"Global warming, climate change climate crisis, etc.....

[Red Lion]

In recent years this has played out largely as a contest between "global warming" and "climate change." Bush's use of the latter was consistent with Republican practice, which calls for de-emphasizing the urgency of the situation, as recommended in a 2002 memo by strategist Frank Luntz.

George Lakoff, the Berkeley professor of linguistics and cognitive science, is a strong backer of the dark horse "climate crisis," which is also favored by Gore (along with the rather more cumbersome term he used in his congressional testimony last month, "planetary emergency"). "'Climate change' doesn't suggest immediate action," says Lakoff. "'Climate crisis' says immediate action needed. The framing is not just a matter of labels, it's modes of thought. In Europe they use 'climate chaos'."

Richard C.J. Somerville, a leading researcher on"”um, worldwide calorification?"”at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, thinks "global warming" is problematic because it puts the focus on worldwide average temperature, rather than the more serious regional dangers of storms, floods and drought. More pointedly, a leading Democratic strategist, Celinda Lake, actually endorsed "climate change" in 2004 on the grounds that "global warming" only works for half the year. "Every time we'd use the term in the winter, people would say, 'It doesn't feel that warm to me'," she said. (For the record, she now believes the issue has penetrated the public's awareness to the point where it doesn't matter much what it's called.)



http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17996843/site/newsweek/

[1SHOT_1KILL]

From the High Priest of the Church of the Painful Truth:

"I first brought you this news a few days ago ... now the rest of the media seems to be catching on. NASA, it seems, has been caught making a little calculation error on its temperature data ... for about the last ten years. Now NASA has corrected its data and ... guess what? It's not looking all that good for the global warming crowd.
Up until NASA figured out its numbers were wrong, it was generally accepted "“ at least by the global warming cultists "“ that 1998 was the hottest year ever in the U.S. OwlGore quoted that "fact" time after time in his speeches and his amusing movie.
Well .. that no longer is true. NASA, with their revised temperatures, now says that 1934 is the hottest year on record. In fact .. we now learn that about one-half of the ten hottest years on record occurred before man really started dumping those horrid CO2 emissions into the atmosphere.
So ... back to the drawing board." Here's your link to one of the stories covering this matter. [&:]

[Red Lion]

I posted the comments and link to highlight that "global warming" is just a popular term ofa few, thatmany put/use to describe climate shift/change/issues. One that that is misleadingand inaccurate for the larger picture of change.