How Did 'Climate Change' and 'Global Warming' Turn Into a Misleading Trump Talking Point?

[malaise]

https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/how-did-climate-change-and-global-warming-turn-misleading-trump-talking-point
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During an interview with journalist Piers Morgan that aired Sunday on Britain’s ITV network, U.S. President Donald Trump brought up a meme used often by those who deny climate change. It’s a talking point that deserves a proper burial. Trump said:

"There is a cooling, and there’s a heating. I mean, look, it used to not be climate change, it used to be global warming. That wasn’t working too well because it was getting too cold all over the place.”

The history of the phrases “climate change” and “global warming” is much more interesting than Trump gives it credit for. Researchers were using climatic change or climate change as far back as the early 20th century when writing about events such as ice ages. Both terms can describe past, present, or future shifts—both natural and human-produced—on global, regional, or local scales.

The prestigious journal Climatic Change debuted in 1977, belying Trump’s claim that “it used to not be climate change.”

By the 1970s, scientists were becoming increasingly concerned about the threat of climate change arising from human-produced greenhouse gases. Global temperatures had been relatively flat since the 1940s, and several intense cold waves and snowstorms in North America and Europe grabbed public attention in the 1970s. A few scientists worried that the post-war growth of sun-blocking pollutants could push Earth toward the possibility of a new ice age, as covered in TIME (1974) and Newsweek (1975). Thomas Peterson (NOAA/NCEI) later showed that the vast majority of peer-reviewed research on climate change published in the 1970s was more concerned about the longer-term warming threat from fossil fuels than about global cooling.

In 1975, Wallace Broecker (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory) published a paper in the journal Science titled “Climatic change: Are we on the brink of a pronounced global warming?” This appears to have been the first use of “global warming” in a paper title, and it caught on.
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[BigmanPigman]

1. Because he is a fucking moron

and his base of blind sheep are also morons.

[Mister Ed]

4. It's that simple. He's a moron leading morons.

No one in his base would even get through the four-paragraph overview on climate change in the OP. Trump talks to them at a fourth-grade level instead, and they nod along and crack another beer.

[Arkansas Granny]

6. This. Once they have made up their tiny minds, they can't be budged or

persuaded by facts. And the worst of it is that they seem to be proud of their ignorance.

[VOX]

2. Misleading? That loudmouth orange blimp is lying his fat ass off...

Every. Single. Word. Is. A. Lie. From bullshit to the free press is “the enemy of the people.” Not a true word issues out of that loathsome, fast-food-chomping mouth.

Beyond that, what #45 knows about climate change could fit into a peanut shell and still have ample room to rattle around.

[malaise]

3. +1,000

Thanks for an early morning laughing fit.

[VOX]

5. Laughter is therapeutic... if only we could bottle it!

Burning the 2:00AM oil myself. I should hit the rack, but I’m an incurable nocturnal critter.