A climate scientist writing at Salon laments that conservatives don’t understand why our planet is in danger. Why? Because climate scientists use difficult to understand science words instead of simple phrases like Greta does.

You see, using well-established science words to discuss big bad climate change somehow isn’t transforming into action very well. It seems that a lot of the language used doesn’t do a very good job of helping link the research into action that gets results. Unless you are Greta Thunberg that is. 

“As a professor and researcher working on climate change, the security threats it presents and how people both understand the dangers and pose political responses, it has become clear to me that the language being used about climate action is often seriously misleading.

Thunberg’s success is due in part to the fact that she’s had a substantial impact over how people relate to climate issues. By her actions, as well as her simple and very direct speeches, she’s called out numerous politicians whose failure to act endangers her future. She neatly inverts the usual cultural assumption that the adults should educate children.”

Simon Dalby tells us that the NEW narrative must use the word “FIRE!” because Greta says so.

“Choosing the right figure of speech is important in any communication, and Thunberg’s focus on the simple point about our house being on fire is key. Forest fires are getting attention around the world, including recent blazes in Indonesia and Brazil. The damage being done by climate change-fuelled fires fits simply into her narrative.

Unlike warfare and images of climate struggles that are only sometimes effective in getting attention, Thunberg focuses on something that much more obviously relates to everyday life and the dangers to it: Not only is our house on fire, but the fire department has vanished.”

The apocalyptic language regarding climate change isn’t new. I vividly remember being told that the earth was going to suffer once the hole in the ozone layer actually showed up. I also remember dire warnings of acid rain that would destroy our crops thus ensuring everyone on the planet would starve to death. That was forty years ago. Yet somehow we are still here and the planet is still intact.

But now we have AOC’s Green New Deal resolution telling us that we have only eighteen years or less to live.

One of Ocasio-Cortez's constituents loses her mind over climate change during AOC's townhall, claims we only have a few months left: "We got to start eating babies! We don't have enough time! … We have to get rid of the babies! … We need to eat the babies!" pic.twitter.com/uVmOnboluI

— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) October 3, 2019

Yes, it turns out that the person in the video was a loon from the kooky Lyndon LaRouche tinfoil hat crowd. The problem is, THERE ARE PEOPLE out there who actually proposed that as an idea! The problem is, AOC didn’t actually disavow, then or later, what the prankster actually said! The problem is, there are people out there who are dealing with full blown depression and anxiety because we have politicians like AOC, so-called scientists like Simon Dalby, and teen scold Greta Thunberg telling us we will die from climate change.

Then again, climate alarmists screaming at the sky have a history of running with information (real or not) that will help their doomsday narrative. Via Maggie’s Farm I found this report from 2004. “Now the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us.” The article is an entertaining read involving much clutching of pearls. Except that the report was a table-top exercise planning for the very worst pie-in-the-sky scenarios. Result? We’ll be invaded by Martians first before our planet dies from climate whatever. 

Never mind. It’s far better to use doom and gloom words to generate fear and action. Supposedly conservatives, like myself, who sneer at all this climate change/global warming/earth is going to die crap, are just angry at Greta for showing us that strikes can make a difference.

Oh really? You mean strikes like this one using non-environmentally friendly red die and a diesel truck?

Which was then set to music.

This Extinction Rebellion stunt is much better with the sound on… pic.twitter.com/axWjK0HJhL

— Julia Hartley-Brewer (@JuliaHB1) October 3, 2019

The climate change activist gurus want to convince us that planetary death is imminent. They do so while advocating for socialistic policies that would actually destroy the world economy. They do so while propping up a sixteen year old as their climate change savior.

Child idol worship is gross pic.twitter.com/taB68FqXPF

— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) October 5, 2019

Incredibly gross.

Climate activist scolds aren’t supposed to use difficult sciency words to describe the climate danger we are supposedly in. Fine with me given that the ‘science’ used contains a boatload rubbish.

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