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- yuekit2
This is Why We Should Stop Calling it Climate Change
https://eand.co/this-is-why-we-s…
How many people knew this? The term "climate change" is actually the invention of a Republican political consultant (you could say propagandist), Frank Luntz.
Luntz was big on pointing out how the choice of words can influence public opinion. He invented the term "death tax" to replace inheritance tax, "off-shore exploration" instead of oil drilling. This is the memo he originally sent to George Bush back in the early 2000s:
"Voters believe that there is no consensus about global warming within the scientific community. Should the public come to believe that the scientific issues are settled, their views about global warming will change accordingly. Therefore, you need to continue to make the lack of scientific certainty a primary issue in the debate. The phrase "global warming" should be abandoned in favor of 'climate change'."
Apparently Luntz now regrets all of this and says he's no longer a Republican...but two decades later everyone is still saying the more neutral-sounding climate change instead of global warming.
- "Drill Baby Drill...Let's Go Brandon!"utopian
- All my liberal, well-educated intellectual friends supported this change in language at the time. Not knowing they were being dupednb
- They told me “you shouldn’t say global warming because it implies that if we have a slight drop one year then we don’t have to worry. Say ‘climate change’ ”nb
- Someone probably told them that the term global warming was racist.Chimp
- All marketing. There will surely be an article like and how FB, 'the big lie', etc., was promoted and marketed.formed
- While the D's continue to come up with stupid titles like "defund the police."formed
- Yeah but on the flip side it’s going to be a banner year for my tomatoes!_niko
- I cringe every time I hear “The Big Lie”. They need to hire this guy to come up with something a little more zingier.instrmntl
- Nobody really cared what it’s called. Some simply wanted to address the problem and some chose to ignore it.monospaced
- "Treason and Traitor" would have been a good term to start using.formed
- That's the thing Democrats titles are made by the activist while Republicans have lobbyist.pango
- an idiot says that the DNC coined the phrase "defund the police" to detract from the fact that police are military prepared to murder you without consequence.imbecile
- but yeah, blame democrats because police murder US citizens constantly, fucking idiotimbecile
- only a dimwit of incredible proportions assumes that only the party he/she doesnt like is doing this sort of PR.pr2
- and only even bigger dimwit belives a complex issue like changing climate is settled only because its hot outside in his part of the world.pr2
- milfhunter0
Its getting kinda HOT in here.
- drgs1
The average temperature probably hasn't changed much (?), the problem is that the weather is less stable compared to the previous decades, there is more deviation, more violent spikes in both direction
If 2022 is similar to 2019, there should be 20 C in the following weeks
https://weatherspark.com/h/y/479…
https://weatherspark.com/h/y/479…https://weatherspark.com/h/y/450…
https://weatherspark.com/h/y/450…
https://weatherspark.com/h/y/450…Oslo has been comfortably cool this year
https://weatherspark.com/h/y/686…- In winter 2021 Madrid had half a meter of snow, this year it was around 16c and sunny. Now it’s been around 40c for almost two weeks.Chimp
- NBQ002
Not just climate change and insane heat but everywhere just too many people. Can't catch a fucking train or metro that isn't packed. Airports full like crazy.
Where did all these people suddenly come under from?
No, Elon, stop with the baby making FFS.
- It’s not baby making. It’s a constant migration to cities for the past few centuries, plus a plethora of post-pandemic people pumped to party in publicnb
- neverscared1
the glaciers are fine .. come skiing to austria..
- neverscared0
Climate activists in Italy glue themselves to Botticelli painting
Members of Ultima Generazione (Last Generation) attach themselves to frame’s glass to protest without damaging artwork
- PhanLo0
Obviously never took Donnie's advice to rake the leaves.
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- grafician1
‘Soon the world will be unrecognisable’: is it still possible to prevent total climate meltdown?
Blistering heatwaves are just the start. We must accept how bad things are before we can head off global catastrophe, according to a leading UK scientist"
"The crucial point, he argues, is that there is now no chance of us avoiding a perilous, all-pervasive climate breakdown. We have passed the point of no return and can expect a future in which lethal heatwaves and temperatures in excess of 50C (120F) are common in the tropics; where summers at temperate latitudes will invariably be baking hot, and where our oceans are destined to become warm and acidic. “A child born in 2020 will face a far more hostile world that its grandparents did,” McGuire insists.'
- neverscared1
every minute 16 footballfields burn... twice as much as 20 years ago... aka. trajectory right into the ass of hell
Forest fires contribute to global greenhouse gas emissions and can negatively affect public health, economic activity, and provision of ecosystem services. In boreal forests, fires are a part of the ecosystem dynamics, while in the humid tropics, fires are largely human-induced and lead to forest degradation. Studies have shown changing fire dynamics across the globe due to both climate and land use change
- rzu-rzu1
https://sports.yahoo.com/kim-kou…
"Comedian Kevin Hart, two of the Kardashian sisters, actor Sylvester Stallone, and NBA player Dwayne Wade were among some of the biggest violators of their local water restrictions in Southern California as the state experiences its third year in a drought, according to The Los Angeles Times."
"A 26-acre Calabasas property listed under Hart exceeded its budget by 519% or 117,000 gallons in June.
Two Hidden Hills properties associated with Kim Kardashian went over their budget by about 230,000 gallons, while a 1.86-acre property near Calabasas belonging to Kourtney Kardashian exceeded its budget by about 101,000 gallons."- Were they even fined? They should be fined the cost of that water in bottle-price. So like $4 per gallon per monthnb
- neverscared2
Standing in the middle of China’s largest fresh water lake.
