Best One I've Heard

If climate change skeptics are "Deniers", which deftly conjures up the Holocaust and the class of people who would be willing to ignore historical fact to defend the Nazi regime, what do you call those who believe in the science behind AGW? "Warmers" makes them sound like a set of mittens, and "alarmists" is, lets face it, boring. The editorial in today's Investor's Business Daily provides the best answer I've heard to that question so far: their term is "Greenshirts", which also plays up the Nazi angle.

The rest of the editorial is crap, mind you, but I like to give credit where credit is due.

A Minor Etymological Point

While climate change realists have a nick-name for climate change skeptics--"Deniers"-- which neatly links their cause to those people who claim the Holocaust didn't happen, they did not until recently have a corresponding word for us, the vast majority of Humanity that understands the science and the need for action. But Lo!, a term has emerged: Global Warmers, or "Warmers" for short, as in:

The BBC reporter you cite is actually a devote warmer out to discredit our side...
(Tom Harris, January 12th)

...which is pretty damn lame, if you ask me. I feel like I'm being compared to a pair of mittens. Not insulting at all.

PS. If anyone is wondering where my earlier post went to, it was based on some unverified rumors re. climate change denier Timothy Ball that I decided eventually didn't warrent a full write-up. So naturally I hit the publish button by accident. The origonal quotation comes from here, though, about seven or eight comments down.