Words, just words

One of the problems we on the left often face is that we assume that most Americans are like most of us--when ninety some odd percent of scientists tell us the planet is getting warmer, we believe them.  Even if you're like me and not particularly adept at science, you respect and trust their years of schooling and the years of research they have conducted.

Alas, most Americans stood on their front porches this past week and watched feet of snow fall and temperatures in the negative teens, and thought to themselves, "What the fuck--global warming?"

There are no reams of weather related statistics or piles of climate change reports in scientific journals that are going to convince most of the non-believers (or most Americans for that matter) that this week's polar ice cap-like weather is proof that global warming exists.  Most Americans are just too literal.

My suggestion?  Stop calling it gobal warming or climate change and call it "global weather chaos."

That's a term that most Americans could look out their front window after the numerous weather related phenomena we see over the course of a year and proclaim to themselves, "Damn right to that!"

Peace,
emaycee