Notes of why the Guardian is changing the language it uses about the environment :
- Style guide : terms describe the environmental crisis
- Climate change-climate emergency /crisis/breakdown
- Global heating-global warming
- Original one are not banned
- Katharine Viner said we want to ensure we are scientifically precise
- UN ,Eu using stronger language to describe the situation
- Wildlife rather than biodiversity , fish population-fish stocks , climate science denier-climate sceptic
- Climate crisis is no longer future problem.
Now the house style guide recommends terms such as ‘climate crisis’ and ‘global heating’. Style guide introduces terms to describe the environmental crisis like the preferred term of 'climate change' is 'climate emergency', crisis or breakdown and 'global heating' is favoured over 'global warming', even though original one is not banned. This is to ensure that we are scientifically precise, said Katharine Viner. Besides, UN and Eu are using also a stronger language to describe the situation. Other terms that have been updated like 'wildlife' rather than 'biodiversity', 'fish population instead of 'fish stocks and 'climate denier' rather than 'climate sceptic'. The addition of the global carbon dioxide level to the Guardian’s daily weather pages. “Levels of CO2 in the atmosphere have risen so dramatically'' so Viner said that people should be aware that climate crisis is no longer a future problem.
