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Global warming as a metaphor.

Publication: ETC.: A Review of General Semantics
Publication Date: 01-APR-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Global warming as a metaphor.(METAPHORS IN ACTION)

Article Excerpt
I FIRST HEARD THE TERM ''global warming" in the late 1970s. I heard it during some talks by nuclear scientists from Los Alamos, New Mexico. They claimed that the earth was warming up, and it would be good to build more nuclear power plants since they would not contribute to global warming, the way coal plants do.

I was curious about this, so I found a government study. In the late 1970s, a group of U.S. government scientists met and discussed what science actually knew about global...

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