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They Don't Talk in Everlasting Words

By Paul Chesser on 11.29.10 @ 11:30AM

We know the memo circulating around the environoiac Leftosphere was to not call "global warming" "global warming" any more, but to instead use the greater encompassing "climate change." Obama administration science adviser John Holdren updated the blueprint a couple of months ago:

At the Environmental Protection Agency's 40th celebration of the Clean Air Act, Holdren said, "I think one of the failures of the scientific community was in embracing the term 'global warming'. Global warming is in fact a dangerous misnomer." And in a speech last week in Norway, echoing remarks he made at a 2007 speech at Harvard University, Holdren said the term "global climate disruption" should be used instead of "global warming."

Now USA Today reports that "climate" doesn't work either:

"Everybody is rethinking their priorities," says Ken Cook, president of the Environmental Working Group. He says it was a "mistake" for environmentalists to focus single-mindedly on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Rather, he says, they need to pitch their concerns as "kitchen table" issues that directly affect people. For example, he cites the presence of the estrogen-like chemical bisphenol A, or BPA, in food packaging. "That's personal to them. Climate is not," he says.

"Climate ... seems to have become a dirty word," says Melinda Pierce, lead lobbyist for the Sierra Club. She says environmentalists need to seek smaller, specific victories. "If we talk electric cars," she says, "people find that appealing."

Yes, just don't make it a discussion about temperature, weather, etc., any more -- that is officially now a failed strategy for the nanny-staters who want to control your lives.

topics:
Global Warming, Environmentalism, Climate Change

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Tom Osterman| 11.29.10 @ 11:45AM

...and this is as close as leftists will come to admitting that "global warming" was a lie from the beginning.

Re-read "1984." When the Ministry of Truth exhausts one lie, it simply changes its story.

Eric Cartman| 11.29.10 @ 12:06PM

Ohhhh, you sexy She devil, Malinda! You know what I like! Go on . . . say it! Tell me about your Prius while we make thee love! Say it, naughty girl, say it! Say estrogen-like chemical bisphenol A! Ooooo, yeah! Now show it to me . . . show me the Nisson Leaf brochure again! Ooooo baby, you know how to get me thinking about bovine gas, you little climate slut.

Pete| 11.29.10 @ 12:09PM

I love that term...from now on, I will only refer to Al Gore as a "climate slut."

Mow 'em Down| 11.29.10 @ 12:13PM

I prefer the term "climate whore. "

Eric Cartman| 11.29.10 @ 12:34PM

Sorry, Mow. Gore is a Power Whore, but a Climate Slut.

Pete| 11.29.10 @ 1:12PM

Technically, I suppose, whore is the more correct term since there is certainly money involved. But slut rolls off the tongue better and implies deep, intentional character flaws. I will just let it depend on how I feel on a particular day.

Eric Cartman| 11.29.10 @ 1:26PM

Well, I see your point. I look at Gore and equate his lust for power as a money thing - so, to me, he's a Power Whore. I see him jumping in bed with anybody or anything (think polar bears) for climate sex and see a slut - any time, any place. But, I can see it your way. But slut does roll off the tongue better. This Gore dualism should be studied at the highest level. Very interesting.

Ken (Old Texican)| 11.29.10 @ 1:25PM

Hey guys,
How about we go whole hog. (Excuse me, Muslims).
Nahhh, don't excuse me, Muslims. Youall just keep having sex with STDs infected sheep....but only pretty ones.
Hmmmmm.....
Climate/sluts equal..."STD infected power whores".
...How about...nahhh I'm not going to go there.