An Inconvenient Truth

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Aside from which, Siberia was once a desert. That seems highly unlikely.

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Much of Siberia is a desert.Like, it's a desert now.

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By the way in future replies I will refer to what we are discussing as CC rather than GW. Climate Change is more accurate, and encompasses the increase in Earth's average temp.

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You are aware that the widespread use of the term "climate change" instead of "global warming" originates with the Republican party and their hired ace spin doctor, Frank Luntz, don't you?

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Is there a reason I should care?

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Luntz is the guy who designed all of those completely fake, staged town hall meetings for the Bush campaign, renamed the estate tax the "death tax", changed privatized social security to "personalized" social security, etc.He's a spin doctor, holmes. It's his job to shape the words that are used in order to manipulate how you feel about them.He claims that "global warming" and "climate change" mean the same thing, but they do not.

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In fact, I don't see how that helps them.

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It helps them because "global warming" sounds scary and "climate change" sounds innocuous, and it isn't a lie even though it is less specific.Perfect spin.Here's his wiki page.An excerpt: A particularly disturbing Frontline interviewAnd a completely hilarious and very pointed interview with Samantha Bee on The Daily Show.Edited by schrafinator, : No reason given.Edited by schrafinator, : No reason given.Edited by schrafinator, : fixed link

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Well, if that's what you intend to do, I wish you'd stop using the term "man" to refer to all humanity. Even at the nadir of understanding about how gender assumptions load terms, the use of "man" never actually meant "all humanity".

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Talk to jar and Faith.They both think that it did, and does still.I don't get it.

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I should have known the idea that Luntz came up with CC was complete bullshit.

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My mistake, I should have been more specific.I wrote:You are aware that the widespread use of the term "climate change" instead of "global warming" originates with the Republican party and their hired ace spin doctor, Frank Luntz, don't you?I should have written:You are aware that the widespread use among politicians and major media outlets of the term "climate change" instead of "global warming" originates with the Republican party and their hired ace spin doctor, Frank Luntz, don't you?I never meant to claim nor imply that Luntz originated the term.

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Why do I think that Luntz's contribution was more about promoting himself as a coiner, or possibly just explaining to Bush how to use it as spin, rather than being the inventor and prolificator of the term?

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I think the second is correct.