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Re: [Phys-L] Polar Vortex



On 1/7/2014 2:19 PM, John Denker wrote:
The term was coined by Frank "Death Tax" Luntz back in 2003. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Luntz#cite_note-15 The best interests of the public and/or the scientific community were *not* factors in the original coinage. The intent was to spin up something "less frightening" than global warming.
From a blogger to the Oregonian which also cited the Luntz story:

And yet, the phrase “climate change” has been used in scientific articles back at least 45 years – a quick search with Google Scholar turns up a paper with Climate Change in the title dating from 1966.

These both must be true since they were posted on the internet! ;-)

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