Hedging On Global Warming ; Climate Alarmists Change Vocabulary for Losing Argument

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In a season of rebranding, the White House has thrown the old "global warming" bugaboo under the bus in favor of a new propaganda campaign against so-called "global climate disruption." White House science adviser John P. Holdren, who has been promoting this term since at least 2007, calls "global warming" a "dangerous misnomer" that "implies something gradual, uniform and benign." According to his alarmist school, the world is facing a danger that is complex, chaotic and coming on fast.

Climate alarmists previously attempted to rebrand their pet peeve as "global climate change," but that term wasn't frightening enough to motivate an increasingly skeptical public. It also doesn't mesh with other Obama administration messaging; it's hard to take a stand against "change" when that word has been branded as one of the pillars of the Obama mystique.

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Hedging On Global Warming ; Climate Alarmists Change Vocabulary for Losing Argument

Scary-sounding "disruption" is a much better propaganda tool than "warming" because warming can be quantified easily and thus disp...

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