Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t JoNova – a psychology handbook produced by the Australian Psychological Society recommends people suffering debilitating distress and helplessness about impending climate doom can recover their ability to function in society by becoming climate activists.
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It is common for people to have very strong feelings about climate change. The reality is actually very frightening. It is not just the phenomenon and threat per se, but the implications of climate change for individuals, human society, all other species, and the planet, that make this such a frightening, confronting and
existential threat and concern. People can feel anxious, distressed, helpless, pessimistic, guilty, angry and stressed, amongst other feelings (Clayton et al., 2017a). How people respond to these feelings is very important. People can react in many unhelpful ways – e.g., by trying to minimise the threat, distract themselves and blame others, or by becoming helpless and resigned to the disaster. A more useful response is to anticipate, identify and manage these feelings so that we can properly accept the reality of climate change and not avoid it. Psychologists call this a skill of emotional self-regulation and it’s an important part of climate adaptation and coping.Learning to cope with the feelings we have about climate change ensures that:
- We don’t try to avoid the problem in order to avoid the feelings
- We don’t become overwhelmed by these feelings or burn-out
- We can keep functioning well in our everyday lives.
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Model the pro-environmental behaviours that you would like other people to take up
What we see people doing matters. Our brains are highly tuned to noticing others’ behaviours and copying them. This happens automatically and often unconsciously.
- Make your pro-environmental behaviour very visible so others can notice it.
- Leave behind as many ‘behavioural traces’ as you can. These are physical signs of the behaviour you engage in, like your bike helmet sitting on your desk signaling that you ride your bike to work.
- Transmit the meaning of your pro-environmental behaviour as well. People are always
seeking the meaning of behaviour and actively interpreting what they see. By explaining the reason for your actions, you give other people another reason to copy them (Harré, 2011).- Attach stickers to cars and letterboxes and other places that communicate your pro- environmental behaviours, like using solar power or a greywater system.
- People are more likely to copy models they see are rewarded (Bandura & Walters, 1977). Highlighting the satisfaction of engaging in a sustainable behaviour is one way of making the reward (in this case, the satisfied feeling) more visible, and therefore more likely to be copied. Also, research evidence very powerfully tells us that internal, self-motivating, reasons for doing things are much more influential and sustainable than external rewards and benefits (Deci & Ryan, 2013). And again, we can see that there are multiple benefits of action, both in reducing our footprint and giving us a sense of inner satisfaction.
Promote norms that ‘everybody’s doing it’ and ‘it’s normal to be green’
- Provide explicit statements about the pro-environmental behaviours that people are already doing.
- The most useful norms are descriptive norms that say ‘everyone’s doing this’ and ‘It’s normal to do this’.
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Challenge climate change denial when you hear it
Psychological research on science denial provides a model, based on inoculation theory, for how to debunk myths about climate change (often spread by misinformation) which cause confusion and uncertainty in the community (Cook & Lewandowsky, 2012).
- Take care not to repeat the myth up front when you are debunking it. This can often reinforce it! Instead, start with the facts.
- Familiarise yourself with the five different
techniques deniers often use to distort facts:
Fake experts, logical fallacies, impossible
expectations, cherry-picking evidence, and conspiracy theories (Diethelm & McKee, 2009).- Use the Fact-Myth-Fallacy approach to correct misinformation (see box below)
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I’m personally horrified that people who are suffering genuine distress because of their climate delusions are being encouraged to engage more fully with the source of their distress. I’m not a psychologist but that doesn’t seem a sensible route to a cure.
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I think I will complain to the Health Care Commissioner in my local area. I have always been skeptical of psychology and this is real evidence of what could actually be abuse of their patients. No health care practitioner of any kind should be exhorting the people they are supposedly taking care of to undertake such actions.
I stopped reading when I got to “Model.”
Matthew Thompson
Funny that, so did I.
But we are ‘reacting unhelpfully’ by minimising the threat!
No!
Instructing people who are already obsessed with climate change to continue with this obsession and how to increase it is the WORST, most harmful thing anyone working in mental health can do.
Sara
Encouraging them to actually research the data might be a better route.
But then the objective of sending everyone utterly insane over the concept of dangerous climate change is an accepted means of persuasion by the green socialists.
Yes, HotScot and it needs to be stopped. There is no benefit to it at all.
” People can feel anxious, distressed, helpless, pessimistic, guilty, angry and stressed…”
Good sex will cure those feelings very quickly.
Probably not in this case – sex might lead to pregnancy and the creation of a new carbon emitting resource consuming human – an intolerable additional burden for our already overburdened planet.
Avoiding pregnancy either requires the use of a disposable plastic product which could contribute to the floating island of junk in the Pacific, or the use of ecosystem damaging hormones which will eventually be excreted into wastewater, poisoning the seas and hurting the dolphins.
Seriously, the pill is THE major source of unwanted exposure to hormone mimicking molecules in the environnement.
Another evanescent scare.
One day while walking on the heath
I spotted a molecule
that had strayed into the environment.
With a tap and a grind I adhered it to my shoe,
and hopped home where with careful eye and tweezers,
I beheld it again, pressed it between pages of a book.
But a precocious child picked up the book
and thumbed the pages, releasing the molecule
and the wishes and hopes I had placed there also.
They may have been gathered up
by a roving roomba vacuum cleaner
upon which sits
a cat
Cats do not sit on roombas. Vacuum Cleaners are the hereditary enemies of cats.
Cats on Roomabas. Not to be confused with temperature hockey sticks which do not actually exist.
Think of the saplings.
Lucky old you!!!! 😉
Good sex does cure a lot of anxiety issues, but then, so does a good meal in the company of friends.
I’m a good cook too!
Tom in Florida
Your house for the WUWT jamboree this year then? 🙂
Food only, OK. Good sex, you are on your own.
Tom in Florida
Food is fine.
Good sex is rarely available on your own. 🙂
Ditto.
I expect just getting a date would be a Herculean task for these folks, nevermind even getting to first base.
Climate alarmists have a specific term for promoting renewables: ‘climate optimism‘. They hype renewables because, otherwise, their climate pessimism turns them to inaction. With all this bad climate news they keep inventing, pessimism would be the norm.
Either something is really free or it isn’t renewable
simple-touriste
The Sun is free and non renewable.
“Renewable” as in:
“exploiting the resource causes no additional depletion of said ressource”
Sure. That’s the way we do it nowadays. Take a perfectly good word and stand by while someone redefines it. Like “articulate.” As in: “Simple-touriste, you seem clean and articulate to me.”
So, what in nature is renewable?
So Matthew, what is “renewable”?
simple-touriste
Too late, mate.
Do you worry about hydrogen depletion?
simple-touriste
“Do you worry about hydrogen depletion?”
In what context?
(This should be fun folks).
Obviously Sun depletion. Duh
Pure psychological warfare, meant to control, and motivate Believers to act. The desperation is becoming palpable.
Join the New Religion and you will be Saved!!! from whatever “destruction” is just around the corner.
Well, you certainly won’t be saved from harassment. It’s simply that the harassment changes from attacks to demands for tithes.
And Al Gorebull puts out another begging letter!
They are using the same strategy as Scientology does to keep their congregation as victims.
It is definitely mental abuse by this psychologist.
Gallup survey: 36 issues mentioned, not one of them is climate change July 22, 2018
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/07/gallup_survey_36_issues_mentioned_not_one_of_them_is_climate_change.htm
Still trying desperately to recruit the consciously impaired and whoever gives a sh**.
Telling someone with a phobia that their dreaded obsession is a real threat seems a bit counterproductive, if not sadistic quackery.
If someone has a dread fear of spiders, learning to identify common, and uncommon species, and learning that very few species, and rare ones at that, are actually poisonous, is the more usual means of dealing with a phobia. For a bit more vigorous program, being in the same room with, and eventually handling spiders such as some varieties of tarantula, is a treatment for spider phobia.
Hmm. Perhaps an intensive exposure to WUWT might serve as the first treatment. But how you manage the second for CCP is beyond me.
i happily whack spider with bare hands if theyre on me or on clothes bedding etc
we have redbacks and funnelwebs and a few others that make you sore and sorry, no stress.deal with em. huntmans are fine till they start to cross the cieling above the bed;-0 them its vacuum time, sayonara!
but no fn way would i handle a tarantula
If you are in Oz, you have a good many more poisonous spiders than in Texas or California. There are only two that are dangerous and reasonably common, the brown recluse and the black widow. Australia has a well deserved reputation for poisonous beasties.
Tom Halla
Join us in the UK. About the most poisonous thing we have is an adder, and that’s only to the very young and those with pre existing health conditions. They are also extremely hard to find.
And Blackadder is worse!
Just for fun…
Great video.
I just met a couple from Queensland who have moved to Florida. I asked them why, Queensland has such beautiful beaches. He said true but everything there is trying to kill you.
Oz, don’t whack them, they are our friends. I live in the Aussie bush (literally) and have received many bites, but I leave them alone. The giant huntsman is scary if you have a phobia, but if they’re in the house, I just put them in a plastic container and evict them. Never seen a tarantula.
Yes, learning as much as possible about what scares you is always a good idea. I was terrified of spiders for no good reason until I started reading up on them. I still do NOT want one as a pet, however, and I will NOT pick one up, period. But there are several that winter over under my house, feeding on Little Black Ants and moths and other obnoxious critters, so I’m good with that.
Still not going to pick them up.
I always picked up daddy longlegged spiders. Used to let them crawl on my arms, etc. I owned a tarantula but did not handle it. She was a timid spider and frightened easily. I love wolf spiders but relocate them outside if I find one in the middle of my floor at 2 am. They need to know their boundaries! I’m about to relocate an orbweaver that hangs down outside my kitchen window a lot—I need to paint that part of my house. Jumping spiders do get smashed if on the ceiling. I draw the line at spiders landing in my hair! I might add that at 6 years of age, I threw a fit and cried because my mom would not let me take on the tarantula we found in the middle of the road while vacationing in Texas. I started early.
This is also an example of teaching people to overcome their fears. I did not fear snakes or bugs because my brothers liked to throw them at me when we were young. Learning to like the bugs and snakes took all the fun out of their activities. Had I indulged the fear, life as a child would have been miserable.
There’s a paper wasp nest at eye-level on my front porch this summer. These guys aren’t at all aggressive, I walk within 2 feet of it almost daily and they don’t even react. As long as you don’t disturb their nest, they’ll almost always leave you be. And they’re good to have around the yard, especially if you garden. They catch the juvenile grasshoppers and caterpillars before they grow up and start chewing big holes in your plants.
I am a fan of wolfies, they prowl around the edges of the rooms in my home and eat other insects and web spiders. When they get too large, we simply put them outside where they then enjoy a long and happy life.
I have no fear of snakes, as long as I can see them. I do have a lot of brush near a large drainage ditch at the rear of my property and when I am working in that area I always carry my K-Bar just in case. I don’t want my wife to come home to see a very large python with extended belly laying next to a pair of my shoes.
Tom in Florida
Like I said, join us in the UK where creepie crawlies are not a threat. Err….other than politicians but I’m going to mount a campaign to have them shot on sight as vermin.
We all know they’re vermin, we just don’t have a law allowing us to shoot them, yet.
Mwaahahahahah!
Sorry to be pedantic, but spiders are ‘venomous’ not necessarily ‘poisonous’.
‘Venom’ is ‘poisonous’, but poison is not venomous.
And, as with any poison, envenomated or ingested, dosage is important.
Every spider is venomous (its how they catch prey). Its simply that most are not dangerous to large animals like us.
I was using “poisonous” in the Paracelsus sense of “a risk to people at that dose”, barring an allergy.
While it may be pedantic, I agree. That’s a pet peeve of mine, having done reptile shows for schools. It’s an important distinction. ( A very general rule of thumb with animals is venom is injected, poison ingested or absorbed through the skin.)
Chiefly because most spiders’ “fangs” are too small to pierce human skin deep enough to reach the bloodstream. They can still cause inflammation and a nasty sore for a few days, but can’t fully envenomate.
How irresponsible can you get. This is probably the most effective way to feed the anxiety and confirm the fears. This is like someone with a fear of Ghosts, taking advice from a Ghost hunter.
When it comes to ”fake experts” these guys have them in abundance.
“How irresponsible can you get. This is probably the most effective way to feed the anxiety and confirm the fears.”
I think that’s the idea. They think getting you scared will motivate you.
Well, just what IS the difference between the Fires of Hell and Runaway Global Warming?
I see absolutely zero difference between the threat of eternal damnation for not converting to monotheism, and the threat of existing on a planet where the alleged forecast will have the daily temperature range somewhere near that of the Great Nefud Desert on the Saudi peninsula – and equally barren, too.
ref the Bike Helmet signal.
Most of the Greenies are hypocrites. They would drive a smokey old banger to work and still place a bike helmet on their desk.
They need a bigger car to safely transport their bike. Duh!
Former British PM David Cameron hilariously “rode his bike” – but had a car follow carrying his briefcase.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4953922.stm
How Stalinesque! Recruit the Fruit-Loops to your cause, yet more Useful Idiots to contend with!
Alan the Brit
But easy to mobilise. Hence, Greenpeace.
How about ‘suck it up’ or the very helpful ‘get a life’? If that doesn’t work use your socialized medicine benefits and relax with some benzodiazepines.
…People can feel anxious, distressed, helpless, pessimistic, guilty, angry and stressed, …
What do I do if I feel anxious, distressed, helpless, pessimistic, guilty, angry and stressed about the collapse of science into a fraudulent scam which is damaging the lives of everyone on the planet?
well do NOT go to any pshrink thats in with this mob for a good start;-)
Have some chocolate ice cream or a pizza with everything, after a bout of throwing darts at a dartboard with Mikey Mann’s mug shot on it.
Oh, sorry – I forgot to include watch George Carlin’s “save the planet” video several times.
Laughter is always the best medicine for anxiety, stress, helplessness, pessimism, guilt, anger and recognizing that legitimate science has been corrupted into a false religion that screws its adherents three ways past Sunday.
dodgy geezer
Join me in the pub. There are many, many more threats to civilisation discussed there than climate change.
Some of them are actually reasonable.
dodgy,
I can’t speak for all of science, but the Physics has been through much worse. It’s sad for the present generation of climate scientists that will be buried in the detritus of internet-enabled, click-bait, headline-grubbing , alarmist, misdirected bloggers, but so it goes. Perhaps in a hundred years, climate science will be installed to a respectable status.
The simplest solution to this media driven phobia is to provide the client with a list of the respectable sceptic web sites and urge the doing of the homework. The downside to this is that a course in anger management may be required.
For my part, when I meet people with the phobia I tell them that so long as their kettle boils at 100C they have nothing to worry about as the Earth sweats to keep cool just like they do and has done that for millions of years to an accuracy of roughly around +/- 3% on the Kelvin scale.
If the CAGWers and Warmians and Greenbeans were required to live through the cold season from start (September) to finish (April, but it was June this year) with no external source of heat, no wood-based fire in a fireplace, no electricity, how long does anyone think they’d last?
The Phobics need a harsh lesson in reality. They take all modern stuff for granted, with no thought to the source of it or how reliable it is when generated by carbon-based fuels. Take that away from them, and watch them flounder.
The cure for heroin adiction is …. more heroin.
Well with enough heroin, one stops having an addiction problem.
But the family has a casket choice problem.
“More cow bell!”
“Familiarise yourself with the five different
techniques deniers often use to distort facts:
Fake experts, logical fallacies, impossible
expectations, cherry-picking evidence, and conspiracy theories”
These are favorites of those who believe in CAGW. A classic case of projection. “Fake experts” like Lewandowsky and Al Gore, just to name two out of many. “Logical fallacies” like the ad hominem ‘denier’ used in their very press release and ad populum used by saying there is a consensus. “Impossible expectations” like ‘we can be 100% renewable’. “Cherry-picking evidence” like starting arctic sea ice charts when the sea ice at a peak in the 1970’s and not when the data actually started. “Conspiracy theories” like ‘Big Oil is funding denial’.
“Take care not to repeat the myth up front when you are debunking it. This can often reinforce it! Instead, start with the facts.”
Oh, how I wish they would do that! If they did, they wouldn’t believe in CAGW much longer. I always find it interesting that the side that is asking, in fact begging, for debate is considered unscientific but the side that works overtime not to debate is considered scientific. CAGW skeptics — deniers in their ad hominem lingo — would love to start with facts. Facts are why I don’t believe in CAGW, not some Big Oil conspiracy theory.
I did mention sadistic quackery a bit earlier. Raising a fear, and then making a living off exploiting that fear. It is more than a bit unethical, but damn common.
It’s effective.
The unscrupulous will create then exploit fears. This is how the elderly get suckered out of huge sums of money; these things hit the news every couple years.
This psychologist needs to have her license revoked.
Theologians have been practicing this art for millennia.
Search for lost sheep / Gather a flock / Fleece the flock
…probably all began with some wily Mesopotamian goatherd who realized it was easier and more lucrative to herd goatherds.
rocketscientist
Shot his goats, created a shortage of goat milk and meat, raised the price, and he didn’t have as many goats to look after.
Easy life. If you’re a socialist goat herder.
Only to a religion hating atheist would think the words “fleece the flock” be added. I suppose you hate huge groups based on the bad behavior of a few a lot, since it’s a 100% emotional response.
People always feel psychologically stressed when being brainwashed.
Only by giving in and accepting doublethink can the pressure be relieved
“He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself.”
“He loved Big Brother.”
Orwell 1984
some of the most depressing lines in literature
rocketscientist
Introduced to it by a wacky 70’s English teacher. I though the guy was a nutter, other than he was a decent bloke.
But it’s all come flooding back to me over the past few years. I just wish I hadn’t been such a lazy good for nothing student.
I think we all missed so many opportunities when we were young.
Kids naturally have no knowledge and no experience; so we don’t know what mess we are making of our future.
Good parents and good teachers make a huge difference to one’s life and self-worth. Those who try to corrupt the mind of the young are a pox on society, the worst of the worst.
Greg Cavanagh
Sage words.
But we can’t choose our parents.
Yep I know. My point was that few of us have been given the best opportunity for our lives. The majority of us are playing catch up, and simply doing the best we can with where we find ourselves.
I had so much more potential than what I ended up doing. My dad was a soldier, my mum completed grade 9 then went to work in retail. So they couldn’t help me with my homework.
I was lazy at school and dropped out of Math2 and physics because it was difficult, and I figured I wouldn’t need either of them. I was of course wrong.
I did do civil engineering by correspondence. Work all day and then study all night. You can be sure that was hard, having no other students to talk to. I just had to read the books and try to figure it all out on my own.
Kids can spot pure hypocrisy…
The folks they are aiming at are (not the best word but the best we have) Paranoid.
They are over-reacting to small external stimuli and excitations. They are entirely focussed on something, it dominates every thought, they resist all attempts to change that thinking and it is a vicious circle of self reinforcement.
Classic Chronic Depression.
Brought on and exacerbated by something they are eating/drinking and NOT doing.
They are eating/drinking something that is inherently bad because it is used to relieve stress and shouldn’t be so used. sugar.
This stress sources are manifold: marriage issues, finance, work etc or simply, they are lonely.
Comfort Food. yes/no
In a way, the advice is good – it’s telling them to get out and meet people.
That’s all it takes
Stress and living at a remote location nearly killed me and DID kill my kid-brother.
DO NOT take it lightly or laugh.
I ‘do’ loud music and bounce around like a loon.
It helps my weight, blood pressure, blood sugar levels and brings people to come join me = self confidence and is NOT chemically enhanced.
win win win win
here’s two songs (oh you lucky people) Somewhat cross threaded and both dedicated to folks stuck in the ice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGUM2CC0IWI
When you see the song title you will rush to kiss me…you will.
Lyric slightly battered=
‘Cause the Arctic is cold
And your ship runs dry
You’ll never see or hear the crashing of the sea
The temper(atures) rise, that stops all time
— You have a strange perception of the truth
Also:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhJ1Ye-5soE
You’ll understand – and from Australia.
haha. There IS something out there with an EPIC sense of humour.
mwah xx
play them both big……….
and the next track in the playlist off the second track is a beaut
‘You’re never gonna reach me”
there *is* Magic in this world – keep a clear head and go look for some.
Don’t let me steal it all.
This appears to me to be a form of proselytizing for a religious order. Convince yourself that you are following the True Path by repeating all the mantras or commandments. Convert or die, something like that. Do NOT think for yourself. Follow the True Path and You Will Be Saved!
This is the most disgusting thing I’ve seen in a long time. My question for these shrinks, whom I would not trust with discussing a bout of sadness over the loss of a beloved pet (normal!!) is “Who died and made you God, bozo?”
No, I do not think they mean well at all. You don’t encourage people to continue down the road to self-destruction. You try to steer them off that course. This “handbook” is promoting denial of reality and self-destruction.
Who came up with this heinous trash? What will these clowns tell their anxiety-ridden patrons (no, not patients) when the “pending doom of climate change” does NOT happen and the expected End Date gets pushed further and further out, ad nauseum? Are they going to claim any responsibility when/if people start jumping off cliffs** in droves because they were betrayed/lied to by their shrinks?
This is just disgusting.
**If you can’t tell that ‘jumping off cliffs’ is a metaphor, you have a problem, compadre.
My ex was a former member/victim of a rather large “religion” that starts with S. She still rather held to some of the beliefs of the group, even with the realization it was a means of extracting as much from the adherents as possible.
Some of the green blob act in a similar way.
Not only that, if they follow that “mental health advice” of trying to save the world by reducing their “carbon footprint”, they will inevitably read more and more “green” propaganda (to be sure to do the right thing) and they will inevitably be informed at some point that their meaningless gestures are, well, meaningless. They don’t even have a small impact on the world’s “carbon pollution”. They have an uber-minuscule impact, like zero impact.
Like most forms of recycling, it’s ritual penance for alleged eco-sins, but with no possibility of absolution.
reckon there mightbe a few sticker placing greenloons getting some abuse in short order;-)
and these fwits quote lewpapers work as a guide?
omg!
used to be the ‘ciatrists were the nutters and the ‘cologists the good guys
now theyr all stark raving barmy
the worried gullible dont need their delusions reinforced they need a dose of reality, turn OFF msm and the agw meme and get a life in the real world
When my old TV went dead, I did not replace it. I may never replace it.
I can think of nothing worse right now than a constant barrage of info or news specifically aimed at stirring the anxieties of people who are already stressed by everyday demands. What the author of that booklet says and does is inexcusable by itself. That a psych association would endorse it makes worse.
Many years ago, one of my children accidentally put the TV out with a badly aimed water bomb. I calmly put it out in the garage and they waited for me to replace it…and waited. The country school asked students to watch some program or other and write an essay on it. This, the kids thought would force me to get a TV. I assigned them essays and sent notes to their teachers (6 kids). They got excellent mark’s on their essays and I never bothered to buy one.
How do you watch hockey?
Mine has an off knob. It functions well for playing DVDs of programs that are worth watching and provides background noise that improves my ……..oh, shiny….what was I saying? (Maybe not as well as I think!!)
A lot of the things that is described under the Model the pro-environmental behaviours that you would like other people to take up is nothing but virtue signalling. You put your helmet on my desk so people can see how concerned I am about the environment and by the way I am really healthy. Attaching stickers is also another way to virtue signal.
You -may- be somewhat fit from bike riding, but “health” and “fitness” are not the same thing at all and their intersection is limited to poorly designed observational studies that amount to data massaging. Ditto “health” attained from kale, non-GMO’s, gluten-free, veganism, etc.
The bottom line here is virtue-signaling and attempting to “normalize” the Left’s anointed behaviors. IOW, recruitment of people suffering from generalized anxiety disorder.
“poorly designed observational studies”
gave us:
“the ‘flu’ vaccine protects as much from influenza and non influenza flu syndromes”
I love this one:
The “facts” include accepting as Gospel, climate forecasts that have not yet happened and in most cases, won’t happen for many years. Not only are future predictions elevated to “fact” status, even predictions generated by unfalsifiable virtual modeling computer programs have the presumption of fact-hood for CAGW alarmists. Watch almost any Potholer54 YouTube video for examples.
If they really want to sell the product, they should come up with a good, catchy song, like The Greenican Rag”.
“First you get down
On your knees”…
etc. It would be awesome, especially the part that goes “virtue signal, virtue signal virtue signal!”
The advice is laughable, but predictable, engage in virtue signalling and you will feel better (the bike helmet on the desk).
I’m sure Al Gorerythem uses it on his desk after his cycle ride to work every day.
Reduce, reuse, recycle, repair …
So, there are people who don’t throw stuff out because they think they can reuse it or repair it. Those people are called hoarders.
What if, in the name of green ecology, society becomes a collective hoarder? We’ve arrived at the place where there is no market for recycled stuff. link The greenies won’t let us burn our garbage. We will soon be building ski hills out of recyclables. Eventually we won’t be able to move around. Our highways will run through tunnels in the garbage. 🙂 (maybe I got a bit carried away there.)
Not to worry. Large enough garbage dumps become sources of methane. There are at least two in my county that are being mined for methane.
There is a recycling center that I take cat food cans to, and get a dollar per pound for the aluminum, and another that recycles paper, including newspapers. Organic garbage can be composted (it is around here) and sold as garden soil, earthworms included.
However, midden kitchens are garbage dumps from old societies that allow archaeologists to get an idea of what people used and ate back in Them There Olden Times, so don’t despair. Some future archaeologists will ponder our ski hills made of empty bleach bottles and used toothbrushes, and wonder how we managed to survive without being swamped by an avalanche of it.
The landfill in Sarasota County captures the methane and uses it to power the trucks that pick up the trash.
In that vein, is “graywater” what I think it is? As in recycling and drinking your own PEE? If virtue-signaling has extended this far, time for a comfortable chair, a 12-pack and popcorn!
Greywater is usually water from washing and bathing, not usually sewage per se. However, if you are downstream from a city and draw your drinking water from the same river, your scenario is correct.
RVs deal with this, rule is always dump gray with sewer, but depending on what is put in is not usually bad and rule is sometimes necessarily, and not so necessarily, ignored. Houses could do much better job, even putting air conditioner condensation into sewer, but more easily diverted. There are better solutions to save water than we got with commodes.
How much recycling is actually cosmetic, therefore counter-productive? Like ethanol.
Honestly, to all those distressed by the gloomy climate prospects you are being fed: Go outside. Watch the clouds. Feel the wind. Get soaked by the rain. Sit on the porch and listen to the thunder and see how the lightning flashes brightly when convective weather passes through. And as you grasp what is happening to heat, as the weather is being driven by the atmosphere’s intensively coupled interaction with the surface, you can lose your fear of greenhouse gases.
Eric, I, too, am appalled. To exploit and recruit The the ill into the breach of climate activist hysteria is immoral, nevermind the professional misconduct on display. Did you note the
synonyms of a type of suffering they listed with stressed at the end which is part and parcel of the others?
The science (art) of psych is now fully corrupted. USSR used their psychologists also to sociopolitically manipulate people. Recall the epidemic of Cimate Blues that ended the careers of a number climate scientists and how the cause was egregiously rationalized by psychologists treating them? The patients “explained” that it was because they were working away at revealing that we were heading toward a planetary disaster and they couldn’t get anyone to listen to them.
Staring them in the face was a powerful vector. Temperatures had stopped rising for over a decade during which CO2 had risen ~30% and each year forward added another flat to modestly declining data point. It was here that sceptics began to be a force in the hitherto runaway, almost one-sided climate debate. All of CAGW climatdom was in shock. Trenberth famously said in the climategate chronicles that it was a travesty they couldnt account for the stoppage in global warming. Over 50 reasons why it was a temporary stoppage arose from panicked cliscientists.
“Karlization”(I was pleased to coin the term) of temperatures to erase the Dreaded Pause by a prominent scientist on the eve of his retirement was hastily cobbled together (I would love to see these emails), provides a measure of the effect the Pause was having on the consensus. Clearly the right diagnosis for the Climate Blues was shock and then D’nile. These honest scientists couldnt face the possibility that their own minds were trying to put to them, that all of their climate education and careers’ work were phlogiston and epicycles. For psychologists to enable their straw clutching rationalizations was negligence of the highest order.
Psychology was pretty much corrupt from day one. When you create a field of unprovable, completely subjective “diseases and conditions”, corruption occurs the minute after you start the field.
And then there’s something called “political science.”