Aug 25, 2014 21:02
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global warming-denying conservatives
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Are anti-GMO activists just like ***global warming-denying conservatives***?
It's unjustifiable for defenders of science to lump together ***global warming-denying conservatives*** and anti-GMO activists as disturbingly anti-science, writes biologist Kamil Ahsan in an interesting article (http://gmwatch.org/index.php/news/archive/2014/15579).
Wie würdet ihr das formulieren? Zumindest für die Überschrift suche ich nach einem möglichst kurzen und prägnanten Begriff.
It's unjustifiable for defenders of science to lump together ***global warming-denying conservatives*** and anti-GMO activists as disturbingly anti-science, writes biologist Kamil Ahsan in an interesting article (http://gmwatch.org/index.php/news/archive/2014/15579).
Wie würdet ihr das formulieren? Zumindest für die Überschrift suche ich nach einem möglichst kurzen und prägnanten Begriff.
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(Politisch) konservative Klimaskeptiker
Ich würde es umdrehen.
Vielleicht auch: Klimaskeptiker aus dem Lager der Konservativen
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Im Fließtext: : Skeptiker. die den Treibhauseffekt an-/bezweifeln ...
Vielleicht auch: Klimaskeptiker aus dem Lager der Konservativen
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Im Fließtext: : Skeptiker. die den Treibhauseffekt an-/bezweifeln ...
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Danik 2014
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Danke, Danik2014
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Horst Huber (X)
: Sollten sie eher (Klimawandel-)Leugner heißen?
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Danke, Horst. Ich glaube, mittlerweile hat sich „...skeptiker“ eingebürgert. Ich kann mich aber auch irren.
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Steffen Walter
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Danke, Steffen.
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Susanne Schiewe
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Danke, Susanne.
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Gudrun Wolfrath
: http://www.faz.net/aktuell/wissen/klima/klimaskeptiker-die-l...
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Danke, Gudrun.
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ibz
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Danke, ibz.
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mill2
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Danke, mill2.
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Björn Vrooman
: It's "anthropogener Treibhauseffekt". Journalists are already under fire for not being accurate. Still: You're the only one using "konservativ" correctly (if needed).
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In German, the term „Treibhauseffekt“ - though describing a perfectly normal phenomenon - is primarily associated with the man-made effects of the shrinking of the ozone layer. |Actually, I am not much worried about journalists.
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Ramey Rieger (X)
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Thanks, Ramey.
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Harald Moelzer (medical-translator)
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Danke euch allen! Ich hab mich letztlich für Irenes Lösung entschieden:
Gehören Gentech-Gegner und Klimaskeptiker in eine Schublade?
In einem interessanten Artikel schreibt der Biologe Kamil Ahsan, es sei unverantwortlich, wenn angebliche Verfechter der Wissenschaft konservative Klimaskeptiker (die den Einfluss des Menschen auf die Erderwärmung ableugnen) und Gentech-Gegner in einen Topf werfen und gleichermaßen als „unwissenschaftlich“ abtun. "
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konservative Klimawandelverneiner
Hier ein Beispiel dazu (auch ein Antonym, "Klimawandelanhänger"):
http://11k2.wordpress.com/2010/01/12/der-arktische-oszillato...
In unseren Breiten ist es gar nicht so ungewöhnlich, im Winter Schnee und Temperaturen unter dem Gefrierpunkt zu haben. Aber trotzdem sind sich Laien und Fachleute einig, dass es unüblich kalt ist. Die überzeugten Klimawandelverneiner sehen die aktuelle Saison natürlich als “Beweis” dafür an, dass man auch weiterhin beliebig viele Abgase in die Atmosphäre feuern darf. Und die Klimawandelanhänger sind leicht verwirrt.
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Und noch hier:
http://magazin.cultura21.de/kultur/wissen/der-klimawandel-un...
Viele der kürzlichen Angriffe von Klimawandelverneinern auf die Klimawissenschaft – und noch beunruhigender: auf ihre Personen – sind üblicherweise durch Interessengruppen oder Dogmen getrieben, nicht durch einen ehrlichen Versuch, eine alternative Theorie zu entwickeln, die die Beobachtungen befriedigend erklären kann.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Cuccinelli
In dem Brief wurde auch Bestürzung geäußert über die Art und Weise, wie „Klimawandelverneiner“ nicht nur die Klimaforschung im Allgemeinen, sondern auch einzelne Klimaforscher angreifen würden. Derartige Angriffe würden nicht von einem aufrichtigen Streben nach alternativen Erklärungen geleitet, sondern von „Interessengruppen oder Dogmen.“
http://11k2.wordpress.com/2010/01/12/der-arktische-oszillato...
In unseren Breiten ist es gar nicht so ungewöhnlich, im Winter Schnee und Temperaturen unter dem Gefrierpunkt zu haben. Aber trotzdem sind sich Laien und Fachleute einig, dass es unüblich kalt ist. Die überzeugten Klimawandelverneiner sehen die aktuelle Saison natürlich als “Beweis” dafür an, dass man auch weiterhin beliebig viele Abgase in die Atmosphäre feuern darf. Und die Klimawandelanhänger sind leicht verwirrt.
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Und noch hier:
http://magazin.cultura21.de/kultur/wissen/der-klimawandel-un...
Viele der kürzlichen Angriffe von Klimawandelverneinern auf die Klimawissenschaft – und noch beunruhigender: auf ihre Personen – sind üblicherweise durch Interessengruppen oder Dogmen getrieben, nicht durch einen ehrlichen Versuch, eine alternative Theorie zu entwickeln, die die Beobachtungen befriedigend erklären kann.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Cuccinelli
In dem Brief wurde auch Bestürzung geäußert über die Art und Weise, wie „Klimawandelverneiner“ nicht nur die Klimaforschung im Allgemeinen, sondern auch einzelne Klimaforscher angreifen würden. Derartige Angriffe würden nicht von einem aufrichtigen Streben nach alternativen Erklärungen geleitet, sondern von „Interessengruppen oder Dogmen.“
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konservative Leugner der globalen Erwärmung
...klingt besser, finde ich...
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Yorkshireman
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Harald Moelzer (medical-translator)
: auch eine gute Lösung
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Björn Vrooman
: Disagree with Harald. A) too long B) means: "politisch dem Konservatismus zugehörende Leugner der globalen Erwärmung" - because you can't just say "konservativ" as in "werterhaltend". Probably why people refrain from using the word in this combination.
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konservative globale-Erwärmungsleugner
This gets the global warming across
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Klima-Dissidenten im Lager der Republikaner.
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Zitat: Ob das 155-seitige Dokument, das Boehlert von dem Wissenschaftler-Gremium überreicht wurde, den allgemeinverbindlichen Kenntnisstand bei Washingtons Politikern nun anhebt, ist zumindest fraglich. Nicht nur geht Boehlert, der Klima-Dissident im Lager der Republikaner, am Ende des Jahres in den Ruhestand.
Quelle: http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/klimadebatte-global...
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Klima-Dissidenten im Lager der Republikaner.
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Note added at 16 hrs (2014-08-26 13:18:59 GMT)
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Zitat: Ob das 155-seitige Dokument, das Boehlert von dem Wissenschaftler-Gremium überreicht wurde, den allgemeinverbindlichen Kenntnisstand bei Washingtons Politikern nun anhebt, ist zumindest fraglich. Nicht nur geht Boehlert, der Klima-Dissident im Lager der Republikaner, am Ende des Jahres in den Ruhestand.
Quelle: http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/klimadebatte-global...
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ibz
: Das ist leider kein korrektes Deutsch. // Nein, die Kupplungen sind falsch. Tilmanns Lösung wäre korrekt.
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globale-Erwärmungs-Leugner - OK?
Which, IMO, actually should have been posted as a neutral to my answer rather than separately.
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Björn Vrooman
: Did you see my latest discussion entries (put some effort into them)? Agree with you about not posting separate answers - but also because Tilmann's solution is not correct, IMO. Won't disagree but Dissident means the opposite of what you were looking for
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Anti-GVO-Aktivisten auf einer Stufe mit Anti-Klima-Lobby?
I am just offering you an alternative because you wanted to have it short and it's a news piece. You do not want to make your headline look like an essay in political science. In addition, it's drawing the comparison by including "Anti" at both ends but for different reasons.
Furthermore:
Comparing US conservatives with German ones is kind of like comparing apples and oranges. Excerpt from the link that Olaf provided:
"Ever since its coining by conservatives, 'scientism' has been used pejoratively, most commonly by the same people who deny evolution and climate change. Consequently, leftists have historically renounced the word, signaling that that they fall on the side of scientific truth and not religion or spirituality."
http://gmwatch.org/index.php/news/archive/2014/15579)
And something like that you want to attribute to the CDU, FDP, or others in the "bürgerlich-konservativen Lager"? Nice one!
See "Anti-Klima-Lobby" or "Anti-Klimawandel" in action:
http://scienceblogs.de/frischer-wind/2008/11/17/trailer-des-...
http://www.welt.de/wissenschaft/umwelt/article10985058/Die-E...
http://cafe-europe.info/news-detail/hintergrund/news/austral...
http://www.utopia.de/magazin/den-tank-voller-klimaluegen-eik...
Anti-GVO-Aktivisten:
http://konsumrevolution.org/?cat=4
http://info.kopp-verlag.de/hintergruende/deutschland/jon-rap...
All links that should appeal to your target readership.
And before someone still objects to my non-inclusion of conservatives: A headline needs to get across the main point you're trying to make. You can elaborate on it later (and include "Klimaleugner/-skeptiker aus dem Lager der Republikaner" [yes, don't use conservatives - nod to Yorkshireman here]).
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Comparing US conservatives with German ones is kind of like comparing apples and oranges. Excerpt from the link that Olaf provided:
"Ever since its coining by conservatives, 'scientism' has been used pejoratively, most commonly by the same people who deny evolution and climate change. Consequently, leftists have historically renounced the word, signaling that that they fall on the side of scientific truth and not religion or spirituality."
http://gmwatch.org/index.php/news/archive/2014/15579)
And something like that you want to attribute to the CDU, FDP, or others in the "bürgerlich-konservativen Lager"? Nice one!
See "Anti-Klima-Lobby" or "Anti-Klimawandel" in action:
http://scienceblogs.de/frischer-wind/2008/11/17/trailer-des-...
http://www.welt.de/wissenschaft/umwelt/article10985058/Die-E...
http://cafe-europe.info/news-detail/hintergrund/news/austral...
http://www.utopia.de/magazin/den-tank-voller-klimaluegen-eik...
Anti-GVO-Aktivisten:
http://konsumrevolution.org/?cat=4
http://info.kopp-verlag.de/hintergruende/deutschland/jon-rap...
All links that should appeal to your target readership.
And before someone still objects to my non-inclusion of conservatives: A headline needs to get across the main point you're trying to make. You can elaborate on it later (and include "Klimaleugner/-skeptiker aus dem Lager der Republikaner" [yes, don't use conservatives - nod to Yorkshireman here]).
Discussion
"Einer der Klimahardliner, der republikanische Senator James Inhofe aus Oklahoma sagte: 'Versuchte man eine menschgemachte globale Erwärmung zu beweisen, indem man die wohlbekannte Tatsache, dass es heute wärmer ist als zum Ende der kleinen Eiszeit, ist das genau so, als würde man Sommer mit Winter vergleichen um einen katastrophalen Temperaturtrend zu belegen.'"
That is exactly what I had the discussion about with Irene: As soon as you omit the "anthropogen" in "anthropogener Treibhauseffekt", you're playing right into their (the conservatives') hands. They don't deny that the climate is changing (!), they simply deny that man can influence it.
Your Klimadissident (no hypen necessary here, IMO) is actually the other way around. It's someone who is not denying climate change in contrast to the rest of his colleagues (as far as I've read the Spiegel article, the guy was supportive of the scientists' findings) - it's the same word as in English. The term you were looking for in the Spiegel article was "Klimahardliner" - that was the one for the die-hard deniers of global warming.
What I thought was very interesting was another part in the article you posted:
"'[in den USA] haben Skeptiker des Klimawandels direkten Kontakt zu einflussreichen Mitgliedern des Senats und des Repräsentantenhauses.' Auch die mediale Darstellung sei anders als in Europa. 'Da wird gerne der Eindruck erweckt, als gäbe es in der Klimaforschung zwei gleich starke Seiten - und die werden dann auch beide ausgewogen angehört.'"
One more point why you should not equate American conservatives with German ones.
The link below will let you read up on almost anything hyphen-related (if you are OK with their "mean-spiritedness", kind of).
http://www.belleslettres.eu/artikel/schreibung-durchgekoppel...
The alternatives:
http://www.duden.de/sprachwissen/rechtschreibregeln/bindestr...
http://www.korrekturen.de/sprachleben/rechtschreibung/der_ho...
Now, in your example, it's first about the "globale Erwärmung". Because we're not talking about an entire phrase (as in "das In-den-Tag-hinein-Leben"), it marks a normal compound (noun), which should read Globalerwärmung. Not "globale" because it's the first part of the compound, so it should be a non-inflected adjective ("global").
The next step is the so-called "Fugen-s":
http://www.abzv.de/Newsletter/Download-Services/Fugen-s.pdf
Some people may be strongly opposed to a hyphen after a Fugen-s if it's not really necessary. I guess that depends :)
So, you could write: Globalerwärmungsleugner. Or: Globalerwärmungs-Leugner.
Best wishes
That was one of the two points I was trying to make with my own answer that mainly focused on the headline: "konservativ" not necessary because repeated soon afterward and will only make headline longer.
Otherwise, I didn't see any reason not to agree with Irene on what she suggested, except for the last part. I still think the German "Konservative" is too broad because of the different party systems, but that's, of course, entirely up to you.
Considering your three options:
I'd go for the last one. "das Gleiche [I believe G should be capitalized] in Grün" makes me think of two other things first: vegetarians and the (old) police uniforms. Since conservatives denying global warming have little to do with any "green" (eco-friendly attitude) I actually think that may not work at all.
"in einen Topf" could be a witty statement for some cooking-related theme.
"Schublade" = Schubladendenken would probably best match the text from the link you provided (comparing three different groups by accusing them of the same anti-science attitude).
a) Anti-Gentech-Aktivisten und ((konservative)) Klimaskeptiker: das gleiche in Grün?
b) Gehören Gentech-Gegner und ((konservative)) Klimaskeptiker in einen Topf?
c) Gehören Gentech-Gegner und ((konservative)) Klimaskeptiker in eine Schublade?
(In der Überschrift könnte man das "konservative" eventuell weglassen, weil es ja im Fließtext darunter nochmal vorkommt.
Let me first say that my comment to you included: "Still: You're the only one using 'konservativ' correctly (if needed)." So, it's far from an entirely negative statement.
Condescending it is not: I am perplexed. You're telling me you're not much worried about journalists (and I assume that includes what they're writing) but you post an answer to a question about how to phrase a headline in a news piece? That is rather interesting because I simply don't get it.
Maybe I just don't understand what you were really trying to say.
In addition, one of your last discussion entries included "Also, I start to feel that this discussion may not serve the primary purpose of helping Olaf." To me, that sounded like a rather sharp cut-off. I merely explained why I think you should add something to the Treibhauseffekt and you replied to that with a different opinion and that's fine (in fact, it's the reason for having a discussion board).
I'll get out the last comment statement, so as to not confuse anyone.
PS: It may be an assumption (Germans not knowing) but it's based on experience. The other way around is also a big assumption. Depends.
Also, you say that „Germans are generally not that aware of US politics [ff.]“ - now that's quite an assumption, too, which does not seem to marry too well with your preoccupation of journalistic accuracy.
Why - if you know better - don't you simply post an answer that covers any issues previously brought up for discussion? I for my part fail to see any benefit in the continuation of this rather one-sided 'interchange'.
Of course, methane can both deplete the ozon layer and contribute to global warming. That does not mean that global warming is now mainly associated with ozone depletion. These are two different, though possibly related, phenomena.
On a side note: As soon as you start to no longer delimit the term (divding it into anthropogen and natürlich), you will simply have supported the argument that people sceptical of climate change make here: The planet is changing anyway, so why should we care?
The author is apparently drawing a comparison by using the special group of US conservatives which tries to take advantage of every shred of paper that could possibly denounce global-warming theories - or they will simply ignore them.
Our so-called konservatives Lager is not as clear-cut - some may only refer to the CDU (and now to the AfD) here, others may include the FDP. And whether they believe in it or not is another matter.
http://www.klimaretter.info/politik/hintergrund/11149-die-kl...
Because Germans are generally not that aware of US politics, I don't know whether any German equivalent may not just confuse more than it does clarify things.
Otherwise, "Klimaleugner/-skeptiker in der Politik" may actually work here.
1) The "Ozonloch" was caused by CFCs (in German: FCKWs) and was related to UV radiation. Great explanation of the chemical break-down:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/triple_ocr...
This issue is no longer as important as it used to be. Even Greenpeace isn't warning of any ozone-related risks anymore (I should know as I attended the relevant seminar back in university).
Article about it:
http://www.focus.de/wissen/experten/ernst_peter_fischer_/dgs...
2) Greenhouse gases: Responsible for the planet getting warmer in basically the same way a greenhouse has thicker insulated windows.
http://www.wwf.de/themen-projekte/klima-energie/klimawandel/...
http://www.cms.fu-berlin.de/geo/fb/e-learning/pg-net/themenb...
The correct term is "anthropogener Treibhauseffekt" (see also WWF page above) in contrast to "natürlicher Treibhauseffekt". Leaving out a word would be inaccurate and is generally not recommended.
The correct German terminology is "aus dem konservativen Lager/unter den Konservativen". Only Irene seemed to have thought along the same lines.
You can say konservatives Blatt, konservativer Nachrichtensender - but not konservative Leugner.
I don't even know whether I would get in the "konservativ". Being a Republican or Liberal in the US is distinctly different from what we have here. The deniers of global warming can be almost exclusively found on the right side of the political spectrum in the US, although it will be hard to equate them with "rechts" - the party structure in the US is simply different, with basically only two parties. And: not all conservatives are "deniers".
The whole sentence would be something like:
Anti-GVO genauso verfehlt wie Anti-Klimawandel?
By the way @Irene: Having covered the renewable business for years and having watched enough American TV, I should note that "Skeptiker" is too weak of a word for me. They are more like the creationist movement in the US: all staunch and die-hard defenders of their theories.