Climate Chaos

Words are important. Silly as that may sound, they carry multiple messages and often unintended baggage. When scientists first noticed that the climate was warming on a global scale due to trapped human-produced gases, they knew that disaster was in the forecast. Polar ice caps were melting thus creating instability in the climate as oceans warm and rise and the jet stream shifts. They called this human caused phenomenon, 'Global Warming'. It's not an inacurate title, but it was a poor choice because it doesn't sound ominous enoug.  If you are living in a cold place, warming sounds pretty good.  Then the powers that be decided they would call in Climate Change. A better but not yet ideal title for such a critical problem. Change is not a bad thing in our language. We need a word that is accurate and alarming. I submit the word CLIMATE CHAOS, because weather patterns get chaotic and our farmers cannot grow food, for instance, in chaotic weather. Human caused climate chaos spurred on but overpopulation and our appetite for burning fossil fuels may just render our planet lifeless. The right title might help to inspire more action than we are now witnessing among leaders who have not been leaders at all on this most frightening issue.