Cold Tongue

Unless you watched MSNBC on Wednesday morning this week you won’t know what a cold tongue is. If you are a climate scientist you probably do.

But let your imagination run free for a couple of minutes and respond to this article with your first guess.

A couple of months ago the mainstream media was full of references to “atmospheric rivers”. That term disappeared quickly when it was revealed that not only is the term about 30 years, all it means is that an ordinary high moisture, low pressure front is on its way.

Excessive dramatization of the climate crisis is a fulltime job. Mind you, I’m not a climate crisis denier, I’m simply saying that it’s amusing to watch the media ratchet up their rhetoric.

In my research of this topic, I came across a Glossary of climate change terminology.

Here it is; from A to Z.

https://19january2017snapshot.epa.gov/climatechange/glossary-climate-change-terms_.html

I was very disappointed to find that one of the most recent and provocative terms, “cold tongue” was not included. It’s not what your probably imagining right now. And it not a sausage. It is … wait for it … A measure of the anomaly in sea-surface temperature in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific relative to the annual cycle.

Of course, understanding what that actually means requires even more research which I’m not quite up for right now.

But, here are a couple more teaser terms to stimulate your imagination

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How ’bout we create a TV Game Show dedicated solely to climate change terminology? Watch out Jeopardy!

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