
Doing their bit to illustrate the dangers of climate disruption, the First Family jets off on vacation
Let’s call it “climate disruption”, White House suggests.
This fraud’s name is changing almost as fast as a contemporary map of Eastern Europe,and far faster than the world is actually, you know, warming.
First there was “global warming.” Then many researchers suggested “climate change” was a better term. Now, White House science adviser John Holdren is renewing his call for a new nomenclature to describe the end result of dumping vast quantities of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases into Earth’s atmosphere: “global climate disruption.”
“I’ve always thought that the phrase ‘global warming’ was something of a misnomer because it suggests that the phenomenon is something that is uniform around the world, that it’s all about temperature, and that it’s gradual,” Holdren said yesterday at the annual AAAS Forum on Science and Technology Policy in Washington, D.C.
Instead, he said, “we should call it ‘global climate disruption.’ Although the rising average global surface temperature is an indicator of the degree of disruption that we have imposed on the global climate system, what’s actually happening involves changes in circulation patterns, changes in precipitation patterns, and changes in extremes. And those are very different in different places.”
We used to attribute “changes in circulation patterns” to El Niño, an ocean circulatory phenomenon that’s been around forever, even in the pre-fossil fuel era, and by golly, another one’s set to form again, this year. Forget that you ever heard that term; you won’t hear it again.
We lost “global warming” when the great hockey stick hoax was exposed, and “climate change” when people began noticing that what we were actually talking about was weather. So they’re trotting out a new phrase. How long before the media toes the new line and substitutes “weather disruption”? My guess is only as long as it takes for the first severe storm to hit the United States.