Global warming to end!

The White House has announced that there will be no more "global warming!"

The White House wants the public to start using the term "global climate disruption" in place of "global warming" -- fearing the latter term oversimplifies the problem and makes it sound less dangerous than it really is.

That's because it is less dangerous than it really is - meaning that it is less dangerous than the administration purports it to be. For instance, there has been no global warming since 1998. Faced with the embarrassment of this fact, a terminology change is in order!

White House science adviser John Holdren urged people to start using the phrase during a speech last week in Oslo, echoing a plea he made three years earlier. Holdren said global warming is a "dangerous misnomer" for a problem far more complicated than a rise in temperature.

You bet the problem is "far more complicated than a rise in temperature." The complications are related directly to losing control and losing money. Just as the old saw about gun control being more about control than guns, so climate science has become so heavily politicized that it is no longer really about science, but about power politics.

[C]limate science is not primarily concerned with climate change. "Global warming" is on the whole a political movement, not a scientific discipline. Climate science has no "product." The outcomes of climate modeling cannot be used to do anything except what is being done with them - promote statist control of ever-expanding slices of national economies to conform to a transnationalist ideology.

If climate science could be used to do anything else, it would already be happening. But have you ever heard of any report of climate science's findings not in connection with expanding the power of the state or trans-state organs?

Since we of the lumpen proletariat are rejecting relinquishing what little sovereignty we have left, a relabeling is in order.

"They're trying to come up with more politically palatable ways to sell some of this stuff," said Republican pollster Adam Geller, noting that Democrats also rolled out a new logo and now refer to the Bush tax cuts as "middle-class tax cuts."

The Dems' linguistic hoop jumping springs directly from the Left's embracing years ago of postmodern deconstructionism, the precept that all speech is concerned with exercising power. Since science is speech, the Left comfortably believes that science should be concerned with gaining power, too. I explained this is not-too-technical detail in my 2009 post, "Scientific deconstructionism." See also my follow-on essay, "The Po-Mo Deconstructed Presidency."