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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. so the hockey stick graph is bullshit after all? by lseltzer · · Score: 0, Troll

    (This is the graph that has been all shaft and no blade for the last 12 years or so.) Didn't the "overwhelming scientific consensus" believe in that not too long ago?

  2. Re:Thats a good name by phantomfive · · Score: 1, Troll

    Can you name any are of the world that had it's climate disrupted as a result of global warming? Because polar vortices are not a result of AGW

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  3. "Global warming" by Livius · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...was a fine name in the rest of the world, but Americans don't understand the meaning of 'global'.

  4. Re:I gotta better name by phantomfive · · Score: 0, Troll

    Aren't you the idiot who in another thread thinks that comic strips are some kind of evidence? Carry on, retard.

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