2014 05 30 Scientists Consider New Names for Climate Change

Yup. Their concern is just about at that level of intensity. 

Better to laugh than cry I guess...

Any one or two word nominations?

Paul Ray

Scientists Consider New Names for Climate Change

By Andy Borowitz  New Yorker Magazine May 30, 2014

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/scientists-consider-new-names-for-climate-change

NEW HAVEN (The Borowitz Report)—After a report from the Yale Center on Climate Change Communication showed that the term “climate change” elicits relatively little concern from the American public, leading scientists are recommending replacing it with a new term: “You will be burnt to a crisp and die.”
Other terms under consideration by the scientists include “your cities will be ravaged by tsunamis and floods” and “earth will be a fiery hellhole incapable of supporting human life.”
Scientists were generally supportive of the suggestions, with many favoring the term “your future will involve rowing a boat down a river of rotting corpses.”

“Any of these terms would do a better job conveying the urgency of the problem,” Tracy Klugian, a spokesperson for the newly renamed Yale Center for Oh My God Wake Up You Assholes, said.
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Andy Borowitz is a New York Times best-selling author and a comedian who has written for The New Yorker since 1998. He writes the Borowitz Report for newyorker.com.