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This is the illusionist in which I, Helen Zoltzman, lie about languages whereabouts. In today's episode, as the climate changes, so does the vocabulary around it.

To amplify concern, to dampen concern, to serve corporate concerns. There's a whole lot going on with it.

Alright, on with the show.

To be honest, I think I'd get rid of most of the words in the climate change conversation. I just quite like to start again.

One of the big problems about working in climate change is that we still have quite a limited vocabulary in terms of how do we talk about this.

And because it's scary, because it's abstract, we have all those extra challenges about how are we going to talk about this anyway?

Alice Bell here has to talk about it though, because she's director of communications at the climate charity possible.

And the author of the new book, Can We Save the Planet?

Climate change has been allowed to stay a bit dormant in terms of language change and just culture generally, because we've been avoiding talking about it.

And I'd say that we are generally quite inarticulate when it comes to climate change. But we have seen the power of new phrases helping unlock some new conversations in the last year in particular.

Climate crisis, I think, is one of them. In May 2019, the Guardian newspaper announced that they were updating their style guide to replace the term climate change with climate emergency crisis or breakdown.

Guardian has said it's their style guide now to say that and to say global heating rather than global warming.

What's the difference between global heating and global warming?

I'm not entirely convinced that there is that. I'm a bit of a global, I'm not a global heating skeptic.

I believe it is happening. However, I'm just skeptical that that phrase is going to catch on, but we'll see. I still think it looks a little bit odd.

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