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"People are saying what in the world is going on with North Carolina, we look like Mississippi." - NC Gov. Bev Perdue (D) on the passage of Amendment One, 5-11-12
WH wants to change “global warming” to “global climate disruption”
Via Fox News:
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.
Hmph. That sure is funny, considering the term has “worked” magic for them for the last few decades in terms of it – and the agw crowd’s – ability to deliberately deceive millions of people. Wonder what changed? Oh, I know what it was: It was poll after poll after poll showing doubts about whether or not global warming is “man-made” and doubts about whether or not the government should make addressing the issue a “top priority.” The administration knows that people are finally waking up, thanks in part to scandals like ClimateGate and the various stories coming out of the woodwork about the fraudulent IPCC. So they’re wanting to play word games in hopes that they can dupe people all over again and reverse the cycle.
As I’ve said before, altering terminology and changing the definitions of words are some of the most dangerous games the left can play. It’s how they – with the help of the MSM – are able to deceive many, many people and turn them into uninformed, ignorant liberals. For example, think about how, for years, the left has controlled the debate on “women’s health issues.” The term “women’s health issues” is code for “abortion.” Talk to a pro-abortion leftist sometime and call them “pro-abortion.” Usually, they’ll angrily correct you by saying that they are “pro-choice.” They even hate the term “pro-life” and often instead use the term “anti-choice” instead. Think about the term “vegetative state.” When you think of someone who is in that condition in terms of a vegetable, it makes it a little less difficult to view them as less than human, therefore seemingly easing the life or death decisions family members must make in those situations. Another example: illegal immigrants are “undocumented workers” or “undocumented citizens.”
These people know what they are doing when they literally change the terms of the debate. They know if they called “women’s issues” what they really were, which is “abortion” – aka the termination of an innocent unborn life, or if they called “PVS” something other than something having to do with being like a vegetable, they’d never gain any traction. So they reframe debates by using the phony, dressed-up, sometimes emotive terms they think will best persuade voters and politicos to their side of the argument. And once they do, they control both the debate – and the government agenda locally, statewide, and nationally.
In the case of “global warming” and the desire of the Obama administration to now characterize it as “global climate disruption,” it’s not so much that “global warming” is a more apt description of what’s happening, it’s that more and more people have had an awakening on the issue over the last few years and no longer see it as a priority issue, with some even doubting that the science is “settled” (heretics!) so the administration is having to shift gears and try to shift momentum back in their favor. This administration, and other movers and shakers on the left in general, will never ever waste an opportunity to use any means necessary, including highly deceptive tactics, in order to “win” the debate. It’s shameless, and we must call it out whenever we see it.
Or they win.
Cross-posted to Right Wing News.
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Even more of the opportunistic left’s quest for power and control. What’s really disappointing is how many seemingly sane and intelligent people never question them. Most people don’t even know who their local representatives are. This is what we’re fighting against. Voter turnout in Vermont’s recent primary was 23% of eligible and it was called “high”.
Actually, it went from “global warming” to “climate change”. Now it’s “global climate disruption”.
They had to change the “warming” part because global cooling was integral in some scientific studies – so that’s no good.
Then “climate change” was the term of the month, but it has too much of an obvious association to climate in general – climate always changes . . . damn, we need something more psychologically intimidating.
How about “global climate disruption”? Yeah, that’s the ominous, threatening tag we’re looking for to move our agenda off the back burner.
Next up – “Global Climate Annihilation Of The Entire Human Race” (or something)
I wonder if they call the massive hit we’re going to give them in November an inverted victory.
Let’s not forget “a sorry band of men” for radical Islamist terrorists. No wonder the economy is sinking faster than New Orleans. Our leaders are spending all their time trying to think up euphemisms to deceive the American people instead of working to fix the country’s problems.
I wonder how much time was spent ‘creating’ the new Dem logo – D for d’uh. They’re falling all over themselves patting each other on the back for this ‘brilliant’ new face of the D party.
“global climate disruption” sounds so temporary.
Maybe they finally get it.
“Okay, Fellow Dems, now this whole global warming thing hasn’t sold and the evil planet-hating rightwing nutjobs claim we can’t prove it so let’s go with ‘Global Climate Disruption’, a term that’s more vague and easier to swallow and since it’s got three words instead of two, by the time our base gets to the end of it they’ll believe it because it sounds big and has no real basis in fact. And then let’s start working on getting rid of that term ‘jackass’ for our party–so unseemly. Let’s call ourselves ‘The Burden Carrying Service Party’, again, a long, senseless and confusing term that will sell and sound less insulting and reinforce that notion that we are all about the people, especially the people on generational welfare and the unions. Okay, gang: GO SPREAD THE WORD and then we can easily shove through Cap and Tax with no muss or fuss.”
…it does sound like a temporary inconvenience. After the disruption, things will just go back to “normal”???
Reminds me of the Wizard of Oz…pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. In this case, the man making these silly speeches to a bunch of people who are in the tank with him for man-made global destruction (which I think is what he really wanted to say).
Lots more about John Holdren and his views here.
The WH is now officially known as Anti-American disruptive anti-freedom ‘we know better than you about everything don’t question us’ antagonists.
“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”
That is a total non sequiter because the “education” sponsored by the state the last few decades IS ignorance.
And unreasonably expensive.
I will buy into the term “global climate disruption” when the libs and media buy into the term “America’s prosperity disruption” as the nomenclature for the “man caused disaster’s” presidency!
Mr. Obama meet the weather.
He is the idiot along with globalists who believes we should eliminate 80% of the world population. He should volunteer.:d
Just today, via Bob Parks, I read that the energy czar wants to mandate the energy efficiency of appliances. I just paid one arm and 5/8 of a leg for a new Energy Star washing machine after my $50 used machine bit the suds. It wasn’t even a top-end model with bells and whistles.
I can only imagine the tax-payer subsidies for the impoverished – or the way that Big Government will take landlords to the cleaners!