Frozen Out: 98% of Stories Ignore That Ice-bound Ship Was On Global Warming Mission

[Pooky 3,840]

I know where your comment was directed ...

Evidently you don't.

... and I think you are dead wrong that the political right in the US would have reacted more positively had it been more accurately portrayed.

My point is that without "Global Warming" as the catchy byline, it would have been far more difficult for any denialists to have argued effectively against the science. I'm not saying they're right, or that they wouldn't still have tried, but they would have had a much tougher time of it. As it is, when you have difficulty showing the "Warming" part, it makes it difficult to defend "Global Warming".

Climate Change, on the other hand, is more difficult to explain, but far harder to form a cogent argue against.

In fact, I have to question which 'side' of the argument chose this catchy byline. I very much doubt the climate scientists themselves have ever referred to climate science in those terms, nothing I have read (which is not a great deal but more than the average Al Gore hater) suggests that the science is framed in those terms by those scientist who are trying to research the issue which is after all the most useful tool to use if you are actually interested in the topic rather than just a bit of liberal bashing

The culprit's name is Wally Broecker, who wrote a paper in 1975, called "Climate Change: Are We On The Brink Of A Pronounced Global Warming" in Science magazine. He's a geochemist at Columbia University.