{"id":7462,"date":"2023-09-21T15:35:26","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T13:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=7462"},"modified":"2023-09-21T15:35:26","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T13:35:26","slug":"our-vocabulary-is-adapting-to-a-warmer-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2023\/09\/21\/our-vocabulary-is-adapting-to-a-warmer-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Our vocabulary is adapting to a warmer planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\" role=\"presentation\"><span>T<\/span><\/span><span>here on August 8, 1975 it was not possible to ascertain how many readers had turned to the new one\u00a0<\/span><span>article<\/span><span> in the magazine\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><em><span>Science<\/span><\/em><span>\u00a0from a geochemist\u00a0<\/span><span>Wallace Broecker<\/span><span>\u00a0from Columbia University&#039;s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. Almost half a century ago, it was barely possible to track clicks or likes, so Broecker simply had to hope his message got through. It was urgent, expressed directly in its headline: \u201cClimate Change: Are We on the Verge of Significant Global Warming? <\/span><span>According to NASA<\/span><span>\u00a0the headline first appeared in print with the term &quot;global warming&quot;. Although Broecker, who died in 2019 after devoting decades to studying and writing about climate change, might have hoped for more from his landmark paper, there was barely a whisper from the press or the public: A full-text database and search engine <\/span><span>LexisNexis <\/span><span>\u00a0she discovered only two uses of &quot;global warming&quot; in the five years that followed the piece\u00a0<\/span><em><span>Science<\/span><\/em><span>\u00a0\u2013 both in the magazine\u00a0<\/span><em><span>The Economist<\/span><\/em><span>\u00a0, during the tumultuous summer of 1977, when a heat wave led to\u00a0<\/span><span>24-hour blackout in New York City<\/span><span> , which led to 3,700 arrests, damage to 1,600 stores, and at least 1,000 fires. (<em>JEFFREY KLUGER<\/em> )<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was impossible to tell on August 8, 1975, how many readers had turned to a new article in the journal Science by geochemist Wallace Broecker of Columbia University\u2019s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. Almost half a century ago, it was barely possible to track clicks or likes, so Broecker simply had to hope that his message got through. It was urgent, expressed directly by its headline: \u201eClimate Change: We Are on the Verge of Significant [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7462","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\/7462","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=7462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}