The different terms being used instead of "climate change" don't seem to be having any impact on people.
USC’s recently released Understanding America Study (UAS) suggests that terms like "climate crisis" or "climate emergency" have no effect on on how people perceive climate change despite efforts from media outlets to try and get people to become more concerned about it.
Marc Morano is author "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change" and publisher of ClimateDepot.com. He's been covering "climate change" for the better part of 25 years. Some of that time was spent in the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee during the Bush and Obama presidencies. Morano had been skeptical of any "climate emergencies" starting back then.
"We actually encouraged the alarmists and scientists to be as public as possible because we knew that the claims they were making were not going to be effective because they were so over the top and ridiculous," Morano said.
According to Morano, those alarmists and scientists actually helped the cause of climate skepticism with the words and phrases they used. He believes the public is starting to catch on to this ongoing attempt that the media has adopted from the so-called climate experts.
"The public knows they're being conned," said Morano. "This is obviously an agenda and used car salesmen tactics."
Morano says the original testimony about climate change when Al Gore talked about it in the early 90's was all just a strategy for business incentives and move towards a more "green" economy. That has all transitioned into more absurd ideas in recent years. This includes carbon taxes, limiting meat consumption, thermostat control and no more gas-powered vehicles.
"It turned into an environmental concern and passing some regulations and make green energy investments to this is an existential threat and we have to throw away our entire normalized existence," said Morano.
Some ideas thrown around have even gone as far as credit cards monitoring a carbon footprint and eating insects and lab-grown meat.
Older folks tend to be the most skeptical about climate change. Younger people are the most likely to have the most concern about climate change and believe in a climate crisis.
"The only old people that are in to this are the die hard environmentalists or Democrat activists who just believe that they are saving their grandchildren by restricting food, going after fertilizer and restricting gas-powered cars," Morano said.