"The White House wants the public to start using the term 'global climate disruption' in place of 'global warming' -- fearing the latter term oversimplifies the problem and makes it sound less dangerous than it really is."
- Fox News, 09.16.2010
This made me, literally, laugh out loud. Check out the article. The government basically wants any reason to panic and point to the desperate need for "Cap and Tax" legislation any time the weather changes from rain to sun to snow to wind. Any "disruption" in our weather will be cause for alarm.
I live in Seattle for goodness sakes...we have odd weather patterns. The environmentalists around here are going to be in heart-attack mode each night when the weatherman gives his evening report: Oh my gosh! It's been sunny and now...it's going to RAIN!! Call Al Gore!
It doesn't surprise me. If you haven't noticed...there's a lot of re-branding going on (see my previous post...and did you know the Democratic party announced it's re-branding today? New slogan, new website, new logo. See it here.).
Source:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/09/16/white-house-global-warming-global-climate-disruption/
Speaking of re-branding, did you hear about the re-branding of High Fructose Corn Syrup?
ReplyDeletehttp://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100914/ap_on_bi_ge/us_corn_syrup_image
The technique works, whatever the criticism. Just look at the re-branding of "Rapeseed oil" to "Canola oil" in 1978.
Or even in the church we have the re-branding of "inactive" members to "less-actives" members just a decade ago or so.