy, ineptitude and ignorance.

[Telly Savalas]

19. The Kyoto Protocol

is under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Are the people who organized this "Freeptards"?

[muriel_volestrangler]

21. Apparently Luntz also founded the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 1988

Who knew Luntz had such influence over the UN and World Meteorological Organization back when he was just 26?

[StClone]

24. I read what I posted in a popular

Weekly news magazine: Time

[StClone]

25. I guess

Yes they are :-). See below.

Luntz did not use the term Climate Change first. The fact Bush Administration wants it used speaks volumes.

[crispini]

20. Hum, well, the problem with the term "Global Warming" is that

people say, "Well, it's colder where I am, so where's this global warming you're talking about, yuk yuk!"

Maybe "Climate Crisis" is the best phrase to convey it.

[SidDithers]

22. What a crock of shit...

Luntz did not come up with the term Climate Change. He may have co-opted it, but it was in use by environmental scientists long before Luntz became a "master propagandist".

Here, from the journal Climatic Change Volume 1, Number 1, March 1977

Climate change and the world predicament: A case study for interdisciplinary research

Luntz was 15 at the time the article was published.

As I said, crock of shit.

Sid

[StClone]

23. Newsweek and Time say he did

Why don't you e-mail them.

And as for "Master Propagandist" he is exactly according to Lakoff. Luntz, if he didn't invent it, he certainly pushed its usage. I'll note the correction but not the goal of how or why it suits their goals.