On 4/01/2020 10:56 am, David wrote:
It's interesting to note the way PR companies succeeded in changing the language when awareness of GW began developing. The original term was "greenhouse warming" which neatly incorporated the cause of the problem (accumulation of greenhouse gasses) and the effect (planetary warming). PR first changed the language to "global warming" which got rid of the cause, then to "climate change" which leaves it all wide open; maybe the planet is cooling?
The radical honest media is now calling it global heating. I saw that first in The Guardian, but then noticed it in other publications as well, one or two. Heating is far more scary than warming, which is frog in the pot dangerous. Global Burning may be more appropriate now and might start to get attention.
HNY 2020, Linkers. Let's hope it's going to be better than last year. I'm afraid the trend over the last few years hasn't been stellar on that direction, though.
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