PSYCHIATRISTS have detected the first case of "climate change delusion" - Writing in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, Joshua Wolf and Robert Salo of our Royal Children's Hospital say this delusion was a "previously unreported phenomenon". "A 17-year-old man was referred to the inpatient psychiatric unit at Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne with an eight-month history of depressed mood . . . He also . . . had visions of apocalyptic events." ....."The patient had also developed the belief that, due to climate change, his own water consumption could lead within days to the deaths of millions of people through exhaustion of water supplies." But never mind the poor boy, who became too terrified even to drink. What's scarier is that people in charge of our Government seem to suffer from this "climate change delusion", too. […]So psychiatrists are treating a 17-year-old tipped over the edge by global warming fearmongers?
Here is Prime Minister Kevin Rudd yesterday, with his own apocalyptic vision: "If we do not begin reducing the nation's levels of carbon pollution, Australia's economy will face more frequent and severe droughts, less water, reduced food production and devastation of areas such as the Great Barrier Reef and Kakadu wetlands."
And here is a senior Sydney Morning Herald journalist aghast at the horrors described in the report on global warming released on Friday by Rudd's guru, Professor Ross Garnaut: "Australians must pay more for petrol, food and energy or ultimately face a rising death toll . . ."
Wow. Pay more for food or die. Is that Rudd's next campaign slogan?
Continue reading Andrew Bolt's Herald Sun blog: Doomed to a fatal delusion over climate change
Did Slim slink away? That's news to me. The scurrilous premise of this post was exposed as cynical and unsubstantiated by the article informing it. Should I have read the original article before commenting? That's a standard around here now? Paul's premise was laughable. As a scientist it is up to him to provide evidence of his new theory, not the doubters, a notion I am sure you all appreciate.
I saw no need, nor had any desire to remain and exchange vexatious personal insults. It serves no purpose. Why have I come back?
I was hoping JM may have written something on the new report where "scientists say they’re seeing more signs of global warming on the frozen continent. New satellite photos show the Wilkins Ice Shelf is even closer to breaking from the peninsula. Experts say the effects of warming there now look irreversible."
I guess it doesn't fit in with the preferred narrative. And it's not like a major ice shelf separating from the Antarctic continent in the middle of winter is a significant environmental event.
Obviously you have comprehension problems Wes George. That would be a start of a list. But if you want to keep deluding yourself, maybe you'll get lucky and someone will write a paper about you.
I'm off to join Slim, whose company at least seems honest and sane, and I'll leave you to hear the sound of your own voice. No, it's not a good look.
Keep calling, but I doubt anyone will care.
Yeah, Louis Wu, certain vociferous posters have slinked away... like Mr. Logic Slim, back to watching their hand puppet shadow show on the cave wall. Others are having conversations with themselves. Not a good look.
No doubt that in a population of 21 million no one would be psychologically effected by constant media bombardment of prophecies of climate apocalypse. That's just common sense.
whoo, hoo?