Corporate denial on climate change

[Mike Quinn]

Despite the long rant, they do still call it global warming:
http://tinyurl.com/r5fnh

On 9/20/06, Michael E. Soukup <mikayak3 at comcast.net> wrote:
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>   "Climate Change" on earth has been going on for 6 billion years - of
> which man has been present for a only a tiny, tiny fraction.  I have no
> doubt that "climate change" is going on presently (notice how they no longer
> call it "global warming" - this is due to the fact that calling it "global
> warming" *could*  make one look like a fool in a few years - if there is a
> cooling trend.  Calling it "climate change" - well, you *can't *go wrong
> with that!!  I mean, if it gets warmer, colder, wetter, drier, calmer,
> stormier - it doesn't matter - you can blame ALL of it on "climate change" -
> it covers all of the bases.  It's disingenuous - but it's covers one's
> butt.  I even told my wife 10 years ago, when "global warming" was all rage
> that soon they would change that name to "Global climate change" - because
> global warming "could be wrong".  And, since the experts *truly* had and
> have no clue as to whether the earth is getting warmer or cooler (it's
> getting warmer in some places, cooler in others), they would have to change
> the name of their mission to "global climate change" in order to not look
> silly.
>
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