Why the name change from Global Warming to Climate Change?..Liberals what say you?

Global warming/climate change has just become a new religious cult based in greedy power grabbing and hopes of world domination through "climate legislation". In the past it was the religious zealots who burned the truth telling scientists at the stake today it is climate change political zealots trying to silence the truth tellers and sell the world some very expensive SNAKE OIL.

It seems global warming advocates are determined to turn logic and biology upside down. Anyone who remebers basic high school biology knows carbon dioxide is essential to plant life as oxygen is essential to human life. These two basic facts can't be separated. Only Obama-style liberals will attempt to convince us about how critical combating global warming is to the Earth's survival. As then Sen. Hillary Clinton said to Gen. David Petreaus, we must be "...willing to suspend all disbelief." I'm not willing to do so!

Global warming, or climate change, which ever they decide to call it this year, is not based on science at all. it's all based on the consensus of a few scientist who have something to gain by furthering this farce. Guess what that is? $$$$

Anyone who believes Carbon Dioxide is a pollutant should stop breathing. Since we exhale Carbon Dioxide in every breath, we are literally polluting the atmosphere. So stop breathing and reduce your carbon footprint, or say NO to cap and trade & the whole global warming hoax.

We can't project an accurate forecast a week in advance and yet we say that we're doomed in the future? I believe in eliminating waste and keeping things clean so that I, and my family, can safely enjoy the outdoors but I also know where the comforts of life come from and that is manufacturing that uses energy and supplies that are either grown or mined somehow. Follow the research grants and see what is being pushed.

I have a simple question I would like someone to answer for me, If the specific gravity (relative density) of air is 1.00 and the specific gravity (relative density) of CO2 is 1.5189, that means CO2 is heavier than air and settles on the Earth's surface where green plants need it. How then can CO2 be in the Earth's upper atmosphere and stratosphere trapping the Sun's rays and heating up the planet? Anybody? Anybody? Hello? That's what I thought.

Here is a small sample of the side of the debate we almost never hear:

Appearing before the Commons Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development last year, Carleton University paleoclimatologist Professor Tim Patterson testified, "There is no meaningful correlation between CO2 levels and Earth's temperature over this [geologic] time frame. In fact, when CO2 levels were over ten times higher than they are now, about 450 million years ago, the planet was in the depths of the absolute coldest period in the last half billion years." Patterson asked the committee, "On the basis of this evidence, how could anyone still believe that the recent relatively small increase in CO2 levels would be the major cause of the past century's modest warming?"

Neither has been proved, but "climate change" is so vague it is hard to disprove, yet sounds threathening, like we need to do something about whatever it might be.

This is ideal - when it gets colder they can say "Colder? That's because of Climate Change!" The same goes for Hotter, Wetter, Drier, whatever the weather happens to be doing in your neck of the woods.

The important thing is to maintain the fear so the peoples of the World will sign up for a legal framework to administer Carbon taxes globally - thats essential for a "Cap and Trade" system to work, but more importantly is a requirement for making a World Government legal. The World Government will be faier and democratic - One Country one vote! Mugabe and Obama will have the same voting power - ain't that great? Bear in mind that the recipients of unearned aid are more than likely to vote for it.

They changed it cause it was clouding the issue. It's not just about warming up, it's about cooling down to. The planet as a whole is warming, but due to this, there are DRASTIC changes in weather. Where it was cold, it's not hot, where it was hot, it's now cold. Where is was super hot, it's now "I just had a stroke hot" and where it was freezing cold, it's now "my hand feel off from frostbite cold"

It's not just heat, it's everything. The phrase global warming just confused rednecks and gave republican an easy response "It's actually cold, wheres global warming? You guys lied! I knew it!"

And theres the always popular "We could use global warming, its freakin cold here!"

By changing it to climate change, its a bit more accurate but doesn't stress the urgency. Seriously, from fall to winter is a CLIMATE CHANGE. Another bone head move.

the scientists who said about warming will not put their stamp or signature to what they said, not that they are backing out of what they said but they just refuse to be quoted. Without that verification we can't call it global warming anymore.

global warming as I understood it meant a lot of ice at the north pole was melting, and it surely is and trade routes for ships have been started there for Russia and China, and some parts of Alaska and some islands are now being flooded out because of the melting, but a couple of scientists say now that ice is also being made down under the sea so they can't now say it's only global warming they can only say it's climate change.

There Is No Proof Of Human interaction Causing Global Warming,Al Gore And his money Hungry Henchmen Are the biggest liar's of this Century,U.S.G.S. Ice core Sample's Have PROVEN that We Are In a state of flux Between One Moderate Temperature To another,It's HISTORY,Remember reading about The DARK AGE'S? It Was REALLY Dark,And We Had A Little ice Age then,it's in The history book's,It SURE isn't Coming out of the Mouth of Liar's Like al Gore,The Money to Be Made from Modifying Our Car's Train's power Plant's Etc,Is Enormous,THAT Is What the "Global Warming" Crap is About,Now,,Human's ARE pollutuing The Planet at An Astronomical Rate that Is Unsustainablele,In 300 Year's The human Population Had Better Have Perfected Synthetic Food,because you Won't be able to grow It,and if It Swim's or fly's Outside,You Won't be able To Eat It,Now THAt Is a Fact, The Talk Of The Polar ice cap Melting,The SOUTHERN Ice Cap Is GROWING!!!I Volunteer We Eat My Ex-Inlaw's First when Everyone run's out of Food.

Big government needs a new income stream.

Big Business,such as GE, needs CO2 scrubbers to make Billions(Trillions?) more money for their bonuses.

Al Gore needs more hysteria to sell more books

The Commies need bigger government to better control 'the people'.

The Liberals need a better excuse to thin down the Earths population.

It is crucial that scientists are factually accurate when they do speak out, that they ignore media hype and maintain a clinical detachment from social or other agendas. There are facts and data that are ignored in the maelstrom of social and economic agendas swirling about Copenhagen.

Greenhouse gases and their effects are well-known. Here are some of things we know:

• The most effective greenhouse gas is water vapor, comprising approximately 95 percent of the total greenhouse effect.

• Carbon dioxide concentration has been continually rising for nearly 100 years. It continues to rise, but carbon dioxide concentrations at present are near the lowest in geologic history.

• Temperature change correlation with carbon dioxide levels is not statistically significant.

• There are no data that definitively relate carbon dioxide levels to temperature changes.

• The greenhouse effect of carbon dioxide logarithmically declines with increasing concentration. At present levels, any additional carbon dioxide can have very little effect.

We also know a lot about Earth temperature changes:

• Global temperature changes naturally all of the time, in both directions and at many scales of intensity.

• The warmest year in the U.S. in the last century was 1934, not 1998. The U.S. has the best and most extensive temperature records in the world.

• Global temperature peaked in 1998 on the current 60-80 year cycle, and has been episodically declining ever since. This cooling absolutely falsifies claims that human carbon dioxide emissions are a controlling factor in Earth temperature.

• Voluminous historic records demonstrate the Medieval Climate Optimum (MCO) was real and that the “hockey stick” graphic that attempted to deny that fact was at best bad science. The MCO was considerably warmer than the end of the 20th century.

• During the last 100 years, temperature has both risen and fallen, including the present cooling. All the changes in temperature of the last 100 years are in normal historic ranges, both in absolute value and, most importantly, rate of change.

Contrary to many public statements:

• Effects of temperature change are absolutely independent of the cause of the temperature change.

• Global hurricane, cyclonic and major storm activity is near 30-year lows. Any increase in cost of damages by storms is a product of increasing population density in vulnerable areas such as along the shores and property value inflation, not due to any increase in frequency or severity of storms.

• Polar bears have survived and thrived over periods of extreme cold and extreme warmth over hundreds of thousands of years — extremes far in excess of modern temperature changes.

• The 2009 minimum Arctic ice extent was significantly larger than the previous two years. The 2009 Antarctic maximum ice extent was significantly above the 30-year average. There are only 30 years of records.

• Rate and magnitude of sea level changes observed during the last 100 years are within normal historical ranges. Current sea level rise is tiny and, at most, justifies a prediction of perhaps ten centimeters rise in this century.

The present climate debate is a classic conflict between data and computer programs. The computer programs are the source of concern over climate change and global warming, not the data. Data are measurements. Computer programs are artificial constructs.

Public announcements use a great deal of hyperbole and inflammatory language. For instance, the word “ever” is misused by media and in public pronouncements alike. It does not mean “in the last 20 years,“ or “the last 70 years.” “Ever” means the last 4.5 billion years.

For example, some argue that the Arctic is melting, with the warmest-ever temperatures. One should ask, “How long is ever?” The answer is since 1979. And then ask, “Is it still warming?” The answer is unequivocally “No.” Earth temperatures are cooling. Similarly, the word “unprecedented” cannot be legitimately used to describe any climate change in the last 8,000 years.

There is not an unlimited supply of liquid fuels. At some point, sooner or later, global oil production will decline, and transportation costs will become insurmountable if we do not develop alternative energy sources. However, those alternative energy sources do not now exist.

A legislated reduction in energy use or significant increase in cost will severely harm the global economy and force a reduction in the standard of living in the United States. It is time we spent the research dollars to invent an order-of-magnitude better solar converter and an order-of-magnitude better battery. Once we learn how to store electrical energy, we can electrify transportation. But these are separate issues. Energy conversion is not related to climate change science.

I have been a reviewer of the last two IPCC reports, one of the several thousand scientists who purportedly are supporters of the IP

An addendum to answers by John W and Sci about Frank Luntz. In Wikipedia [1](I know it isn't considered the most reputable of sources, but I add this for what it's worth), it is said that

"Luntz' specialty is 'testing language and finding words that will help his clients sell their product or turn public opinion on an issue or a candidate.'" (a spin doctor, in other words) [2]

and

"it was his [Luntz's] idea that [BUSH!!!] administration communications reframe "global warming" as "climate change" since "climate change" was thought to sound less severe. Luntz has since said that he is not responsible for what the administration has done since that time [someone by the name of Eichmann said something like that once]. Though he now believes humans have contributed to global warming, he maintains that the science was in fact incomplete, and his recommendation sound, at the time he made it." [3]

I like that "he maintains that the science was...incomplete." He has a bachelors degree in history, and Ph. D. in political science - hardly convincing credentials for speaking on climate science issues!

I cite all my sources below.

Amazing how deniers have no interest in facts, but are quick to jump on minor points of wording.

Please? For gods sake will you ever learn anything?

Climate will change due to Global Warming. That was the simple explanation, You got it? If no follow me;

Global Warming is a slight increase in temperature that may be due to human activity such as burning fossil fuels and deforestation. (that's what most S-C-I-E-N-T-I-S-T-S agree with ).

This increase in temperature (globally), can cause disturbances in the climate, like if it gets hotter there might be more hurricanes, more precipitation, meaning, more floods, more SNOOOW, (yes snow is frozen rain, yey), Global Warming won't "end" winter that's impossible, the only way to end winter would be by making the earth stop rotating around it's star (sun).

Just let me tell you this; Climate, Climate Change, Weather, and Global Warming are related, but not the SAME!

Put that in your head!

Climate is like the average weather of an area for a long period of time. Like the climate in the Amazon Jungle is tropical, the Climate in Las Vegas, NV is Arid, that's climate! Climate change would be a..... Yes! That's right, a change in the climate! Like the Amazon Jungle becoming a desert, or the Sahara becoming a jungle.

Weather is what's going on right now or maybe tomorrow, after tomorrow. next week, but an rain in the desert but it'll still be a desert : D Yeeees!

And Global Warming (may I say it again) will change the Climate, that we're used to, which may mean, that what grows here now, may not grow in ten years. Which means, your food is getting more expensive.

The Climate of where you live now may not be as pleasent as it is today, which means your house will not be worth as much as it is today.

It's very easy to deny something, but it requires thought to accept it.

Is Global Warming being caused by us? There's no proof! There's only Evidence. But there's no proof that it isn't being caused by us either!

Is an ounce of prevention worth a pound of cure?

I think it is!

Are parachute makers conspiring against us to make money? Is Impact death a "Hoax"?

So are Scuba Diving Schools Conspiring against you when they give you an oxygen tank and a scuba set? Drowning is a "Hoax"?

Seat Belts? Volvo is conspiring against us?

Bulletproof vests? You can't die from getting shot at! It's a "Hoax" Don't buy bulletproof vests

Everything is a "Hoax"!

That logic doesn't make sense to me! Sorry!