{"id":11679,"date":"2019-02-21T11:50:23","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T19:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11679"},"modified":"2019-02-21T11:50:32","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T19:50:32","slug":"changing-reality-with-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/changing-reality-with-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing Reality With Words"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reinvention of vocabulary can often be more effective than any social protest movement. Malarial swamps can become healthy \u201cwetlands.\u201d Fetid \u201cdumps\u201d are often rebranded as green \u201clandfills.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Global warming was once a worry about too much heat. It implied that man-made carbon emissions had so warmed the planet that life as we knew it would soon be imperiled without radical changes in consumer lifestyles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet in the last 30 years, record cold spells, inordinate snow levels and devastating rains have been common. How to square that circle?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Substitute \u201cclimate change\u201d for global warming. Presto! Any radical change in weather could be perceived as symptomatic of too much climate-changing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Suddenly, blizzards, deluges and subzero temperatures meant that typically unpredictable weather was \u201chaywire\u201d because of affluent Westernized lifestyles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amgreatness.com\/2019\/02\/20\/changing-reality-with-words\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness The reinvention of vocabulary can often be more effective than any social protest movement. Malarial swamps can become healthy \u201cwetlands.\u201d Fetid \u201cdumps\u201d are often rebranded as green \u201clandfills.\u201d Global warming was once a worry about too much heat. It implied that man-made carbon emissions had so warmed the planet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-32n","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1666,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/global-warming-rip\/","url_meta":{"origin":11679,"position":0},"title":"Global Warming&#8211;RIP?","author":"victorhanson","date":"November 1, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Not long ago, candidate Obama promised to cool the planet and lower the rising seas. 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