Frank Luntz Quotes
Some people call it global warming; some people call it climate change. What is the difference?
Luntz, Frank. "The Environment: A Cleaner, Safer, Healthier America." Luntz Research Companies, 2002.
This was a climate-change science denier who actually helps make the climate change argument in this quote. Since the Earth has had several ice ages, there must of been times when it did not go from hot to cold as Koch herein observes. During periods after the ice ages, climate went from cold to hot. But this point has nothing to do with the contemporary evidence of man made global warming.. Scientists with the benefit of mathematics have been able to calculate the normal and average temperature fluctuations and the actual fluctuations that have occurred since man began the industrial revolution. The clear difference shows that there has been an increase over and above the normal fluctuations that new expected.
This was his last House debate and whereas almost all scientists had agreed that climate change was a serious challenge to the nation, an ideologically driven majority of his Republican Party denied that that there was any climate change that was different from the usual vicissitudes of nature, he tried to persuade his anti-scientific, conservative colleagues to face reality.
Frank Ian Luntz is an American political and communications consultant, pollster and pundit, best known for developing talking points and other messaging for Republican causes. His work has included assistance with messaging for Newt Gingrich's Contract with America, and public relations support for pro-Israel policies in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. He advocated use of vocabulary crafted to produce a desired effect; including use of the term death tax instead of estate tax, and climate change instead of global warming.
