GLOBAL WARMING HAS SUDDENLY BECOME "CLIMATE CHANGE"

Neil Craig notes: "Regarding climate change: Have you noticed that all the environmental movement has gone from using the phrase 'global warming' to using the phrase "climate change"?

One is a statically verifiable phenomenon and the other is a nebulous phrase that can be applied to any possible weather circumstances: Hurricane and tornados ('climate change'), drought (must be climate change), warm winters (must be climate change), cold winters (has to be that nasty climate change thing), etc etc.... As I understand it, both sides of the global warming debate agree that the average global temperature had increased from long term averages about 1 degree.

The debate centers first on whether not the metric of an average global temp (averaging all the temperatures from spots all over the globe) is really a meaningful statistic. I've heard one expert say that the averaging global temperatures is about as meaningful as averaging all the phone numbers in the phone book.

Secondly, everybody disagrees on whether or not this increase (if it really is an increase) is due to human activity or sunspots or normal cyclic fluctuations or whatever, and whether or not humans can influence or reverse the trend.... The most interesting thing is that the increase in the global temp average since 2002 (has been) without the help of the Kyoto protocols or any other radical green legislation. And at the same time green lobbies start talking about climate change instead of global warming.

Could it be that global warming is turning out to be big false scare, and the greens want to keep themselves in the forefront of the public attention. Blaming all weather everywhere on 'climate change' is a little too convenient, and it is of course assumed that any 'climate change' is automatically the result of human industrial activity...

Since most greens are actually red underneath (Marxists who want to see free market capitalism destroyed), blaming the weather on human industrial activity is a very easy strategy to try to justify government takeover of huge chunks of the economy.... The phrase climate change is just a symptom of this near-conspiracy."
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(This commentary was forwarded to us by S. Calif. Guest Editor W. H. ......)