A dangerous shift in Obama’s ‘climate change’ rhetoric

Washington Post ^ | January 27, 2012 | By Maxwell T. Boykoff

[Oldeconomybuyer]

What happened to “climate change” and “global warming”?

The Earth is still getting hotter, but those terms have nearly disappeared from political vocabulary.

President Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday was a prime example of this shift. The president said “climate change” just once. By contrast, Obama used the terms “energy” and “clean energy” nearly two dozen times.

A recent Brown University study looked specifically at the Obama administration’s language and found that mentions of “climate change” have been replaced by calls for “clean energy” and “energy independence.” Graciela Kincaid, a co-author of the study, wrote: “The phrases ‘climate change’ and ‘global warming’ have become all but taboo on Capitol Hill. These terms are stunningly absent from the political arena.”

Calling climate change by another name creates limits of its own. The way we talk about the problem affects how we deal with it. And though some new wording may deflect political heat, it can’t alter the fact that, “climate change” or not, the climate is changing.

[sergeantdave]

What everyone needs to understand about Marxist butt-boys like Maxwell the bed-wetter is that his ilk lie, constantly and forever.

If anyone was paying attention - and I was - Maxwell the obuma butt-boy told us back in 1998 that the island of Tuvalu would sink under the ocean by 2003. It didn’t and the island is still there.

The obuma butt-boys like Maxwell hate being called out on their ridiculous global warming predictions because they’re always wrong.

The best normal people can do with idiots like Maxwell is get them alone, in a dark parking lot, with nobody around and kick their wimpy asses.

Leftists understand violence and a good beating. It stops them everytime.

[Lancey Howard]

[jdsteel]

True; but it’s also true that there has been no additional warming over the last decade.