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US rebuked over 'climate change' controversy at Antarctic meeting

The US did not want to use the term "climate change" at a major Antarctic meeting, instead preferring to focus on "specific" environmental changes.

Its stance was rebuked by other countries, including France, which described it as a "worrying development" that risks undermining credible science.

Conservationists say "editing words" out of a report won't alter the real impact of climate change.

US rebuked over 'climate change' controversy at Antarctic meetinghttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-19/united-states-accused-of-climate-change-edit-antarctic-report/106818680Open linkView original on lemmy.world

To be fair, they did use a Sharpie to change the weather pattern once 🙄

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Hopefully US will just get offended and stop participating. Until now every time they did it allowed sane countries to move things forward.

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Even this article has weasel words. We have moved well past the “scientists say” stage and we are at the “climate change” or “human created climate change” stage.

I wonder what the Australian government position said, probably wimpish.

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At some point they should just be barred from speaking at all

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