I hate to laugh, but why not? Heres New Yorker satirist Andy Borowitz on a recent study showing that the phrase climate change manages to essentially elicit no reaction from anyone. Tom 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. newyorker/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2014/05/scientists-consider-new-names-for-climate-change.html#entry-more
Posted on: Sun, 08 Jun 2014 16:35:13 +0000