The U.K. Guardian newspaper has for months been working to change the words we use to discuss climate and environmental issues.
They just published their glossary.
Prominent on the list is The Guardian’s formal adoption of the pejorative term “denier” and the elimination of the word “skeptic” to describe people attempting to correct the record on climate.
In the pages of The Guardian, if you have the temerity to point out that sea level has risen a scant 1-3 mm per year since before the industrial revolution, that measurements reveal climate computer models run too hot, that a weather event is historically normal, that intermittent wind and solar are inefficient, or that polar bears are thriving up north, you deserve to be lumped in with “holocaust deniers.”
Deniers? Talk about speech as hate!
Guardian Editor-in-chief Katharine Viner said:
We want to ensure that we are being scientifically precise, while also communicating clearly with readers on this very important issue. These are the guidelines provided to our journalists and editors to be used in the production of all environment coverage across the Guardian’s website and paper:
1.) “climate emergency” or “climate crisis” to be used instead of “climate change”
2.) “climate science denier” or “climate denier” to be used instead of “climate sceptic”
3.) Use “global heating” not “global warming”
4.) “greenhouse gas emissions” is preferred to “carbon emissions” or “carbon dioxide emissions”
5.) Use “wildlife”, not “biodiversity”
6.) Use “fish populations” instead of “fish stocks”
Didn’t climate campaigners just get done insisting we all substitute “climate change” in place of “global warming” to divert attention from all those inconvenient satellites and thermometers recording less warming than they were supposed to?
Paul Chadwick, The Guardian’s readers’ editor, wrote in June:
I support Viner’s direction of travel. She is harnessing the power of language usage to focus minds on an urgent global issue. One challenge for the Guardian and the Observer will be to weigh, in specific journalistic contexts, two sometimes competing aspects of terminology used in public debates: language as description, and language as exhortation.
CFACT analyst Peter Murphy posted a warning about media complicity in attempts to stifle the global warming debate at CFACT.org:
This is dangerous, and it goes beyond climate issues. It’s bad enough for global warming activists and groups to attempt to silence opposition. A more problematic trend is when it comes from the media itself.
Murphy shared some prominent examples:
- Chuck Todd, host of the NBC program Meet the Press announced last January he will never have as a guest anyone who questions or challenges global warming.
- The Los Angeles Times and the magazine Popular Science announced they would no longer publish opposing opinions to global warming orthodoxy.
- During CNN’s “Town Hall” on climate change with Democratic presidential hopefuls last August, moderators walked in lockstep with the doomsday scenario espoused by the candidates without critical examination.
- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., advocated that climate “deniers” be jailed for exercising their free speech rights if they oppose his extreme view of climate change.
George Orwell wrote powerfully about the alteration of language to enforce orthodoxy and censor thought in his masterpiece 1984.
He postulated a language called “Newspeak” that was designed to weed all that troublesome questioning of authority out of the English language.
The novel’s appendix explains that:
The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of Ingsoc (English Socialism) but to make all other modes of thought impossible.
It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought — that is, a thought diverging from the principles of Ingsoc — should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words.
We again remind Chuck Todd, the Guardian and the rest, that Orwell wrote 1984 as a warning, not an instruction manual.
Read more at CFACT
He who controls language controls thought. They are fascists.
So his spoiled little Kennedy Brat Robert Kennedy Jr would jail Thought Crinimal’ The Nazis Broadcasting Company the Lying Peacock News,wont allow for the opposing view the L.A. Pravda and Popular Junk Science will not allow for opposing views the DNC and the Communists News Network walk in lockstep with the Globalists it looks like consperacy to me to hide the truth its all what Big Brother wants why else do they want Trump out so they can install one of their own fellow Globalists
If Katherine Viner speaks from any anticipation of emulating the great Winston Churchhill as it relates to wielding language in order to mobilize a population, she is hopelessly off the mark. You can try to skew the words and composed canned expressions to promote your twisted ideology, but dispense with any notion that we who stand in opposition to your platform, reject the global warming campaign and completely reject the premise of human-cause climate change will alter our stance in any way. You won’t scare, penalize, fool, antimidate or otherwise bamboozle the defenders of truth in science to that they will back away from this issue. We are here to stop global warming nonsense, perhaps not in its tracks, but certainly before it imposes negative influences on our lives and destroys our society.
This sort of stuff is absolutely mind boggling and coming from a national “news” paper. This cult of Alarmist Catastrophic Climate Change really confirms their intentions to be no less than the destruction of the Capitalistic state of most of the World and the degradation to a Socialist model.
We, who reject this cult and their use of Alarmist Catastrophic Climate Change to gain this totally misguided end, knew this from the start of this “hockey stick” farce dreamed up by Mr. Mann which has been shown for the fraud that this graph was and sums up the fraudulent intent of this current Cult.
History will record this mammoth attempt to defraud the values of Western society and when the dust has settled on this fraud perpetrated by this Alarmist Catastrophic Climate Change, heads will roll at the Guardian.
In the meantime, keep up the good work exposing this existential threat to commons sense, truth, science and the development of those billions in utter poverty on this planet of ours.
Kennedy once tried to grab the microphone from a woman reporter questioning him about this own Hypocricy she pulled it out of his reach he also belongs to one of those stupid Eco-Freak groups who filed two lawsuit against Poultry and Pork Farmers they lost both lawsuits this stupid group is the WATER KEEPERS ALLIANCE he is just one of those spoiled little Kennedy Brats
Who cares what the Guardian says . They are a propaganda tool
of the scary global warming industry .
No balance just years of hysteria .
They must have invested their pension funds in wind mills and other tax dependent industries .
The more they whine the less the credibility .
They are a massive consumer of trees .
Can someone please direct my attention to the crisis? We have traveled quite a bit around Australia and everything pretty much looks the same. Remember ever since Captain Arthur Philip, who let the First Fleet to our shores,+ recorded in his journal about extreme heat and drought in Australia’s first settlement in the late 1790’s. Our weather runs in cycles and always has, were is our crisis, except in the heads of the power hungry, moronic Marxists who are pushing their barrow?
And they wonder why traditional media is dying a slow death.
It’s not just ‘climate’ where words are being changed. In California, what used to called ‘grand theft auto’ (the crime, not the ‘game’) – is now referred to as “Using a vehicle without the owner’s consent”.
I guess that the actual ‘crime’ now is – ‘Not asking for permission to steal a vehicle.’ I’m reminded of the song lyric, “How low can you go?”
People are not going to pay for propaganda . The global warming crime syndicate has lied itself out of runway and those remaining ‘believers are cult followers who like to be scared or fleece people more . The sun runs the show and we are all along for the ride while it lasts . Any global warming sure beats global cooling
the 1970’ ghoulish threat backed by the scientific community too .
The Guardian has thus defined itself as a fake news source.