New Strategy

From Politico.com:
"Leading climate scientists and meteorologists are banking on a new strategy for talking about climate change: Take the politics out of it.

That means avoiding the phrase “climate change,” so loaded with partisan connotations as it is. Stop talking about who or what is most responsible."

Yeah, this is real. It is sort of the George Lakoff approach to language; only use bullshit that skirts the real issue. It is both condescending (those people can't understand what we understand do to THEIR bias)and counterproductive. Oh, and not a "new strategy" at all. "Leading scientists and meteorologists" have been avoiding the subject for decades, at least the hard discussion about what needs to be done.

Then there is the recent article in the NYTimes where the author wonders why skiers, being rich elites and all, aren't more "political" when it comes to global warming.And why resort owners aren't more active. But of course the whole frame for "politically active" is legislative, lobbying your representative to pass climate/environment friendly bills. The owners mostly say they don't want to sound too strident and scare off investors, wealthy clients etc..as if passing some bill will slow the economy.

The truly perverse part is the photo towards the end showing a bunch of coal miners standing around listening to some guy talk about "clean energy". Apparently they trap some methane from the coal mine to power the chairlifts. What the Davos. Fortune 500 crowd calls a win-win. Doing good while doing well. Crush with one hand while pretending to help with the other. The Times journalist was impressed.