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Holy shit, what made you think anyone will understand that abbreviation?
I don't know... I'd never seen the acronym before, but it seemed fairly obvious in context... (as Anthropogenic Global Climate Change, obviously), especially given that “global warming” seems to be falling out of use due to it being at the same time too specific and not enough...
Er, well... it's now year 2025, AGCC has been scientifically documented and publicly talked about for decades, and is now arguably the biggest existential threat to humanity?
You know... as seen in increasingly dangerous storm systems year after year, rising global temps year after year, more wildfires, more droughts, rising ocean acidification, rising difficulty growing crops, the holocene extinction accelerating... things like that? All are directly impacted by AGCC, to name a few.
Getting harder and harder to live under a rock, tell you hwat.
I'm not questioning how real anthropogenic global climate change is. I'm questioning your decision of using just the initials assuming everyone understand automatically.
When I googled "AGCC meaning" the suggestions were:
AGenesis of the Corpus Callosum
Alderney Gambling Control Commission
Arab Gulf Cooperation Council
Aberdeen & Grampian Chamber of Commerce Action for a Global Climate Community
Agencia Comercial Spirits ltd (AGCC)
I didn't assume. People are going to understand and misunderstand terms no matter what acronym or definition is used, like CC or GCC. Or they'll deny, get it twisted, whatever. Or ask a curious followup, as you did.
Well, context is king. If you asked what it meant within that sentence, then it might be able to narrow things down better. We all do this all the time, of course.
To avoid misunderstandings wouldn't be better to use the actual words instead of acronyms?
For the reader, I would think mostly "yes."
For the writer, I recall him being focused moreso on the main thought he wanted to express. And his thoughts have been pretty scattered indeed these days, focus harder to come by...
Anyway, I think that's enough of all that. Ciao!
Not OP - I've been exposed to Climate Change news to the point of possible depression but I've never seen the concept referred to as AGCC before too
One way that serves a purpose is in making it clear that this isn't just some natural variance going on, for example in taking on the hand-wavers who like to say 'oh, it all goes in cycles; nothing to worry about!'
So GCC sometimes gets appended with an "A" for "anthropomorphic" to make it crystal clear that (just like the Holocene Extinction) it's largely (or wholly) man-made. Personally I tend to fluctuate between terms, mainly based on recency bias and just whatever my naked ape brain happens to settle on. :P