Your favorite term for: "Anthropogenic Global Weirding"

"weirding" as from the book Dune?? There was no global "weirding" in that....and instead of all men, it was normally the Bene Gesserit.

 

Well I've normally associated AGW as anthropogenic global warming, which for that I'm fine with as is. If we're talking about weirding, I've only heard it as the weirding way (a particular martial arts method). Global weirding doesn't make any sense to me...

 

read weird the adjective.....different from weirding

 

I call it reality. I prefer to deal with reality than weirding, as I have no belief in any super natural forces.

 

It is what it is!!!
Nature

 

I would try to name it but it is such a moving target and the rules of the game keep changing.

 

I call it, if you wish to instruct me on what words I ought to use, then learn how an apostrophe is use'd, or resig'n you'rself to being ignored by those who either understan'd standanr'd American usage, or will at least pay attentio'n to the red line's in the built-in spell check on this web'site.

 

Denier pr0n
Palin "science"
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Oh no, so if I use an apostrophe in an Australian way I'll be ignored?
That'll be cool I guess.

(for those wondering, "that'll" defies the rule of abbreviation in that an apostrophised abbreviation should only have one letter less than the original 2 words it replaces yet it wasn't picked up by spell check!) (That is why can't isn't a word.)

 

Another moronic thread, designed I would guess to keep folks from having a rational discussion of what is a huge issue. Who gives a rip about what you call it.

How 'bout we ignore this thread and move on to one that matters,, like what is a reasonable human response to human caused global warming/climate change/f*#king up the nest in which we live?

 

^ it is a mouth full but not bad: "F*****g up the nest warming".

 

G'day, Pat. Or is that considered slang?

And of course, now I'm wasting my time trying to find more words violating that rule.

Ah, fo'c'sle. If we allow nautical terms, I'm sure I could find a few more. Nor'easter. You can still occasionally see bo's'n or bos'n's whistle.

All the "would" and "will" contractions (I'd, he'd, she'll). And "had" contractions (We'd better get going.)

I think "I'd" is so commonly used that I'd be hard-pressed to consider it sub-standard usage. So I think there are widely accepted violations of that rule.

 

Since we're thread-drifting a bit here, here's one of my favorite passages from Frank Herbert's "Dune", which seems apropos for this message board:

"Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans in the finite space of a planetary ecosystem as it is of gas molecules in a sealed flask. The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive."

- Pardot Keynes, First Planetologist of Arrakis

 

LOL... Thanks for lightening an otherwise dour thread on climate.

 

This may be of interest:

Yale F&ES Project on Climate Change Communication

Less sciencey that the things I typically enjoin you to read.