Seeing as it's so commonly misunderstood I wonder if "catastrophic climate variance" wouldn't have been a better term in hindsight.

ajmurmann an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I'm not sure a more complicated term would prevent people who don't want to understand the issue from finding new ways to not understand it.

People don't know what variance is.

Most people have an intuitive understanding of what an average is, but "distance from the average" is mystifying to them.

	▲	fc417fc802 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Ok fine I hear you, in that case how about catastrophic climate chaos? It's even alliterative.
	▲	colechristensen 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		And if you're trying to sell the public on the numbers of what's concerning, those numbers should be able to communicate the changes they expect. "This number is small but it means BAD THINGS" isn't a very good message