Re:A troubling idea about climate change found new evidence ...
by LyndsySimon on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @01:13PM
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> I hate when people call it Climate Change. Thats a phrase right wing think tanks cooked up to soften the blow of the sound of Global Warming.
I find this statement ironic, considering that most of my friends believe that "global warming" became "climate change" because the predictions of the former failed to materialize.
Re:A troubling idea about climate change found new evidence ...
by johnmaguire2013 on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @11:40AM
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It's a little more complicated than that: https://skepticalscience.com/climate-change-global-warming.h...
Re:A troubling idea about climate change found new evidence ...
by padseeker on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @12:47PM
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Actually its not - Frank Lutz, a GOP operative, claims to have come up with the team 'climate change'.
Re:A troubling idea about climate change found new evidence ...
by Cretin2 on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @03:09PM
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It's obvious you never even considered reading the article:
Barrett and Gast published a letter in Science in 1971 entitled simply 'Climate Change'. The journal 'Climatic Change' was created in 1977 (and is still published today). The IPCC was formed in 1988, and of course the 'CC' is 'climate change', not 'global warming'.
Lutz proposed this as a PR method during the Bush administration.
No amount of evidence is going to convince Global Warming deniers. But those who deny but also suffer from the effects will be the first ones with their hands out asking the government for money to save to bail them out.
I'm glad the WashPo is writing these kinds of articles, but nothing is going to convince climate 'skeptics'. Stop wasting your time trying to reason with people who cannot be reasoned with.