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Let's Call It 'Climate Disruption,' White House Science Adviser Suggests (Again)

Posted by timothy on from the let's-just-settle-on-nuclear-winter dept.

sciencehabit (1205606) writes "First there was 'global warming.' Then many researchers suggested 'climate change' was a better term. Now, White House science adviser John Holdren is renewing his call for a new nomenclature to describe the end result of dumping vast quantities of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases into Earth's atmosphere: 'global climate disruption.'"

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  1. Re:Disruption sounds temporary ... by ColdWetDog · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Nothing is permanent. They earth's climate has 'changed' drastically over several billion years.

    And disruption really is more accurate. The data really does support that anthropogenic inputs have altered the natural climate flows (along with meteors, volcanoes and perhaps some other things, but this time it's all about us). And this will disrupt many human activities (I suppose it will also change them).

    Still and all it's semantics and unlikely to make a dent in the noise surrounding the topic.

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