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Global warming should be called global heating, says key scientist
The Guardian ^ | December 13, 2018 | by Jonathan Watts

Posted on 12/13/2018 9:28:08 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

“Global heating” is a more accurate term than “global warming” to describe the changes taking place to the world’s climate, according to a key scientist at the UK Met Office.

Prof Richard Betts, who leads the climate research arm of Britain’s meteorological monitoring organisation, made the comments amid growing evidence that rising temperatures have passed the comfort zone and are now bringing increased threats to humanity.

“Global heating is technically more correct because we are talking about changes in the energy balance of the planet,” the scientist said at the UN climate summit in Katowice, Poland. “We should be talking about risk rather than uncertainty.”

Betts said the shifting climate was pushing some natural processes – such as the blossoming of trees and laying of eggs – out of sync. “That’s already happening. We are also seeing higher temperatures of heatwaves. The kind of thing we saw this year will happen more often.

“Global warming doesn’t capture the scale of destruction. Speaking of hothouse Earth is legitimate,” he said.

The Paris pact was a firewall, he said. “It’s not helping us to keep the world as it is now. We’ve lost this opportunity already. It’s a firewall against climate chaos.”

This week’s climate talks have crept forward with only small progress towards a new global rulebook, but emissions continue to rise and the planet continues to heat.

“Things are obviously proceeding very slowly,” said Betts. “As a scientist, it’s frustrating to see we’re still at the point when temperatures are going up and emissions are going up. I’ve been in this for 25 years. I hoped we’d be beyond here by now.”

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1 posted on 12/13/2018 9:28:08 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We’d better go back and cover the Great Lakes with glaciers again.


2 posted on 12/13/2018 9:30:08 AM PST by relictele
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To: relictele

Global Heating sounds like a furnace repair place that advertises on Saturday pro wrestling broadcasts.


3 posted on 12/13/2018 9:31:34 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The correct scientific term is “weather.”


4 posted on 12/13/2018 9:31:45 AM PST by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation has ended!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If it wasn’t for global heating Chicago would still be under a mile of ice.


5 posted on 12/13/2018 9:31:54 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
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6 posted on 12/13/2018 9:32:01 AM PST by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

He’s a little late to the game. It’s now called “Climate change”, a safe, one-size-fits-all term that vaguely covers any scary crack-pot theory they come up with.


7 posted on 12/13/2018 9:32:15 AM PST by fidelis (Zonie and USAF Cold Warrior)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Money, money, money.....it’s all about money. Follow the money trail.
The left/UniParty are in a complete state of perpetual orgasm over the possibility of trillions in new taxes on the “unwashed masses” for this hoax. Send em to the largest insane asylum in the world: California...and don’t let em back out.


8 posted on 12/13/2018 9:32:24 AM PST by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The climate is changing. What component of that is caused by human activity? I’m not well versed enough to know, but I do know that the system is so complex, it’s likely no one really knows.

The best option is to plan for adaptation. What’s changing, and how can we live with it?


9 posted on 12/13/2018 9:33:06 AM PST by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Considering that we are actually still in an ice age, the only correct term could be global defrost on the counter.


10 posted on 12/13/2018 9:33:29 AM PST by fruser1
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I still like the classic, “Global Bulls^^^”


11 posted on 12/13/2018 9:34:12 AM PST by albie
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; All
On one hand, we’ve got politically correct global warming and heating.

But now we’ve got this.

March 12, 2018: Carbon Dioxide is a Cooling Gas According to NASA

12 posted on 12/13/2018 9:34:24 AM PST by Amendment10
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To: relictele

LOL! Yeah, how much “See Uh Oh 2” did it take to melt that mile thick ice? Tired yet? “They” aren’t.


13 posted on 12/13/2018 9:37:11 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

You’d think these people would be more afraid of the fires of Hell.


14 posted on 12/13/2018 9:42:31 AM PST by txrefugee
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where the real ‘global warming’ will be-


15 posted on 12/13/2018 9:46:17 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Speaking of hothouse Earth is legitimate,”

I remember back in the 1980s when POPULAR SCIENCE magazine had an editorial in which they said they would never use the term “Greenhouse Effect” again as it was proven wrong.

Ten or fifteen years later they re-jumped on the Glo-Bull Warming bandwagon.

The “Coming Ice Age” scare of the 1970s did not pan out.


16 posted on 12/13/2018 9:51:09 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: BenLurkin

Chicago is supposed to be under a mile of ice now due to the 1970s COMING ICE AGE scare.


17 posted on 12/13/2018 9:52:11 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Bubba_Leroy

“The correct scientific term is “weather.””

No. The correct scientific term is “climate.”


18 posted on 12/13/2018 9:58:34 AM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Global Warming Experts should be referred as Dumbass Morons!


19 posted on 12/13/2018 10:05:35 AM PST by Bommer (Help 2ndDivisionVet - https://www.gofundme.com/mvc.php?route=category&term=married-recent-amputee)
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“Global warming doesn’t capture the scale of destruction. Speaking of hothouse Earth is legitimate,” he said.

If "warming" isn't alarmist enough, how about the term "Global Self-Cleaning Oven".

20 posted on 12/13/2018 10:13:37 AM PST by Flick Lives
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