Reddit reviews Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming
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Given that the fossil fuels industry is funding a rather substantial propaganda campaign to convince Americans that they shouldn't limit CO2 emissions, this isn't terribly surprising.
Ah! Those were questions addressed to the original reader of my response to get them thinking. The readers consist of conspiracy theorists and family members/family friends whom the conspiracy theorists CC when they share these articles.
Confirmation bias surely plays a role, as does, in many cases, misinformation, as documented in: http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/denialmachine/ and Hoggan and Littlemore's [Climate Cover-Up] (http://www.amazon.ca/Climate-Cover-Up-Crusade-Global-Warming/dp/1553654854).
John Cook's handbook is great, as is Oreskes and Conway's book (I've actually sent a copy along to one of the conspiracy theorists, not that I'm guessing it'll get read all the way through). I hadn't seen the Naomi Klein article, but I'm definitely going to check it out now. Thanks for passing that along!
> I remember someone stated that Earth has always had periods of warming and cooling.
It was not by accident that you just happened to hear this.
http://www.amazon.com/Climate-Cover-Up-Crusade-Global-Warming/dp/1553654854/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&qid=1347189033&sr=8-14&keywords=climate+change
Back to your question:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/mar/12/previous-temperature-climate-change
More here:
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2004/12/index/
Yes I agree we should grow up and take responsibility for our actions.
That and oil companies thought "climate change" sounded less scary than "global warming" so they pushed in every way they could to rebrand it. The scientific community was the last to embrace that change.
"Global warming" is the specific theory that greenhouse gases added to the atmosphere will increase overall energy in the system and, in turn, increase global temperatures. Since energy companies depend, at least in the short run, on us pumping out lots of greenhouse gases, that's a scary term for them.
"Climate change" sounds more ambiguous and removes the blame from anybody in particular. Heck, it might even be getting colder.
Edit:
For an unbiased source of the difference in meaning between the two words, see NASA
>Global warming: the increase in Earth’s average surface temperature due to rising levels of greenhouse gases.
>Climate change: a long-term change in the Earth’s climate, or of a region on Earth.
For a discussion on how the oil industry, notably Exxon Mobile, pushed hard for the use of the second term over the first term, see this book