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Global Weirding????

In a NY Times Op-Ed by Thomas Friedman (Hot, Flat, and Crowded) posted yesterday, Friedman suggested a new term to define what’s happening to our earth and the climate: Global Weirding. As Friedman says:

I prefer the term “global weirding,” because that is what actually happens as global temperatures rise and the climate changes. The weather gets weird. The hots are expected to get hotter, the wets wetter, the dries drier and the most violent storms more numerous.

The term ‘global warming’ has gotten a pretty bad PR wrap. People tend to think that if it’s cold outside then global warming doesn’t exist. ‘Climate change’ better describes what’s actually happening but lacks the ‘take action now’ fear from the word. So is it ‘global weirding’? Post your thoughts using the comments link above.