As recently noted in our analysis of the MIT Technology Review Propaganda issue, proponents of urgent intergovernmental action (the UN picking your pockets) are getting increasingly hysterical in their actions and language as reality fails to match their predictions, and the Manchester (UK) Guardian, known fondly by friends and foes as “The Grauniad,” is no exception.
H/T Watts Up With That for the story and perfect illustration of their absurdity – These quotes from the Guardian’s own pages:
The Guardian has updated its style guide to introduce terms that more accurately describe the environmental crises facing the world.
“We want to ensure that we are being scientifically precise, while also communicating clearly with readers on this very important issue,” said the editor-in-chief, Katharine Viner. “The phrase ‘climate change’, for example, sounds rather passive and gentle when what scientists are talking about is a catastrophe for humanity.”
“Increasingly, climate scientists and [organizations] from the UN to the Met Office are changing their terminology, and using stronger language to describe the situation we’re in,” she said.
Instead of “climate change” the preferred terms are “climate emergency, crisis or breakdown” and “global heating” is [favored] over “global warming”, although the original terms are not banned.
Other terms that have been updated, including the use of “wildlife” rather than “biodiversity”, “fish populations” instead of “fish stocks” and “climate science denier” rather than “climate sceptic”.
The update to the Guardian’s style guide follows the addition of the global carbon dioxide level to the Guardian’s daily weather pages. “Levels of CO2 in the atmosphere have risen so dramatically – including a measure of that in our daily weather report is symbolic of what human activity is doing to our climate,” said Viner in April. “People need reminding that the climate crisis is no longer a future problem – we need to tackle it now, and every day matters.”
Gosh! She’s quite the harpy, isn’t she?
Luckily, cartoonist Josh provides comic relief:
