{"id":7094,"date":"2010-09-17T12:06:08","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T16:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=7094"},"modified":"2010-09-17T12:06:08","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T16:06:08","slug":"white-house-retreats-on-%e2%80%98climate-change%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7094\/white-house-retreats-on-%e2%80%98climate-change%e2%80%99\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Retreats on \u2018Climate Change\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But that doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s changed its position.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2010\/09\/16\/white-house-global-warming-global-climate-disruption\/\" target=\"_blank\">Escalating the war on words<\/a> that began by replacing \u2018Global War on Terror\u2019 with \u2018Overseas Contingency Operation\u2019 and \u2018acts of terror\u2019 with \u2018man-made disasters,\u2019 President Barack Obama\u2019s advisors are once again going Orwellian.\u00a0 Now, instead of \u2018Global Warming\u2019 or \u2018Climate Change\u2019 the president\u2019s top climate czar John Holdren wants Americans to start saying \u2018Global Climate Disruption.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Not everyone is convinced the re-branding scheme will work:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;They&#8217;re trying to come up with more politically palatable ways to sell some of this stuff,&#8221; said Republican pollster Adam Geller, noting that Democrats also rolled out a new logo and now refer to the Bush <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2010\/09\/16\/white-house-global-warming-global-climate-disruption\/\" target=\"undefined\">tax cuts<\/a> as &#8220;middle-class tax cuts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said the climate change change-up likely derives from flagging public support for their bill to regulate emissions. He said the term &#8220;global warming&#8221; makes the cause easy to ridicule whenever there&#8217;s a snowstorm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every time we&#8217;re digging our cars out &#8212; what global warming?&#8221; he said. &#8220;(Global climate disruption is) more of a sort of generic blanket term, I guess, that can apply in all weather conditions.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ostensibly, the name change is designed to make people take climate change more seriously.\u00a0 More likely, it\u2019ll have the opposite effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But that doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s changed its position.\u00a0 Escalating the war on words that began by replacing \u2018Global War on Terror\u2019 with \u2018Overseas Contingency Operation\u2019 and \u2018acts of terror\u2019 with \u2018man-made disasters,\u2019 President Barack Obama\u2019s advisors are once again going Orwellian.\u00a0 Now, instead of \u2018Global Warming\u2019 or \u2018Climate Change\u2019 the president\u2019s top climate czar John [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,26,1846,205,1848,1847],"class_list":["post-7094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-climate-change","tag-global-climate-disruption","tag-global-warming","tag-john-holdren","tag-orwellian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7095,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7094\/revisions\/7095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}