Post by marchesarosa on Sept 22, 2010 10:15:39 GMT 1
Newspeak Climate Dictionary
The discussion of the semantic games being played in the press, journals and throughout popular culture relevant to weather/climate reminded me of someone. His name was Winston Smith. If you recall, he was the main character from Orwell’s dystopian novel. Winston worked on ‘improving’ the dictionary, the Newspeak dictionary. His job was not to chronicle the ever increasing diversity of the language, but rather to limit the language in the pursuit of narrowing the possible extent of discourse.
Words are powerful. The warmists know this. As their tangled web continues to unravel, they know that their big lie cannot continue to be perpetrated without increased control of the discourse. It’s not enough to have a defacto monopoly over the opinion cartel, the language must also be manipulated to reduce the potential for us to have ‘impure thoughts’ or to accidentally become aware of the contradictions. As a result:
Warm is warm.
Cool is unwarm.
Cold is super plus unwarm.
‘Unprecedented’ describes any event which has not been observed within recent memory.
‘Denial’ is disbelief in something that doesn’t exist.
Cold air from Antarctica (in SH winter) is an ‘extreme’ event.
‘Extreme’ applies to any weather event whose measurable properties deviate perceptibly from the long term average.
Weather is climate, except when it’s not.
The basic building block of all life on earth is a pollutant.
Anthropogenic global warming cannot be falsified, thus climate change is science.
Thanks to fhsiv here
wattsupwiththat.com/2010/08/28/nature-notices-the-cold-global-warming-blamed/
The discussion of the semantic games being played in the press, journals and throughout popular culture relevant to weather/climate reminded me of someone. His name was Winston Smith. If you recall, he was the main character from Orwell’s dystopian novel. Winston worked on ‘improving’ the dictionary, the Newspeak dictionary. His job was not to chronicle the ever increasing diversity of the language, but rather to limit the language in the pursuit of narrowing the possible extent of discourse.
Words are powerful. The warmists know this. As their tangled web continues to unravel, they know that their big lie cannot continue to be perpetrated without increased control of the discourse. It’s not enough to have a defacto monopoly over the opinion cartel, the language must also be manipulated to reduce the potential for us to have ‘impure thoughts’ or to accidentally become aware of the contradictions. As a result:
Warm is warm.
Cool is unwarm.
Cold is super plus unwarm.
‘Unprecedented’ describes any event which has not been observed within recent memory.
‘Denial’ is disbelief in something that doesn’t exist.
Cold air from Antarctica (in SH winter) is an ‘extreme’ event.
‘Extreme’ applies to any weather event whose measurable properties deviate perceptibly from the long term average.
Weather is climate, except when it’s not.
The basic building block of all life on earth is a pollutant.
Anthropogenic global warming cannot be falsified, thus climate change is science.
Thanks to fhsiv here
wattsupwiththat.com/2010/08/28/nature-notices-the-cold-global-warming-blamed/
