Name Changers

Changing the name does not change reality.

Clean coal is an oxymoron.

   First, it was called Global Warming.
   Then, the preferred term was Climate Change.
   Now, the label used by international groups is Climate Challenge.
   Still, that's not enough to satisfy those who insist there's no such thing, so they have come up with the term Weather Extremes, in their latest effort to void the description that scientists agree is a direct result of man's use of fossil fuels worldwide.

   It works this way: If you don't like the report, change the name and claim that A is no longer A, but is really B, an alternative fact that eliminates any danger  associated with A. Along with that, you insist that A never really existed in the first place, and those who say otherwise are part of a grand conspiracy to foist their fake news on the rest of the world  for their own greedy reasons.
   Then you keep pounding the table, talk longer, louder and faster and don't let anyone else get a contrary word in, so that you are the only one talking and therefore you must be right.
   And beside, those in the irresponsible fake news media have an agenda of their own that is nothing more than to make others look bad. They're not really out to reporting the truth at all, but only want to make us Real Folk look bad.
   Yammer, yammer, yammer.

   Eventually, if you're lucky enough, people will begin to believe you and elect you to high office, where you will have an even better opportunity to broadcast your version of the Real Truth to counteract the Fake Truth spouted by those who disagree and think they know something that the rest of us Real Folk don't.
   Once you're in high office, you can appoint your acolyte Name Changers to take charge of federal agencies that deal with such nonsense, cut their operating budgets and order them to stop studying air and water pollution and its effect on weather, dump all previous data gathered by scientists and insist that there is no reliable data to prove such silly things happen.
   Of course there's no data. You just threw it out, because government is not in the weather or climate change business, and if there is no data, the so-called problem doesn't exist. Moreover, everybody knows that the alleged researchers at all those radical leftist universities are a bunch of whackos anyway, and are not to be believed.
   Besides, we need coal and oil to power our wonderful industries that generate profits for the investors who  own the corporations.

   So while the rest of the world takes action to deal with pollution issues that cause serious environmental problems, the U.S. government wants to drop out of the Paris agreement on climate challenges, reduce the budgets of various federal agencies, tells the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to stop monitoring or studying changes in the weather and generally denies that the world's climate is in fact changing. Meanwhile, the world's six largest development banks, including the World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, have been increasing their financing to tackle the challenge of a changing worldwide climate.
   Last year, the banks devoted $27.4 billion to finance climate mitigation issues and how to deal with changes, up from $25 billion in 2015.
   But the president of the United States says there's no problem, so don't spend any money it.
   Note to the White House: Weather and climate are not the same thing. Ask any grade school student.
   Besides, changing the name doesn't change the problem, nor does it make the problem go away.