Posted by
Average Voter on Thursday, October 29, 2009 11:20:39 AM
The BBC's Bloom website has compiled a list of common jargon used on the global warming debate and
created a glossary for easy reference.
Some of the terms they put up are quite interesting. Here are a few examples:
Car clubs
Not, in this instance, a club for car enthusiasts, but an organisation providing car rental to members at very short notice and usually for short periods, such as an hour or two.
Food miles
A product's 'food miles' indicate how far it has travelled to get from where it (or its ingredients) were grown to where you eat them. Food freight - especially by air and road - is very carbon intensive.
Got to have this one...
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
The IPCC is an international scientific body that publishes papers and reports on climate change, particularly on topics related to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the treaty that led to the Kyoto protocol.
Petrolhead
A car enthusiast; often used to describe those who are most reluctant to limit their car use or petrol consumption.
We call them 'Motorheads' here.
Hopefully this will help you with the correct usage of climate change terminalogy. It sure is great that the media in the U.K. is so on top of this global warming stuff! I am surprised CNN hasn't got something like this.