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To: Maple MAGA who wrote (1540208)

5/27/2025 12:24:59 AM

From: Wharf Rat

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"No, the White House has not single-handedly managed to stop the apparent rising temperature"

Gee, there's a surprise.

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‘global climate disruption’
Rat's favorite term....

Global Weirding

UC Santa Barbara
“Global weirding” is a play on words that serves as an alternative to “global warming.” Thomas Friedman popularized the term in a 2007 New York Times article.

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"it makes the situation sound more dangerous"
Climate change" was intended to do just the opposite.

Message 32004359
The most notorious of Frank Luntz's memos focused on global warming denial in which he urged Republicans to use only the term "climate change" as it was less threatening than "global warming." Luntz further explains how to bullshit: