While it may be hard to believe, the Trudeau government and the CBC have concluded the language they currently use to describe climate change hasn’t been apocalyptic enough.
So now, Environment Minister Catherine McKenna and the state-funded public broadcaster will be using the term “climate emergency” in place of climate change.
McKenna included the phrase in a recent Liberal motion before Parliament to declare Canada “is in a national climate emergency,” as did NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh.
According to the U.K.’s Guardian newspaper — which recently updated its style guide, replacing “climate change” with preferred terms, “climate emergency, crisis or breakdown” and “global warming” with “global heating” — the CBC is doing the same.
The Guardian reported that after its changes to its style guide, “Senior CBC management told staff they were able to use the terms ‘climate crisis’ and ‘climate emergency’ when covering the wide-ranging impacts of temperature rises around the world.”
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CBC News standards editor Paul Hambleton said:
“Neutrality is an important principle in our journalism. We recognize that ‘climate crisis’ and ‘climate emergency’ are increasingly common expressions in debates over what to do about global warming. ‘Climate change; and ‘global warming’ offer a neutral starting point for that debate, but as with all our journalistic decisions, context matters.”
Nonsense. If neutrality, context, and accuracy, were important, politicians and media, would never use “climate change” in the context they are today.
No one disputes the climate is changing.
The issue is “anthropogenic” or “man-made” climate change, or what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau would call “people-made” climate change.
That is, the impact that rising man-made industrial greenhouse gas emissions have had on natural climate change for the past 150 years, which most climate scientists have concluded is now causing abnormal warming of the planet.
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Similarly, the term “climate denier” — to which McKenna has added a new twist, “gender climate denier,” meaning someone who does not accept that anthropogenic climate change disproportionately impacts women — is neither accurate nor neutral.
For one thing, many politicians, environmentalists, climate scientists and journalists who use it acknowledge they mean to equate climate denial with Holocaust denial, which is simultaneously disgusting, sleazy, absurd and inaccurate.
Again, no one denies there’s a climate or that it’s changing.
Skepticism about the widely accepted scientific theory that human activities are influencing the climate, or that another tax will resolve it, is not the same as advocating the extermination of 6 million Jews, along with 6 million other innocent victims in the Holocaust.
That this even has to be said shows how far from reality the public discussion of this issue has strayed.
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The irony is that constantly escalating the doomsday rhetoric about this issue is doomed to fail.
For example, the U.K.’s Institute for Public Policy Research, a progressive think-tank, concluded 13 years ago after a major study of how the media, politicians and environmental groups communicate about climate change, that the doomsday rhetoric was backfiring.
As Simon Retallack writing in, appropriately, the Guardian in 2006 noted:
“The alarmist language widely used to discuss climate change is likely to be having a counter-productive effect … tantamount to ‘climate porn,’ by offering a terrifying and perhaps secretly thrilling spectacle, but ultimately making the issue appears unreal and distancing the public from the problem … It contains an implicit counsel of despair that the problem is ‘just too big for us to take on.’ Its sensationalism … distances people from the issue.”
Read more at Toronto Sun
I am confident that Climate Barbie’s days are numbered.
This October’s election should put an end to the Liberal eco-terrorist perpetration and perpetuation of “people-made climate crisis”.
The M.S. Media are always using certian words to stir up the American Public like Gunned Down Assualt Rifle Etc its just changing t he words to make it sound more scary and stir up the public this is one of the reasons the American People no longer trusts those lying liberal journalists
I live in a border state, and have traveled extensively throughout Canada, I have visited all but two of the Canadian provinces and one territory. I have nothing but the greatest fondness for the folks I have met from Vancouver Island in the west to Prince Edward Island in the east—except for now. To all my Canadian friends I say this: Wake up and vote these radical bums out of office. There is no “climate emergency”. In the words of Christiana Figueres, former head of the United Nation climate crusade, “The climate change effort has nothing to do with climate. It’s all about redistributing the world’s wealth and the destruction of capitalism.”
I sincerely hope Canada doesn’t go 100 per cent socialist and join the other socialist countries such as North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, and the Peoples Republic of Congo, all of which are among the poorest nations on this Earth. Wise up, Canada. Vote the socialist panic mongers out.
Climate stupidity by demonicrats would be a better term
As I was reading this I was thinking the same as the Simon Retallack quote. Using scarier and scarier terms like “Climate Emergency” will convince more people that it is all a bunch of bullcrap. All they have to do is look at what the weather has been for the last decade and see no changes to even begin to justify such scary terms. So they will discount further and further anything to do with climate change and decide the only emergency is that the elites are not convincing us to destroy our economies and give up our freedoms.
Couldn’t agree more. As the climate alarmist loosens up their language, even the average person can notice their nonsense.
The Eco_Freaks always pulling of dramatic little protests i sawa picture one show some of these idiots in scuba masks and carrying sign MELTING ICECAPS and always notice how those who are the leaders of these idiotic protests are liberal Hollywood Celeberties and Polticians who all live in big fancy homes fly around in their Private Jets drive around in their gas guzzling 7 MPG Limos and sail all over the globe in their yachts and none of them has Solar Panels on their homes
Emergency? Ha! Free air conditioning is more like it. Canada has a surplus of cool clean air, and we’re dumping it on the American Midwest.
Let’s see global cooling became global warming became climate change became climate emergency . Whats next extreme climate emergency followed by a toddler level foot stamp and a heart felt primal scream ?
What is the matter with these people ?
Unless you adopted the scary planet racket as your religion the public sees serial bullshit artists flogging an increasingly non nonsensical proposition that if we only revert to cave dwellers we are somehow going to save the planet while setting a temperature happy place .
Mr. Dress Up and the scary climate spokesperson are going to be collecting underemployment in 6 months wondering what the F they missed .
The CBC is tongue polishing Mr Dress up tasteful shoes because he owns them . When the boss says the earth has a fever or it’s having a climate emergency you know what sand box he is in and you better play in it .
Canada’s deficits have soared with the Liberals as expected dumping 10 ‘[s of $ billions of debt on future generations . All from a guy who claims budgets balance themselves .
Climate emergency.. what a sad joke . Wait till the younger people figure out how these clowns screwed them .
Let’s see global cooling became global warming became climate change became climate emergency . Whats next extreme climate emergency followed by a toddler level foot stamp and a heart felt primal scream ?
What is the matter with these people ?
Unless you adopted the scary planet racket as your religion the public sees serial bullshit artists flogging an increasingly non nonsensical proposition that if we only revert to cave dwellers we are somehow going to save the planet while setting a temperature happy place .
Mr. Dress Up and the scary climate spokesperson are going to be collecting underemployment in 6 months wondering what the F they missed .
The CBC is tongue polishing Mr Dress up tasteful shoes because he owns them . When the boss says the earth has a fever or it’s having a climate emergency you know what sand box he is in and you better play in it .
Canada’s deficits have soared with the Liberals as expected dumping 10 ‘[s of $ billions of debt on future generations . All from a guy who claims budgets balance themselves .
Climate emergency.. what a sad joke . Wait till the younger people figure out how these clowns screwed them .