[LINK] O/t A strange reluctance of the media to explain it

[Roger Clarke]

On 4/1/20 11:36 am, JLWhitaker wrote:
> On 4/01/2020 10:56 am, David wrote:
>> It's interesting to note the way PR companies succeeded in changing 
>> the language when awareness of GW began developing.  The original term 
>> was "greenhouse warming" which neatly incorporated the cause of the 
>> problem (accumulation of greenhouse gasses) and the effect (planetary 
>> warming).  PR first changed the language to "global warming" which got 
>> rid of the cause, then to "climate change" which leaves it all wide 
>> open; maybe the planet is cooling?
> 
> The radical honest media is now calling it global heating. I saw that 
> first in The Guardian, but then noticed it in other publications as 
> well, one or two. Heating is far more scary than warming, which is frog 
> in the pot dangerous. Global Burning may be more appropriate now and 
> might start to get attention.

Long, long time Anthropomorphic Global Overheating (Long, long time AGO)

Anthropomorphic Global Overheating Needs You (AGONY)

Anthropomorphic Global Overheating Needs Everyone's Resolve (A GONER)

Anthropomorphic but Avoidable Radical Global Heating  (AARGH!)


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