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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsScientists consider new names for climate change
Yes, it's Borowitz.
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/scientists-consider-new-names-for-climate-change
After a report from the Yale Center on Climate Change Communication showed that the term climate change elicits relatively little concern from the American public, leading scientists are recommending replacing it with a new term: You will be burnt to a crisp and die.
Other terms under consideration by the scientists include your cities will be ravaged by tsunamis and floods and earth will be a fiery hellhole incapable of supporting human life.
Scientists were generally supportive of the suggestions, with many favoring the term your future will involve rowing a boat down a river of rotting corpses.
Any of these terms would do a better job conveying the urgency of the problem, Tracy Klugian, a spokesperson for the newly renamed Yale Center for Oh My God Wake Up You Assholes, said.
Other terms under consideration by the scientists include your cities will be ravaged by tsunamis and floods and earth will be a fiery hellhole incapable of supporting human life.
Scientists were generally supportive of the suggestions, with many favoring the term your future will involve rowing a boat down a river of rotting corpses.
Any of these terms would do a better job conveying the urgency of the problem, Tracy Klugian, a spokesperson for the newly renamed Yale Center for Oh My God Wake Up You Assholes, said.
Why does this man not have a TV show?
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Scientists consider new names for climate change (Original Post)
KamaAina
Sep 2014
OP
Climate catastrophe? Climate disruption? Climate apocalypse? Kick the deniers in the nuts with truth
Fred Sanders
Sep 2014
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dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)1. Lol
phantom power
(25,966 posts)2. “your future will involve rowing a boat down a river of rotting corpses”
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)3. "Yale Center for Oh My God Wake Up You Assholes"
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)4. Nice shoutout to my alma mater.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)5. Climate catastrophe? Climate disruption? Climate apocalypse? Kick the deniers in the nuts with truth
valerief
(53,235 posts)6. Underwater Timeshares Climate.
And why doesn't Andy have a TV show? Cuz they'd have to start calling it Hellovision for the way he demonizes our ruling class masters.
LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)7. How about DOOM?
Plain old ordinary DOOM seems to say it all.