Alternate title: Bill McKibben explained
o_O
I’ve had about two dozen emails wanting me to carry this from the Sydney Morning Herald:
Mental illness rise linked to climate
Erik Jensen
RATES of mental illnesses including depression and post-traumatic stress will increase as a result of climate change, a report to be released today says.
The paper, prepared for the Climate Institute, says loss of social cohesion in the wake of severe weather events related to climate change could be linked to increased rates of anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress and substance abuse.
As many as one in five people reported ”emotional injury, stress and despair” in the wake of these events.
OK, well then, just a thought or two.
1. The average daily diurnal temperature variation varies greatly with location and latitude and altitude. From Wikipedia: High desert areas typically have the greatest diurnal temperature variations. Low lying, humid areas typically have the least. This explains why an area like the Snake River Plain can have high temperatures of 38°C (100°F) during a summer day, and then have lows of 5-10°C (40-50°F). At the same time, Washington D.C., which is much more humid, has temperature variations of only 8°C (15°F). Source: M. Hackworth “Weather & Climate” course notes, with prior permission
2. Moving from Boston to Tampa Florida for retirement or a job, or even a brief trip to Disney World subjects a human to a climate change from this:
to this:
3. The agreed upon climate change (aka “global warming”) signal over the last century is (according to GISS) is:
About 0.8°C or 1.44°F.
Yes that must be it, that tiny variation over 100 years, an order of magnitude or more smaller than daily and seasonal variation is what’s causing the loss of social cohesion and making people worldwide crazy.
4. Or, random acts of severe weather for which there are no trends:
Yep, case closed.
How many words do the Aborigines of Australia have for crap?
5. On the other hand, maybe they are looking at this the wrong way, from Voxy.co.nz in 2010:
6. By the way, this recent report from the Australian Climate Institute cited in the SMH article is old news. This is recycled crazy from 2008.
Climate change and mental health
Prabhat Kumar Chand* and Pratima Murthy
Introduction
The physical health impacts of climate change, especially infections, allergies and
respiratory and cardiovascular diseases are now well recognized. However, the mental health impact of such change, especially in Asian countries became topical after the Asian tsunami. In this article, we attempt to look at the diverse aspects of climate and mental health: seasonal climate variation and its effect on mental health, extreme weather conditions and their psychological impact and specific climatic disasters and their consequences.
Read the whole report from 2008 from the World Health Organization here:
Sounds familiar, there might be plagiarism afoot, better send in John Mashey. o_O
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So, making greenhouse gas tax payments to appease Al Gore and his crooked buddies on the global warming hoax is now a medical necessity to save the world?
What will they think of next? We’ve already had the alien invasion aspect, now it causes insanity?
Unbelievable scam artists, too bad some people still fall for the propaganda they are spewing, no matter how ridiculous.
This one is so ridiculous that all I can do is laugh.
Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don’t.
I’m going to have some right now…. after I stop laughing.
Yer darn tootin’ global warmin’ causes mental illness! Bullsh*t! (and ad-nauseum)
I had to sit through the ABC (australia) Rural Hour yesterday listening to some “expert” parrot all the most extreme warmist drivel while he was trying to answer questions about this issue. The radio barely survived my frustration! The greatest danger to public mental health is the MSM continuing to push the CAGW meme and then hosting talk back sessions that don’t allow any factual information to be heard :-).
Looking at such news, yes the mental illness is definitely there.
We should not lose sight of this very simple fact:
If you believe BS like this, then you indeed must have a mental illness.
I seem to recall something about reports of people having their mental problems exacerbated by worrying about climate change–perhaps from Australia.
That’s strange considering the The Royal Australian and New Zealand Collage of Psychiatrists’ Congress came out last year and stated:
“Climate change related obsessions and/or compulsions were identified in 28 per cent of patients presenting with obsessive compulsive disorder.
REPLY: Thanks for the tip, included in the main body now – Anthony
The issue of greatest concern is that leftist teachers are preying upon children with stories of climate doom causing mental health issues and taking away their incentive to achieve something in life.
Well, look at the kids of today. They are freaked out with brain washing convincing them the planet is doomed. What have they got to look forward too?
I think they should look seriously to what is happening to our children with all this doom and gloom predictions just to make political hay and/or a fast buck. (Al Gore?)
It’s probably us deniers that are driving them crazy…
I think they may just have jumped the shark with this one. I’d say this is proof that the warmists only have a season or two left before they’re show is canceled.
And don’t forget, denial of climate change already is considered a mental illness.
🙂
Meanwhile, back in the real world suicide rates usually rise with long, dark, cold depressing winters.
Hey Anthony you spelt Aborigines incorrectly in the article.
well, look at what CC has done to Ove…he’s more stressed than ever…
30 Aug: The Conversation: Drowning out the truth about the Great Barrier Reef
MEDIA & DEMOCRACY – Ove Hoegh-Guldberg dives into the media’s coverage of an Australian icon’s future.
One of the most straightforward climate change storylines is the link between global warming and coral reefs such as the Great Barrier Reef.
When our reef waters get too warm, corals sicken (bleach), often causing disease and death. And when the corals go, many of the other organisms go with them. At the current rate of ocean warming, we will soon exceed the critical temperature at which this happens every year, causing the Great Barrier Reef to rapidly degrade…
Why is it then that commentators in the media such as Andrew Bolt and Jamie Walker consistently take a different view and posit, either directly or indirectly, that all those leading experts are fraudulent, dishonest or at best shoddy scientists?…
Could it be that confusing Australians about the risk to our reef is highly prized by the people that fund their operations?…
Let’s take Andrew Bolt. Andrew has been vociferous in his claim that scientists like me are alarmists, even deliberately deceptive.
He wraps us all up in the same blanket: me, Flannery and Garnaut. Quite an honour really, given the eminence of my co-accused.
Apparently, we do it because we are mad, we do it because we are on the take, and we do it because we are zealots!…
If conditions had been as hot on the Great Barrier Reef as in the Western Indian Ocean, similar events would have transpired.
We did fear the worst, but we got lucky, hence the reference to “surprising recovery” when the heat stress was abbreviated by storm activity.
It is hard to see what I got wrong…
It is hard to practice as a humble scientist when powerful columnists like Bolt run amok…
http://theconversation.edu.au/drowning-out-the-truth-about-the-great-barrier-reef-2644
REPLY: What a load of crap, Ove isn’t humble, he barged into and shouted down one of my presentations in Brisbane. He’s a complete egotist. – Anthony
As a lot of mental illnesses are caused by bacterial or viral infections and amoebic infections affecting the brain can someone explain how getting syphilis increases with climate change?
I know they are wrong, the voices tell me so……lol.
Okay, I for one will confess that cognitive dissonance from years of exposure to a load of pseudoscientific BS has undoubtedly increased my stress levels, and therefore possibly encouraged depression. It also frequently tests my anger management skills as I struggle not to destroy the PC / newspaper / whatever I’m reading it on. Fortunately I am still able, with a heroic effort of will, to maintain an almost “normal” façade, which means the men in white coats haven’t come for me yet … 🙂
Another one for the Numberwatch list!
Climate Institute was established by Rupert Murdoch’s relatives and their Poola Foundation, which has since put up another $4 million.
CC-stressed Joe Romm should take note Murdoch was “converted” long ago:
Oct 2006: Age: Jewel Topsfield: Browned off, sceptics turn activists
MARK Wootton is not a typical climate change crusader. A “totally non-political” farmer, with a 5058-hectare sheep and cattle property north of Hamilton, in the Western District, he and his wife, Eve Kantor — Rupert Murdoch’s niece — do not fit the mould of dreadlocked greenies preaching about global warming…
When Ms Kantor’s late brother, Tom Kantor, left the couple with a substantial estate last year, they decided to donate $10 million to establish the Climate Institute…
Mr Wootton says he is encouraged by signs that Mr Murdoch, media baron and former greenhouse sceptic, appears to be a convert. His London Sun has launched a “Go Green with the Sun” campaign, warning global warming could put London underwater.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/browned-off-sceptics-turn-activists/2006/10/22/1161455608870.html
As James Reid observed above, the greatest threat to mental health is the religion of AGW.
I would be interested to see the statistics in mental health before and after Al Gore and our Australian warmistas commenced their scare campaign. If mental health declined subsequent to the warmistas bombardment then I’m sure that we can use their same correlation technique to determine that they are the cause of the decline in mental healthy, if in fact, there is any.
If they can’t take the heat they should emigrate to United Kingdom
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/8730125/Parts-of-Britain-suffer-coldest-summer-for-nearly-two-decades.html
“Helen Waite, a Met Office forecaster, said: “The average temperature for central England this summer has been just 15C – this sort of temperature is normally typical of September.”
“Generally speaking, you would expect to see temperatures of at least 17C for this time of year.”
Here in OZ the ABC mentions climate change every 10 mins, Maybe that’s what driving everyone crazy. No kidding, I would say it comes into to every second ABC program in some way or other. In the last week I’ve heard it linked to diabetes, anti-biotics and now mental illness!! Its evidence scientists are now becoming jealous of the money going that way and looking to get their fair share by linking their research to climate change.
“RATES of mental illnesses including depression and post-traumatic stress will increase”.
NOT AS “a result of climate change” but because we are now being told that we are supposed to suffer these effects after a NATURAL disaster!
I am just so grateful that my pioneering forefathers were able to successfully cope with their adversities without the understanding of sophisticated mental health!