Climate change denial is undermining the efforts to act on or adapt to climate change, and exerts a powerful influence on politics of global warming and the manufactured global warming controversy.
More than 90% of papers that are skeptical on climate change originate from right-wing think tanks. Climate change denial has been associated with the fossil fuels lobby, the Koch brothers, industry advocates, conservative think tanks and conservative alternative media, often in the United States. The conspiracy to undermine public trust in climate science is organized by industrial, political and ideological interests. Several social science studies have analyzed these positions as forms of denialism, pseudoscience, or propaganda.
To a lesser extent, climate change denial can also be implicit when people accept the science but fail to reconcile it with their belief or action. Ĭlimate change denial includes doubts to the extent of how much climate change is caused by humans, its effects on nature and human society, and the potential of adaptation to global warming by human actions. Many who are climate change denialers self-label themselves as "climate change skeptics", which is a misapplied description. Those promoting denial commonly use rhetorical tactics to give the appearance of a scientific controversy where there is none. For diaeresis cases, the dots did not derive from lines but were introduced as dots originally.Climate change denial or global warming denial is dismissal or unwarranted doubt that contradicts the scientific consensus on climate change. Eventually, the e got reduced to the vertical lines which got further reduced in typesetting to a pair of dots. For the three common German letters, they derived from a superscripted e, which in blackletter and even more in Kurrent handwriting resembles a pair of vertical lines. This is due to the origin of the tremata. It is only truly appropriate in cases where the trema shows that two letters are to be pronounced distinctly. Umlaut, as you might have guessed, stems from the German word which means changed sound.ĭiaeresis is also Greek, meaning division or separation. In case you’re interested: Trema originates from Ancient Greek and is a name based solely on the shape of the diacritic. Ï and ë would only get names that derive from Punkt in some way. Note again, that any Strich-type variant is only applicable, if you’re talking about ä/ö/ü. So it’s perfectly acceptable to say A mit Trema.Ĭolloquially, the dots also have a variety of other names derived from their shape: Punkte, Doppelpunkt, Pünktchen, Striche, Stricherl, Strichelchen and more. The word Trema can also be used in the case of umlauts. (In the Alzeÿ-case, Diärese would be outright wrong.) Note that German generally prefers the word Trema where Umlaut is not applicable, while English prefers diaeresis for the naïve-case and trema only for distinct non-umlaut letters. This also occurs in generic German names ( Hoëcker) and old-fashioned spelling ( Alzeÿ). If you’re talking about a word like naïve, or the Albanian letter ë, the only correct terminology is I/E mit Trema. These dots, usually called trema (or diaeresis) in English, are called Umlaut in German (yes, this is the same word as above for the vowels themselves) if and only if they are used to signify Umlaute.
What the dots used to produce them called?Ī.k.a. If you’re just talking about a specific one, it’s Ä, Ö or Ü, just like they’re pronounced. If there is, for any reason, a need to specify that you’re talking about and only about the three dotted ones, the terminology is Umlaute. Germans would consider them vowels just like the other five ( y is a variant of either ü or i) and the diphthongs ( ei, au, eu, ui) German language has. I want to know, do these sounds like ä, ö, ü have certain names in German language?
There are some twenty different vowel sounds in English if you include diphthongs (and there’s no real reason not to). And there are a lot more vowel sounds that just the five ‘standard’ ones. In English, the sounds like a, e, i, o, u are called vowel sounds.Įrm, technically true, but you’re forgetting y.
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