(Image credit: Shutterstock) How is the climate changing? But climate change also causes seasonal periods of extreme cold. Overall, the Earth is warming up because of human-caused climate change. The advent of satellite technology in the 1970s provided an explosion of data, covering everything from ice extent at the poles to sea surface temperature to cloud coverage.
Record-keeping of things like land temperature began to improve in the late 1800s, and ship captains began to keep a wealth of ocean-based weather data in their logs. The most recent changes in the climate - since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution - have also been tracked directly. As the ice gets older and more compressed, the record can become fuzzy, Mosley-Thompson said, but newer ice can provide a year-by-year look at what the climate was doing. And ice can be chock-full of information: Not only do glaciers capture atmospheric gases in the form of air bubbles, they trap dust and other sediments, pollen grain, volcanic ash and more. (The oldest cores drilled from ocean sediments date back 65 million years, according to The Smithsonian Institution.) Tree records are relatively short but incredibly detailed. Ocean sediments don't carry season-by-season or even year-by-year levels of detail, but they can provide blurrier pictures of climate dating back millions of years, Mosley-Thompson told Live Science. Words We're Watching talks about words we are increasingly seeing in use but that have not yet met our criteria for entry.Different types of natural records can reveal different clues about the climate of the past. Bromwich quotes Lisa Nakamura, a professor in the Department of American Cultures at the University of Michigan, who says, “People talk about the attention economy - when you deprive someone of your attention, you’re depriving them of a livelihood.” The objective behind canceling is often to deny that attention, so that the person loses cultural cachet. To cancel someone publicly often requires broadcasting that act, which then makes the target of one’s canceling a subject of attention. There is a performative aspect to canceling, one that (it could be argued) paradoxically amplifies that which it seeks to squelch, if only for the moment. As Jonah Engel Bromwich writes in the New York Times, the word echoes the trend of on-demand subscriptions of content, from which a user can opt out just as easily as they opt in. The cancellation is akin to a cancelled contract, a severing of the relationship that once linked a performer to their fans. As troubling information comes to light regarding celebrities who were once popular, such as Bill Cosby, Michael Jackson, Roseanne Barr, and Louis C.K.-so come calls to cancel such figures. The term has been credited to black users of Twitter, where it has been used as a hashtag. The idea of canceling-and as some have labeled it, cancel culture-has taken hold in recent years due to conversations prompted by #MeToo and other movements that demand greater accountability from public figures. The reason for cancellation can vary, but it usually is due to the person in question having expressed an objectionable opinion, or having conducted themselves in a way that is unacceptable, so that continuing to patronize that person’s work leaves a bitter taste. The act of canceling could entail boycotting an actor’s movies or no longer reading or promoting a writer’s works. To cancel someone (usually a celebrity or other well-known figure) means to stop giving support to that person. There is no long and winding process of penance. Listen to disenfranchised voices when they have a concern, learn, acknowledge, move on. He’s certainly aware that public opinion has soured on him this year, and that more people advocate for “ canceling” him every day.
West may not possess much self-control, but he is more self-aware than his detractors give him credit for. He’s going to make people of color running for president stop what they’re doing to own him. He’s going to make the very people he offended do “the hard work” of canceling him.
2019Įven now, he doesn’t seem to have the decency to resign. Victoria Hou, The Columbia Daily Spectator, 6 Feb. (Whether or not they are actually “ cancelled” is a different matter entirely.) If you don’t know, there’s discourse about how Cardi B and Nicki Minaj should be cancelled for previous homophobic and transphobic comments.
What Does 'Canceling' Mean Today?īut in the latest use of the word, you can cancel people-in particular, celebrities, politicians, or anyone who takes up space in the public consciousness.
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