]> 2026-04-10T09:41:58+00:00 Climate Change Lie - Workflow 0 en Climate Change Is A Lie How and why labeling our crisis as “change” has cost us time. I would argue this title is not true. "Climate Change" is not a lie. It is literally, correctly, and for what it communicates, completely true and there is no deception in fact or motivation by the people who use the phrase. I do not she is lying about lying, she is simply wrong. Here is her argument: Change is inevitable, this was not. I read the article and she makes the case, but it was extremely disappointing that she didn't actually offer a new phrase for "climate change". Just some descriptors (thundersnow? .. etc). I don't think she read the definitive book on the subject... The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming By: David Wallace-Wells I really really wish she had not wasted my time without a good suggestion. Perhaps Earth Death? Earth Murder? Planet Death? Planet Murder? Climate Murder? Climate Poisoning? I dunno. Here is her case for saying ... Climate change, by that name is a lie. The now obvious global threat, was most often referred to as “The greenhouse effect” through the first half of the twentieth century. Although Svante Arrhenius discovered the phenomena in 1896, he variously called it “climate fluctuations, climate warming, greenhouse warming,” and even “dangerous warming.” By the time he was completing his body of work, Arrhenius had come to believe that the additional carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could very well be positive. Additional warming by adding the emissions could possibly avert the next ice age and mellow out the frozen north. Let’s not forget that Arrhenius lived in Sweden, and the multi-factorial details of slight changes making enormous challenges, feedback loops, and more, were little known. One would think that given the modest amount of warming by greenhouse gases prior to the 20th century might make a long, Scandinavian winter, and a more productive green summer, a welcome benefit. Time has shown that hoping for a milder climate is not the change we got. Power of influence When Arrhenius won the Nobel prize in 1903, it was not for his all-important discovery of the carbon warming effect. Carbon dioxide? Who knew, why care? His awarded Nobel was for chemistry, and cross-over sciences of physics, which was more novel, studied, and widely influential in their own time. Nevertheless, carbon rise in the mid-century of the 1960’s and 1970’s alarmed many observers. Pollution wasn’t very welcome, dependency on fossil fuels for national security wasn’t welcome, and a whole host of voices arose decrying obvious greenhouse warming. Population size and consumption had grown considerably. It was about this time that fossil fuel giants, and their political allies, first began to realize they had better shape public opinion in their favor. They launched a disinformation campaign and spent billions on it. James Hansen testified to congress about Climate in 1988, and as the Bush years unrolled, so did new terminology which suggested, the phrase “climate change” should be used to “emphasize the scientific uncertainty” of the new research. This was notably the position of the Republicans at the time, who overwhelmingly were polled to discover that belief in “climate change” was much higher than “climate warming, or global warming,” and a whole lot less threatening, especially to lobbyists. “We lost decades of opportunity,” reported geophysicist Michael Mann. The last three decades, have indeed been crucial in stepping up to the challenges we see now. It was advisor Frank Luntz who notoriously warned that the new label should stick because on the topic of environmental concerns, and the prospect of global heating, the Bush administration was “most vulnerable in their stance.” The publication Grist declared that Luntz is a “founding father of climate denial.” AfdDdaDejEafDddAde0e Workflow User:Jsterj User:Merel2 User:Rht5 User:Frank 5 Climate Change Lie https://medium.com/greener-together/climate-change-is-a-lie-d5ef30aa5916 <i>It is not true that Climate Change is a Lie</i> No done done Settled A false claim of a lie Climate Change Lie - Workflow 2022-02-09T14:32:08Z 2459620.1056482 Climate Change Lie - Workflow 1368 0 1 plainlist 4 [[Class::Suit]] [[Case ID::AfdDdaDejEafDddAde0e]] Climate Change Lie - Workflow# QUERY83238db99b2c7938b4e8a033ccf1eab4 Verdict:AfdDdaDejEafDddAde0e/1 3000 en AfdDdaDejEafDddAde0e/1 Verdict:AfdDdaDejEafDddAde0e/2 3000 en AfdDdaDejEafDddAde0e/2 Verdict:AfdDdaDejEafDddAde0e/3 3000 en AfdDdaDejEafDddAde0e/3 Verdict:AfdDdaDejEafDddAde0e/4 3000 en AfdDdaDejEafDddAde0e/4 Verdict:AfdDdaDejEafDddAde0e/5 3000 en AfdDdaDejEafDddAde0e/5 Climate Change Lie 0 en Climate Change Lie Participant/222 0 en Participant/222 Participant/223 0 en Participant/223 Participant/224 0 en Participant/224 Participant/225 0 en Participant/225 Participant/226 0 en Participant/226 Workflow 102 en Workflow