Comment on "Florida is a conservative Christian state"
Veneroso@lemmy.world 1 week agoClimate change is the term that the GOP came up with in focus groups before it was “less scary”.
Call it what it is. Global warming.
Comment on "Florida is a conservative Christian state"
Veneroso@lemmy.world 1 week agoClimate change is the term that the GOP came up with in focus groups before it was “less scary”.
Call it what it is. Global warming.
GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
I think global warming as a term is not great, because it fails at communicating the end result of the overall average temperature increase, which is more chaotic weather on account of the increased energy present in the system. Sometimes this will mean temporary local reductions in temperature, and sometimes it will mean unusually cold years in places. Don’t give people the option to use ‘bUt iT’s cOlDeR tHiS yEAr sO hOw cAn gLoBaL wArMiNg bE rEaL’ as an easy argument.
Climate change is the more accurate term, but I do prefer terms that more accurately communicate the severity of the situation, such as the climate crisis, for example.
Kellamity@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Absolutely
Global warming’ gave us that senator with the snowball
In an ideal world we wouldn’t have to moderate accurate terms to prevent bad actors making dumb arguments
But this is clearly not an ideal world