Of course, if they actually paid attention, they’d know the words meant the same thing:
Americans are more concerned about the changing planet when the words “global warming” are used than when they hear “climate change,” new research finds.
The two terms are often used synonymously, but new surveys reveal that they carry different connotations for many people, particularly African Americans, Hispanic Americans, liberals and people between the ages of 31 and 48. Republicans see the two terms as more or less equivalent, but Democrats, political independents, liberals and moderates are more likely to express concern about “global warming” than “climate change.”
“The studies found that the two terms are often not synonymous — they mean different things to different people — and activate different sets of beliefs, feelings and behaviors, as well as different degrees of urgency about the need to respond,” the researchers wrote in a report released today (May 27)
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Fifteen percent of Americans reported feeling “very worried” about global warming, versus 9 percent about climate change, and 38 percent reported feeling that global warming would harm them, compared with 30 percent who felt personally threatened by climate change. Twenty-nine percent would take action against “global warming,” compared with 23 percent who would fight “climate change.”
What say we slap a carbon tax on the oil companies next week? The week after that we nationalize them. Then the following week we begin to phase them out in favor of renewable energy sources. We’d better not put Obama in charge of the phasing out part though. It would take him a hundred years if his getting out of Afghanistan is any indication of his abilities. We must stop burning shit.
For us in the US “global warming” is scary. For Europe – UK especially – the gulf stream keeps their winter weather from ice age temperatures. So warming is not their concern but freezing. For those on islands in the Pacific it is the ocean levels rising and swamping their island and then covering it. People need to be taught that it is going to be different depending on where you are.
Ultimately we will face another ice age here. We will cut down all the trees and that will make it worse for us.
The foe is CAPITALISM that is sawing off the limb it is sitting on. It CAN’T STOP! Capitalism is unfixable, irreversible and how to get that thru heads is a serious problem.
Cody Wilson has it nailed. With his 3-D gun, which is not about the gun. If he had just open sourced a coffee maker to download and print out, no one would care. But a fuggin GUN! NOw that has the govts attention.That was the only piece of gun legislation congress passed in its last session before recess. The 3-D gun part cannot be transported on a plane, etc. Ho hum.
Now Wilson is ramming them on BitCoin and this boy understands Foucault and Baudrillard, SPECTACLE and all the rest of the Continental stuff our profs don’t really get except in sound bites. So their students never really get it either. Go research him Susie.
I see you are not paying any attention to my gluten free advice. Lead a horse to water but………….