A buzzword I missed
I'm behind the curve in the climate change debate. There's a whole new term that got past me until today.
We've had:
global warming
global warming deniers
climate change
global warming alarmists
And now we have climate deniers, which I assume is shorthand for "climate change deniers." It's been around for at least a year, but I've missed it.
But it's kind of funny. No one who I knows who doubts global warming or climate change denies that there is such a thing as climate.
But it fits in the limited space allotted for headlines, and it provides that smugness that people heavily invested in either side of the debate feel they need. Those are the important things.
Are there any climate buzz words I've missed?
Personally, the world could be warming or it could be cooling. The average temperature could be increasing, but the distribution of heat is more important than the total heat. (Did you hear about the guy who drowned in the lake that had an average depth of three inches?). The lag between getting good data and doing something with it could be longer than the actual fluctuations in temperature and heat. And more than half the people who work themselves into a frenzy over this really don't know as much as they think they do, as they have too much information to cherry-pick and/or ignore.
Too many people are using climate change to enrich themselves or bring about political ends that give them more control.
