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Fifth Column
Moving The Goalposts Again - Now It's Climate Disruption
2014-05-07

One quibble with the lead paragraph - thirty-five or so years ago, it was global cooling, then it was global warming, etc.
First there was "global warming." Then many researchers suggested "climate change" was a better term (around the time the East Anglia scientists were outed as lying bullshit artists? Just asking! - ed.). 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."
No mention of Obama's U.S. economic disruption, natch...
Posted by:Raj

#15  Still looking for the "just right" adjective that will bring around the remaining "3% of Scientists."
Posted by: Uncle Phester   2014-05-07 20:13  

#14  Didn't know that BP - thanks. The narrator didn't mention that either. And he really did say that if we didn't change our ways we would end up the same way as Venus.

Is this the kind of crap being taught in schools nowdays? Why do I have a bad feeling that it is?
Posted by: CrazyFool   2014-05-07 17:50  

#13  Venus is hotter mainly because it's got MORE atmosphere 93 times more pressure.
At an height were the pressure is the same as Earth's surface, the temperature is only hotter by a factor relating to the suns distance.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2014-05-07 17:31  

#12  Change the name!
Game's the same!
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839   2014-05-07 11:53  

#11  Please, lets not forget the Methane, a very high contributor to Climate Change Disruption. As I have said before these Democrats give me the sh*ts and thereby increase my methane output tenfold. After Big O's last edict, I am anticipating them passing some sort legislation, or encorporating a rule via Obamacare, or even an Executive Order, which addresses this condition, and raises additional revenue.

Cynical. Me?

Why, Yes....pfffft!

Oh, pardon me, I just passed some gas.

(IRS) - that will be 1 Dollar please for your "Methane Offset Tax".

Posted by: Omusons Lover of the Hemps8496   2014-05-07 11:37  

#10  Darth, nice paraphrase of Insty's classic line.

"I'll believe it's a crisis when the people telling me it's a crisis start acting like it's a crisis."
Posted by: AlanC   2014-05-07 11:35  

#9  And yet the people spouting this crap still take private jets all over the world and have a bigger carbon footprint than 10 average American combined.

Until these idiots start practicing what they preach and on top of that render themselves carbon neutral, I ain't buying it.
Posted by: DarthVader   2014-05-07 11:14  

#8  My son was watching this 'science' show last night about Venus. The narraitor, it think it was Ben Affact (sp?) or something was talking about how 'Venus was a goddess from hell full of heat and volcanoes and of course lots and lots of CO2 and if we didn't change our ways we were going to end up the same way!'. It was more of a Religious sermon the scientific presentation.

Never did he mention that Venus was much closer to the sun - or that the CO2 Venus has wasn't man-caused.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2014-05-07 11:08  

#7  cash and lots of it!
Posted by: Skunky Gurly-Brown5475   2014-05-07 10:51  

#6  Ultimate surrender. Can't prove warming. Can't even prove any systematic "change." So now we blame people for bad weather. Any word on what sort of sacrifice the angry weather gods are demanding?
Posted by: Iblis   2014-05-07 10:42  

#5  How can we forget "Nuclear Winter"?
Posted by: Pappy   2014-05-07 10:00  

#4  We survived Alar, we can handle the heat.
Posted by: Shipman   2014-05-07 08:34  

#3  Regardless, when you hear 'carbon' or 'CO2', it's the old Man Made Climate Change scam.
Posted by: P2kontheroad   2014-05-07 08:21  

#2  A rose by any othere name smells as sweet....

So does a skunk.
Posted by: AlanC   2014-05-07 07:47  

#1  Forgot Acid Rain, Ozone hole, Peak Oil and a few more scares-for-grants nonsense.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2014-05-07 06:22  

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