In 2019, The Guardian newspaper announced that they would start using the terms "climate emergency, crisis or disruption" instead of "climate change". "For example, the phrase 'climate change' sounds rather passive and soft when what scientists are talking about is humanity by disaster," said editor-in-chief Katharine Viner.<\/p>\n
However, as it turns out, a more gentle approach is more effective. According to a USC study published today in the journal\u00a0Climatic Change<\/em> , people are not only more familiar with "climate change" and "global warming", but these terms are more worrying than their overheated alternatives: "climate crisis", "climate emergency". \u201d and \u201cclimate justice\u201d. (Lance Ignon, more at priceschool.usc.edu<\/span><\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In 2019, The Guardian newspaper announced that it would start using the terms \u201eclimate emergency, crisis or disruption\u201c instead of \u201eclimate change.\u201c \u201eFor example, the phrase \u201aclimate change\u2018 sounds quite passive and gentle when what scientists are talking about is a catastrophe for humanity,\u201c said editor-in-chief Katharine Viner. But as it turns out, a more gentle approach is more effective. According to a USC study published today [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}