Is it climate change or global warming? How science and a secret memo shaped the answer

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Climate change or global warming? The reasons why there are different terms to describe one phenomenon is a tale that reveals how thinking can change on a topic -- and how language was shaped by politics and talking points in a secret memo.

As director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, Anthony Leiserowitz gets brought in to a lot of conversations about the topic. He shapes stories about it with other scientist for publication. He talks to CEOs and politicians. He gives lectures. He's ready to answer just about any heavy questions about the complicated subject. But often, the first question he gets is a simple one.

— Donald J. Trump January 29, 2019 In politics, in public policy and in everyday conversation, for the most part,"climate change" has become more common. The United Nations has the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The National Climate Assessment says it summarizes the impacts of"climate change." Congress named its subcommittee Environment & Climate Change, not Global Warming.

 

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They are different? You said 'OR'! i thought they were the same by you non-scientists. Science researches every angle. Politicizing anything is NOT science but something add not NEEDED. Truth is truth, even NOT wanted to be seen! Sillies!!!

All these comments about liberal vs conservative. This is NOT A POLITICAL ISSUE. Science has already decided this. Stop being ridiculous and get educated.

As a scientist I support the base sciences of warming with carbon increase, but I see no good support for attributing much of these weather events to that warming. They are all occurring just like they have for thousands of years, just more impact on people now.

Neither.

Any chance there is a higher power doing all these things? Any chance he's sending a message? For most of you probably not. So you'll live through it, complain about it, fight against it, die in it & perish eternally. Science isn't the answer. Jesus is! God grant you find it.

Why should US native born old white men care what happens to a World that Democrats and CNN want to be over-run by 3rd World'rs? If we have no borders, there is nothing that can be protected and saved for future generations, as the 3rd World population grows by 383,000 per day.

You forgot the farting cows

When they can get the weather right for 1 year I may take them a bit more seriously but looking at graphs over the past 1 million years I don't see anything unusual.

You mean whatever narrative the democrats told you to push is what shaped the answer?

It’s whatever “scientists” can get the idiots to buy into. We should all do what we can to be good to our planet-but it won’t be gone in 12 years-🤦‍♀️

In the 70s you sciensh1t called it Global warming now you call it Climate Change , you think you have Master degree and you’re fooling people ? Not today not if im here ! You scientists think you can predict “ Mother nature” ? Explain why Atlantic city subdued and Aussie floated

Both are presented equally false.

It's both.

Well FrankLuntz, you certainly deserve A lot of the blame for the delays in finding a solution...

Calif. 50yrs ago wild fires in the hills, mud slides, drought oh my climate change? If you all really do Care About Mother Earth than support ZPG(zero population growth). Want to stop poverty and pollution ZPG is the only answer! PS: AI and more Robotics = less workers needed!

Everything we do creates heat. Your car creates heat, heating your home creates heat, & cooling your home creates heat. Now multiply that by 7 Billion. Is it carbon or over population?

But I guess Bernardino Co California isn’t worried about all of us dying in 10yrs. The classic liberal, I don’t want that in my neighborhood so put it in someone else’s 😏

It’s political alarmism resulting in legal theft of your hard earned money. Carbon is not currency!

At 700 billion a year what matters what they call it. So if you believe in Climate change. Stop spending money on wither it's true. Clean it up.

It is whatever it is. Advancing technology will likely reduce the need (and the expense) of burning fossil fuels in the near future. But what will NOT happen is that any people on Earth will voluntarily accept a lower standard of living based on the predictions of scientists.

Every show I have ever seen about the past. Says a warmer planet is a wetter planet. Warmer and wetter means more plants to feed more animals. Bananas in Texas and cotton in Canada how is that a bad thing. The Sahara mite turn in to grass lands again.

Normal people care about jobs. Elites care about climate.

kruse_r

*cough* bullshit *cough*

Climate has been changing since the freakin Ice Age!

It's Mother Nature's extreme exhaustion w/trying to accommodate a species which has demonstrated for eons its inability to RESPECT Her ... to PURSUE PEACE rather than rapacious & selfish interests ... to READ SIGNS of Her acute distress. She's becoming RESTIVE. I agree w/her. 💐

It's called a hoax.

If we are going to die eventually from alleged climate change. why should we do anything? It's just a tax at the end of the day

Or is it just another lie to control people and claim more tax revenue?

That's what's known as 'a false dilemma'.

The question for me is, why did the government adjust or tamper with historical temperature data in the first place? Tampering or adjusting suggest there was an ulterior motive and/or desired outcome. Why else do it?

Some might find climate change complicated to understand... Its been getting hot, then it will cool back down and become cold....

It’s weather and it’s been going on since the earth was formed ..

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It is neither! It’s MAN MADE! You see——- I got a Machine! I just move a few dials,flip a couple of switches and Wa La! Instant weather! 🤔🧐😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😎🇺🇸☝️

It's none of the above

Both 🤔

Both One then the other.

It’s stop polluting and treating the planet like a dump. We can do a lot better but we can not control the global environment. That’s a fools game.

We know the answer

Or...wait for it...is it just plain old WEATHER?

When you believe the Red Sea can be parted but not that glaciers are retreating due to melting ice from climate change, you really shouldn't offer an opinion on the subject.

It’s liberal fraud. Nothing more.

Its whatever they want to call it on a week by week basis to perpetuate the lies and scams. The new one is Climate Catastrophy.

Climate change makes more sense

FreeRealityWinner

Depends, if it's winter it's called climate change, summer it's global warming. But altogether is a big government money grab.

We'll let you know in 12 years.

It is. Drumroll. Bullshit

Little column A, little column B...

Its none of the Above... look at Nature and see how it determines itself.

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