'Global Warming' or 'Climate Change?': Which Is the Proper Term?

NBC News ^ | 05/27/2014 | Bill Briggs

[SeekAndFind]

Welcome to the “to-MA-to”--“to-MAH-to” debate for discussing a toastier Earth.

A new Yale University study finds that sort of verbal switcheroo carries weight when Americans use or hear “global warming” versus “climate change.”

Depending on the political views of the person speaking or listening, the phrase “global warming” and “climate change” can evoke opposing emotions and beliefs –- and varying degrees of urgency about our obligation to respond, Yale researchers reported Tuesday.

But no matter which side of the debate a person falls on, there’s a common truth: the utterance of “global warming” is more apt to grab his or her attention than the use of “climate change” the researchers found.

For example, referencing “global warming” (as opposed to “climate change”) is linked to “a greater sense of personal threat, especially among women, the Greatest Generation (68+), African-Americans, Hispanics, Democrats, Independents, Republicans, liberals and moderates,” states the Yale report.

The study, which does not endorse or disavow any atmospheric science, had one goal –- to learn how the two terms “get interpreted by the American public,” said lead researcher Anthony Leiserowitz, a research scientist at Yale’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. The findings are based on two nationally representative surveys of more than 2,600 American adults conducted between November and January.

[BitWielder1]

Weather.

[Corey Ohlis]

Gotta agree, given my Freeper name.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Or Globull Warming Shakedown.

[Starstruck]

It is hard to pin the polar vortex on global warming, even though the leftist tried to do so. I think this winter got more and more people skeptical about global warming. Eventually people can only take so much flimflam before they realize they are being scammed.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“Horse Manure. “

Road Apples!

[Jim Noble]

'Global Warming' or 'Climate Change?': Which Is the Proper Term?

I think Minitrue has changed it to "Climate Disruption", or perhaps it has always been Climate Disruption. Keeping up with prolefeed is very difficult.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

I prefer BULLSHAT!

[EEGator]

“Eventually people can only take so much flimflam before they realize they are being scammed.”

“No one in this world, so far as I know, has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people” - H.L. Mencken

[QT3.14]

Globaloney Warming *

* Approved by Al Gore the Grand Klimatologist of the Klimate Klux Klan

[John S Mosby]

Horse or bull....it’s still crap.

[Mark]

#Bring our global cooling back!

[ßuddaßudd]

Weather ?

[Jack Hammer]

Actually, the proper term is: horse sh*t.

[ConservativeStatement]

“The planet has a fee-ver,” Al Gore.

[upchuck]

'Global Warming' or 'Climate Change?': Which Is the Proper Term?

IMHO, neither term is correct. I prefer weather. Always there. Always changing. Some people live where it sucks, some people live where it's nice.

The most overblown hoax in the History of Man. Damned expensive, too.

[Hoodat]

Envirofascism.

[GreenHornet]

The “correct” term was Global Warming, until this past winter, when much of the country was hammered by one snowstorm after another. Even the low information voters, who were continuing shoveling out from under all of the Global Warming that fell, were no longer buying the “warming” bit, so the term “Climate Change” had to be substituted in its place. (Much the same way Democrats stopped using the term “Obamacare” and started using “Affordable Care Act” after the American people saw what a disaster that was.)

[thorvaldr]

‘Global Warming’ or ‘Climate Change?’: Which Is the Proper Term?’
If it’s cold outside it’s called “climate change” since weather isn’t climate.
If it’s hot outside it’s called “global warming” because weather is climate.

[samtheman]

GoreBall Warming

[VanDeKoik]

Fiction.