But, do they care enough to make changes in their own lives?
To get Americans to care about climate change, just call it climate change
Wait, I don’t have global heating on here?
You may be hearing phrases like “climate crisis,” “climate emergency” and “climate justice” a lot as the 2026 United Nations climate summit is underway. Political leaders, including U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres, are using them to try to get across the urgent risks and consequences of climate change. The danger is real, but is using this language actually persuasive?
They like throwing these phrases around after taking long fossil fueled trips
It turns out that Americans are more familiar with – and more concerned about – climate change and global warming than they are about climate crisis, climate emergency or climate justice, according to a survey we conducted with a nationally representative sample of 5,137 Americans.
Moreover, we found no evidence that the alternative terms increased people’s sense of urgency, willingness to support climate-friendly policies or willingness to act.
The familiar terms – climate change and global warming – did at least as well, and sometimes better, than climate crisis and climate emergency in eliciting concern, perceived urgency and willingness to act. The phrase climate justice consistently tended to do worse, likely in part because it was the least familiar. These response patterns were similar among Republicans, Democrats and independents.
It’s wild that the doomsday cult is having to run this stuff 35+ years on
Right now, the terms climate crisis, climate emergency or climate justice are less familiar and elicit less concern than climate change or global warming.
Or is it that fewer and fewer people care in practice?
Our advice: Don’t make the mistake of using overheated language. Just stick with familiar terms that people understand – use global warming when referring to rising temperatures and climate change for overall changes in the climate.
How about using terms to explain what all you Warmists have done in your own lives to conform to cult dogma.
Care in theory, not practice. They just want Other People to be forced to practice.
More than Once upon a Time the world has been heavily iced up. Whose SUV made it melt?
The climate mankind has enjoyed is an Anomaly. The world is not static. Shitt Changes. For all these petrified freaks know, the industrial revolution and all of the activity that we have seen has staved off Another frikken ice age.
I miss my global warming! It’s 35.8º F here this morning!