Hey, look: “Frank Fleming Edition”! That’s me!
So I had this silly little tweet about how people sort of hedged on global warming by using the phrase “climate change” instead, but it’s not like they’re pretending the problem is something other than warming — we’re not expecting the whole world to get cooler. We’re supposed to be worried about the warming — they just don’t want to keep saying “global warming” because people aren’t seeing that.
Anyway, I thought it was a pretty innocuous throwaway joke, but it got a huge “That’s not funny!” reaction. I guess I never heard the left react to the change from “global warming” to “climate change,” and apparently there is this big amount of global warming denialism out there — that is, denial that the true believers used to use the phrase “global warming” all the time and now only say “climate change.” Oh no, we just remember that wrong. They totally didn’t do this huge hedge by switching the phrase because something about Frank Luntz. Well, my science has been corrected by weiners on the internet. Thanks, weiners.
You know, there is this scientific study I’d like to do. My hypothesis is that there is nothing so dumb that a large segment of the population won’t believe it if said by someone wearing a white lab coat.
“Global weirding” is the phrase I hear most often to shift from the questionability of the warming part. The idea is that you put more energy into a system, it mixes up more, and it’s us putting the energy in. If it turns out that there’s less energy, my guess (hardly a stretch, I’ll admit) is a pivot to something we’re doing is preventing energy from entering, and it’s causing a bad thing to happen. What we were told in the 70’s, y’know. It will always boil down to this, though: Change is happening, it’s bad, we are to blame, and more governmental interference is the only solution.
“You know, there is this scientific study I’d like to do. My hypothesis is that there is nothing so dumb that a large segment of the population won’t believe it if said by someone wearing a white lab coat.”
They did that; it’s called the Milgram experiment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
*sniff* I’m so proud.
Reading the comments on that site just reaffirms my belief that lefties are just horrible people who need to be punched every so often to keep them in line.
As I said in the previous post:
The climate change people are projecting. They think the climate is as sensitive as they are.
“Reading the comments on that site just reaffirms my belief that lefties are just horrible people who need to be punched every so often to keep them in line.”
Typical sentiment from a wife beating, violence loving, knuckle dragging boneheaded male. If you tried that with me, bubba, I’d kick you in your shriveled nuts. Just because you’re too dumb to see that the climate IS changing doesn’t mean that it isn’t changing! Look at Darfur, idiot! Look at the polar bears and the shrinking ice caps at the artica and antiartica!! They’re shrinking because of rightwingnuts and their love of driving humvees which destroys the ozone and allows more cancer causing uv light to get in and warm the planet!! It’s charcoal bricketts in barbecues!! It’s aerosol sprays!! MAN is DESTROYING the PLANET, idiots!!Just because you are denying it doesn’t mean it isn’t so!!!UGH!! Men are SO DUMB!!
I also remember way back when, during the good old Global Warming days, environmentalist libtards would take events as evidence of GW, and if you did the opposite with a cold event, they would respond with, “That’s temperature. GW is climate, you idiot.” Now GW isn’t climate; it causes climate. I guess?!?!? Go figure.
Good work, Frank. You can’t punch all the hippies, but getting them so upset that they bang their own heads in fury is pretty close. Keep at it!
@6 are you for real, or a parody?
@9 – She’s both, jp
“@6 are you for real, or a parody?”
Sure, you’d like me to be a parody, wouldn’t you?? Reduce a woman to comedic insignificance and ignore her, just like a typical male!! Well let me tell you, I didn’t get to be where I am by just giong out with Ben Stiller or making fun of Kiefer Sitherland when he got all rightwingnut on “24” now did I??Mary Lynn Rajskub and I used to laugh at Kiefer when he’d go running after Surnow when Surnow and some other wingnuts who’d visit the set, like Limbaugh (ugh!! ugh!!) or Vince Flynn, would go off to smoke their stinky cigars and get drunk on old whiskey. Oversized boys who never had a clue. And you ask me if I’m REAL?? Say that to my face sometime when I’m doing a set at Mitzi Shore’s place and slicing into poor, almost funny Pauly while I’m onstage, OK?? I DARE you!
So somebody tweeted you with this link:
http://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?r=326
I decided to check on this from archive.org. Seems that page was created 2011, long after they switched from Global Warming to Climate Change:
http://web.archive.org/web/20110201000000*/http://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?r=326
I smell revisionist history.
@9 @10
i think she’s carpenter in drag
Frank, how dare you “mock science” by questioning a scientific theory!
Science is to be swallowed whole…no chewing…or letting it dissolve in your mouth….and never ever question what is written by scientific reporters in the news media.
@11 are you for real, or a parody?
Congrats Frank! You know you are in the big time when you can p!$$ them off that much. As to “global warming” or “climate change” I think it may be the earth trying to kill itself. Since according to the article grass is now contributing to global warming! And although the MSM likes to lament on how much the Arctic ice cap is shrinking you never hear them mention that the Antarctic ice is growing funny thing is that when it is snowing and below zero here in the states it is nice and warn in South America and when it is cold there it is hot here…must be man-made climate change couldn’t possibly be natural weather cycles.
@11 nevermind. I figured out the great Garofalo mystery. No profanity. You’re a parody.
Now that’s funny! ~~~~, mucho ~~~~
“@11 are you for real, or a parody?”
You have a real problem reading for understanding, well that’s understandable for a MAN!!Always rushing and wanting to find out what happens at the end!You’d LIKE me to be a parody, huh? Easy to DISREGARD and REDUCE to INSIGNIFICANCE!! Typical retrograde sexist. Well I’ve worked with Henry Rollins and been on King of The Hill. I took on BOTH Tony Snow AND Dennis Miller and took apart their rightwingnuttery. I’ve done radio and TV and standup. Pretty good for a “parody”. What have YOU done, lately? Oh, that’s right, not so much. Well talk to me when you can get past the “background” wrangler and the secondary craft-services wagon, OK?
@19 thanks for the wiki page update. You’ve already made it clear, though, by your lack of profanity, that you’re a parody.
As for what I’ve done lately, I’ve just had a cup of hot cocoa, and yelled at the dog for barking. She’s a work in progress. Thanks for asking.
“… yelled at the dog for barking. She’s a work in progress.”
Yeah. Probably because you’re too scared to yell at your wife because she’d cut you where you live, so you ABUSE your dog!! Just because I’m NOT cursing, you think I’m fake.Typical bonehead male. Incapable of reaching up past the lowest level.Well just go scratch yourself and pick your teeth with your yellowed fingernail, bubba.It’s the best you can do.Just keep living in denial like a good little wingnut.
Their reaction was as icy as the Ice Age they now predict will result from global warming. Climate change, I mean, climate change.
@21 I wish you good fortune in your impersonation pursuit. Best of luck with your profanity, anger, and bitterness.
Life’s too short to deal with weiners. Huh – I just said short weiners. Appropriate, though, I suppose.
The men in the white lab coats got an entire generation of women to believe that boiled “baby formula” consisting of equal parts water, corn syrup and cow’s milk, served out of a boiled bottle with a boiled nipple, was healthier for infants than non-sterile breast milk. And they then professed to be be confused as to why the incidence of auto-immune diseases and food allergies skyrocketed in the subsequent Baby Boomer generation. It sure wasn’t the fault of (faulty) Science!
It gets people’s hackles up because even though Frank Lutz really did pivot the W administration to using the newer term, there’s always a troll in every discussion board saying that the name change was some sort of nefarious scheme of the ‘warmers’.
There is simply no factual basis whatsoever to the myth “they changed the name from global warming to climate change”.
Except that all the idiots who once called “it” global warming now call “it” climate change.
See, that’s not changing the name, that’s changing what you call it which are 2 different things…DUH
@27 – Except that the idiots who once called it “global cooling” started calling it “global warming” before they called it “climate change”.
I call it “weather”.