Americans Worry More About "Global Warming" Than "Climate Change"

[ColaWarVeteran]

No surprise to those study results. Nothing we didn't basically already know.

We ARE talking about the same country whose citizens were easily fooled by rewording such as "not tor-ture but enhanced inter-rogation", "not civilian cas-ualties but en-emy comb-atants", "not corporate welfare but subsidies" as well as some of the more recent situations of the rich not being held liable for crim-inal acts because they're "suffering from Affluenza".

What country are you talking about? Here in the United States none of the news organizations I listen to ever reworded those topics.

 

[Kuala BangoDango]

No surprise to those study results. Nothing we didn't basically already know.

We ARE talking about the same country whose citizens were easily fooled by rewording such as "not tor-ture but enhanced inter-rogation", "not civilian cas-ualties but en-emy comb-atants", "not corporate welfare but subsidies" as well as some of the more recent situations of the rich not being held liable for crim-inal acts because they're "suffering from Affluenza".

What country are you talking about? Here in the United States none of the news organizations I listen to ever reworded those topics.

I never said the News people changed the terms, though they certainly help push them along. The government (with the help of PR groups or whatnot) changed most of them while lawyers (always willing to throw in confusing terminology to trick people into seeing their way) did some more...such as the "Affluenza" term.

 

[Tumedus]

Those terms do not mean the same thing.

Global warming: the increase in Earth?s average surface temperature due to rising levels of greenhouse gases.

Climate change: a long-term change in the Earth?s climate, or of a region on Earth.

They are interchangeable only insomuch as global Warming is one of the primary causes of man made climate change and therefore both are on topic when discussing the actions we must take to minimize our global warming.

 

[cthulhuspawn82]

People freaking out about the weather is a product of human short-sightedness due to a small life span. They are afraid when things change from "the way they have always been", but they way they have always been in the short life of our species matters little to a 4.5 billion year old planet. The entire history of our species is a footnote in earths history.