Guest essay by Vijay Jayaraj
Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is fairly popular. Even people in far eastern countries like India and Australia know about it.
But little do we hear about Climate-Change Derangement Syndrome (CCDS) and another new syndrome emerging from it.
CCDS is a behavioral pattern in which a section of our society responds irrationally to any trend in global temperatures that contradicts its narrative of a dangerous rise in global temperatures, without regard to the actual data.
For example, recently a group of 60 scientists, journalists, politicians, activists, and others signed an open letter saying they won’t debate anyone who denies either that climate change is human induced or that it is dangerous and needs to be prevented, even if preventing it costs trillions of dollars otherwise available to solve other problems.
In the past 20 years, those with CCDS have used all means to attack those who do not share their views on climate change.
Rather than accurately representing what skeptics think and presenting evidence to the contrary, sufferers of CCDS caricature skeptics as denying any human contribution to warming or even as denying any warming at all.
Those who are new to the climate controversy might be surprised to learn that almost 100% of climate skeptics within academia acknowledge the current warming trend in our world.
The earth experienced a very cold period during the 16th and 17th centuries. Dubbed the Little Ice Age, this period was brutal for the Northern Hemisphere. It was followed by a natural rise in global temperatures, long before the Industrial Revolution grew enough to add enough to the atmosphere’s carbon dioxide content to make any significant contribution to temperature.
The warming that began during this phase continues to date, and scientists call the current phase the Modern Warm Period. So, all the academicians agree on the current warming phase.
However, by repeated attacks on skeptics through a complicit mainstream media, those with CCDS have led much of the public to believe skeptics deny all warming—or at least all human contribution to it.
In reality, most skeptics (both within academia and outside it), remembering the undeniable evidence about the existence of similar warm periods in recent climate history, question not whether the world is warming, or even whether human activity contributes to the warming, but how much, and in what relation to natural causes, and whether the proposed changes in global energy policies are worth the effort.
One variation of CCDS we might call the Global Temperature Plateau Syndrome (GTPS). It afflicts those who are in constant denial of the approximately 19-year trend of reduced, possibly even completely absent, warming.
This trend is fascinating because it coincides with an unrelenting increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration that should, according to alarmist theory, have driven warming much faster than actually observed. This slowdown in warming, acknowledged by the staunchest climate alarmists, like Michael Mann, puts to rest the most popular hypothesis in the media—that temperatures increase in correlation with atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration. The climate system is more complex than sufferers of GTPS, who continue to deny the trend, recognize.
Frustrated by academic scientists’ failure to toe the line, GTPS sufferers increasingly turn to politics rather than science to enforce their views. Consequently, we are likely to witness (if it is not already evident) political institutions and international policy-making bodies exerting their power, through funding and other means, to enforce compliance with their views in the academy.
With an increasing desire to control the public dissemination of scientific information and open declarations about persecuting those who differ from their false narrative, those who suffer from GTPS will cause permanent and lasting damage to the field of climate science and stifle progress in our efforts to understand our climate system.
The real intensity of GTPS, however, will be revealed if global temperature prolongs the downward spiral of February 2016–February 2018, during which global average surface temperature dropped 0.56˚C—the biggest two-year drop on record. (The runner-up was 1982–1984, with a drop of 0.47˚C.) Global temperature in the ensuing six months has fluctuated without a clear trend.
If there is anything we can learn from our knowledge about past climate, it is that cold phases are not conducive to human flourishing. From what it appears, it is not good for those with GTPS either.
Vijay Jayaraj (M.Sc., Environmental Science, University of East Anglia, England), Research Associate for Developing Countries for the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation, lives in Chennai, India.
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You should have called it Global Warming Derangement Syndrome (GWDS) to make diagnostic easier. People who have a knee-jerk reaction of saying “it’s not global warming, it’s climate change!” are probably suffering from it. 🙂
Let’s not forget the emerging problem of Satellite Temperature Decline Syndrome (STDs) in which the attacks on the satellite temperature record increase in response to further temperature declines in the data, possibly below the 19-year plateau.
….probably below
“Let’s not forget the emerging problem of Satellite Temperature Decline Syndrome (STDs) in which the attacks on the satellite temperature record increase in response to further temperature declines in the data,”
Thank Goodness, we have the weather balloons to verify the accuracy of the satellite data. People with STDs don’t seem to want to address that inconvenient fact. 🙂
Courageous man considering your employers attitude to AGW.
I predict that he will be ostracized in the near future. The alarmists read WUWT.
Looks like he got his degree there, and he has moved on, now affiliated, of all things, with a religious organization. Now THAT’s irony — somebody affiliated with a religious organization slamming climate-change alarmists.
On the other side of that coin, Robert, many people who are hostile to religion are “all in” on the catastrophic warming narrative. See Why climate change is a state/church issue, March 29, 2017.
“The Freedom From Religion Foundation is dismayed at the executive order President Donald Trump has signed to roll back vital regulations to curb climate change. … Denying anthropogenic climate change is based on the rejection of facts and reality in favor of blind faith, wishful thinking or willful denial.”
The climate change scam is a key facet of the Deep State Marxist one world government agenda. It’s about mass wealth transfer/redistribution and gaining enormous political and economic control over every aspect of our lives.
The useful idiot leftists have bought into the engineered PC/MArxist hipster ideology which is nothing more than a shopping list of NWO political agendas dressed up as utopian altruism. If the NWO wants it to happen it’ll be worked into leftism as a virtue.
Climate change has become a major issue on the left and not by coincidence.
The hordes of useful idiot SJWs are the foot soldiers for cultural subversion and realising the political objectives of the Deep State.
Another agenda of the NWO is destruction/subversion/subjugation of Christianity. This is because devotion to God before the state is a major barrier to complete control of the state, especially a God that promotes individual rights, freedom, Patriarchal authority, helping one’s fallow man, defined traditional Gender roles etc, i.e. the antithesis of the Marxist, Darwinian, collectivist NWO.
As Anti-Christianity and Climate change are both facets of the Lefty religion now you’ll find that those who’re most venomously vocal about climate change also hate Christianity. Both agendas are also woven together by an underlying anti-human theme of the NWO. They want to reduce population to make it more controllable by global governance thus they pushed the overpopulation myth and the ‘humans are a virus’ mentality. Christianity promotes human life and civilisation as do skeptics.
Sabretruth
Gulp!
Nailed it 100%
Ah yes, the intersection of religion and global warming/climate change.
Kiddies have always thrown toys out of prams, now they can coordinate via social media and the compliant MSM. Just now I heard on the BBC about a new book by Bob Woodward, … who was “successful in bringing down Nixon”, and how a few staged protests at the Kavanaugh hearing today shows the “deep division in America”. Derangement Syndrome indeed.
Liberals cause chaos, then use that chaos to demand that the hearings be suspended.
Some things never change.
The only difficulty I have is separating those that do so unwittingly versus deliberate action.
But you’re right, that dynamic is constant, either way.
The Democrats turned the hearing into a circus. They showed their true, nasty selves today.
I felt sorry for Kevannagh’s wife and daughters who had to sit through all that partisan, political ranting and insanity. And it was all deliberate, make no mistake about it. This is your new Democrat Socialist Nasty Party in action.
I didn’t see Senator Cory Booker’s imaginary friend at the hearings. It is rumored that Booker will run for president in 2020. I’m wondering if his imaginary friend will run as his vice president.
When I first watched a video of the Kavanaugh hearings, I literal thought I was watching a bad parody video, and checked the URL…
When I realized I was actually witnessing the real hearings, I became angry at the circus Leftists were creating; disgusting!
It’s depressing how insane, delusional and childish Leftists have become.
A very sad page in US history. It was like watching a 3rd-World Parliamentary debate. The only thing missing were politicians throwing chairs at the opposition…
The American Left has really gone off the deep end. Worse than I have ever seen them.
The Democrats were on a socialist roll with Obama being in power and were expecting that roll to continue with Hillary, and then the voters upset their plans, and they can’t handle it, and react with hate, anger, and violence towards those who thwarted their Socialist dream.
Let’s hope that reasonable people will see the delusional actions of the Democrats and will be repelled, and will vote accordingly in coming elections.
Our only chance is to keep the Democrats from regaining a majority. Otherwise, we are headed down the road to ruin again.
It has proven particularly difficult to weed out the Deep State Socialists from the government and if the socialists get control again, it will be even worse.
No doubt Obama thinks he didn’t go far enough in his sedition efforts to elect a successor and keep Trump from getting into Office. I imagine the next Democrat Socialist attempt to subvert our form of government, if they ever regain power, will be much more comprehensive and effective.
Conservatives need to stand up and fight for their freedoms right this moment. There’s no time to waste. Go out and vote a straight Republican ticket, even if there may be a Democrat or two you might consider. Republican numbers are the important thing now. The difference between success and failure for the United States and the world.
……Stay tuned — That part is coming.
” Dubbed the Little Ice Age”..
…and then claiming it ended around 1850
Which is so totally made up…no one knows when it ended….as far as anyone knows….we could still be in the recovery
It was warmer than now when the LIA started.
…exactly
Really?
Yes
“The real intensity of GTPS, however, will be revealed if global temperature prolongs the downward spiral of February 2016–February 2018, during which global average surface temperature dropped 0.56˚C—the biggest two-year drop on record. (The runner-up was 1982–1984, with a drop of 0.47˚C.) Global temperature in the ensuing six months has fluctuated without a clear trend.”
If we have been seeing the “The warmest year eveah” year after year. Where is the disconnect with the above statement?
Warmist climate scientists suffer from a condition we now have diagnosed as ‘Limelight-itis’, where the thrill of exposure is greater than the ‘Science’ they claim is theirs to own; they mention ClimateChange every few minutes like a Tourett’s Syndrome tic in the hope it brings in more grants or gains them further acknowledgment in the ClimateChangeCult, especially for the science presenters when interviewed on Radio & Television – “Ka-Ching” 😀
That “itis” also attracts bugs at night.
I fear that the writer has touched on only a few of the distinct sub-syndromes associated with CCDS (Climate Change Derangement Syndrome).
I know of, at least, a few others:
* Denialist Aphasia Disorder (DAD)
—– an inability to comprehend or formulate language because of damage to specific brain regions, resulting in nonsense logic and pseudo-claims that look quite convincing to those inexperienced in diagnosing this disorder.
* Consensus Science Automatism (CSA)
—– An irrational mental state that leads those afflicted to committing crimes against humanity, in the name of science, without knowing it.
* Climekleptomania (sorry, no acronym)
—– a mental illness that makes those afflicted want to steal words from mathematics and physics to use incorrectly in sophistic arguments designated as “climate science”.
* Mosher’s Syndrome (MS)
—– A condition in which someone pretends to have a serious point to make in order to get fair treatment in a coherent discussion of climate change.
OCO2D (“Obsessively Compulsive about CO2 Disorder”)
—– Perhaps the gravest of the sub-syndromes, this one blind sights all intellectual processes, forcing those afflicted to attribute doom to an entire planet, due to the infrared action of 0.06 % of Earth’s atmospheric mass, underestimating all other processes that dominate or subsume CO2’s infrared action.
Those nearing retirement age are wise to investigate whether their health insurance adequately covers these conditions. They only seem to get worse with age.
Climydia?
* Chronic RyanS yndrome (CRyS)
— The delusional belief that others see your juvenile “sciencey” comments to be as cute as you do and that they don’t see straight through your one-sided logic, abject hypocrisy, and Alinsky tactics of accusing your enemy of being exactly who your are yourself.
* Denial of God Syndrome (DoGS)
— Everything came into existence when nothing went bang, and anyone who can see evidence of intelligence must be a tinfoil nut-job and a leftie.
I have always said that the biggest lie from the global warming crowd is their claim that skeptics deny any and all warming and human effect. They set up this straw man because it is so easily knocked down, not because it is true.
It’s a lot easier to argue against something that nobody believes. Most of the public at large who have bought into the hysteria is completely ignorant about the actual mainstream skeptic positions.
They learned from the best deceiver of all. The biggest trick the devil ever pulled is convincing the world he didn’t exist.
It’s a knee jerk reaction. I was recently at a party where someone blurted out “*redacted* is really bad.” The thought process then occurred. Oopsie.
It’s amazing how folks absorb attitudes and don’t reflect on them at all. To them, climate deniers are evil but, if you ask them why, they won’t be able to tell you.
I still don’t know what a … “climate denier” … is.
Is saying that a person is a “climate believer” really saying anything? No, except in the twisted minds of those who have redefined what “climate” means to reference their pet narrative about human evil. I don’t buy using the word as these folks do, and I give them no leeway in using it, as they would.
When I say, “climate”, I mean what the dictionary says.
Robert, I ask people if hurricanes are part of climate and then I note that in over a 100 + years of data, hurricanes are not becoming more numerous nor are they getting stronger.
It’s simple – a “climate denier” is someone who denies that there is a climate.
Well, someone told me last week that Climate Change was a ‘million times’ worse than thermonuclear war.
I’d call that irrational.
We all are occasionally irrational with emotional consumer purchases, or refusing to acknowledge serious damaging faults in loved ones, etc.
But thinking climate change is worse than nuclear war — I’d call that insane.
Instead of all these different derangements and syndromes, we need one word to rule them all: Climatics. Or, if you will, Warmatics.
“Climaniacs”
“Warmaniacs”
Well, to be honest, the common factor is ‘progressive’.
How about “Warm-mongers”
“Alarminati”
A very thorough, yet concise post.
CCDS is a behavioral pattern in which a section of our society responds irrationally to any
Is a near perfect description of Paranoia – check it out at a Thesaurus near you and you’ll see ‘irrational’ going past
There are not many other words available and it’s gotten a rather unfortunate Urban Slang connotation but it describes the classic ‘Over Active Startle’
eg Where you attempt to arouse someone who is half-asleep
There is a lovely scene from the British TV series ‘The Young Ones where Neil, the original laid back dope smoking hippy character, is in a cannabis induced slumber at the far end of a room. Characters at the other side of the room, speaking quietly, mention his name.
He immediately jumps right out of his skin, scared totally shitless and questioning:
‘are the fuzz here’
‘is the house on fire’
‘what’s wrong’
‘what’s happened’
‘has the bomb dropped’
etc etc
………and it takes determined efforts by his flatmates to calm his distress.
All they did was to mention his name in quiet conversation at the other side of the room -they were trying their damnest NOT to waken him.
Not least as folks in that state will often do something that actually endangers them. If I recall, Neil was going to jump from the window to escape the police he imagined were coming to raid his cannabis stash and arrest him.
There is a lovely if truly unlovely story on the BBC news site right now about the Princess Alice.
Maybe check that out to see accounts of panic stricken behaviour.
Now.
*Why* are they paranoid?
In Neil’s example above, his panic was brought on by long-term cannabis use – a chemical substance with well documented depressant properties
Is cannabis a possibility?
Are there any other chemical depressants out there that, over an extended period of use, will bring on the Over Active Startle?
If it’s on a TV show, it must be true.
Even though >95% of their models have failed miserably to track any actual changes in the climate, we are continually assured that we are “deniers” when we refuse to accept their dire predictions about the climate. Additionally, they are not interested in presenting any cogent and consistent explanation of past climate change. For example, a mere 25,000 years ago the area of North America where Chicago is presently located was under a mile of glacial ice. What caused that? But global warming!!
If there is anything that is consistent with their agenda is that it converges towards socialism. That is always the solution. Bigger government, less freedom, higher taxes, less transportation, less heating, less refrigeration, less air conditioning, dirty laundry and unflushed solid waste in the toilet. That latter item is a great metaphor for these people.
There is no problem that progressives can’t solve with the universal solution:
1) More taxes.
2) More government authority to regulate industry and individuals.
3) Wealth transfers.
I have long said (as many others have too) that the real climate deniers are the fake alarmist scientists who refuse to acknowledge the serious downward trend in global temperatures since the Holocene Thermal Optimum around 7000 years ago.
Apparently for them, global climate was a veritable Garden of Eden at the depth of the Little Ice Age as that pre-1850 period of cold is the one they openly proclaim is needed for the Earth to return to. Apparently late Spring-freezes, early Fall frosts, cold summers, and the old fashioned hard-cold snow-bound winters is nostalgic for them.
As for CC Derangement Syndrome, we already have the poster-boy for that phenomenon in meteorologist Eric Holthaus’s regular mental breakdowns.
What was the CO2 level during the LIA?
Or maybe it’s simply Josef Stalin’s government that is the source of their nostalgia?
The problem they have selling their product is that most people in Britain like warm weather in the summer. Why do they think that people don’t go to Archangel Siberia for a winter holiday.
In the US, a particularly vulnerable group are people in their mid 20’s to mid 30’s who are unemployed, with huge student loans to pay off, who are still living with their parents. These people are miserable (and angry).
Climate-Change Derangement Syndrome is a great way to focus their anger.
I don’t imagine it will be long before Governor Brown allows this to be used as reason to collect long term disability (just like if you are HIV positive). It is just “the minimum livable wage” in sheep’s clothing.
whoever keeps downvoting…
I purposefully upvote simply to cancel out your stupidity 🙂
No scientist signed that open letter. Oh, they may have been, but once they affixed their signature to that document, they ceased being scientists and became advocates.
Sufferers of CCDS, only see, hear, read the world as absolutes.
Sadly, their insistence on absolutes does not allow for any form or sign of heresy.
So long as the anti-science CAGW disciples insist the world is doomed; they absolutely ignore differences of opinion.
CAGW = Doom by heat, and CAGW disciples cheer the author, writer, alarmist, alleged researcher, etc.
Let any CAGW disciple admit that doom is not imminent or that anthropogenic CO₂ is not the cause, and they are ready to lynch/burn/crucify heretics; just as they despise and attack skeptics.
Error bounds that diminish their graphs are ignored.
Blatant errors are immediately forgiven, and likewise forgiven.
Utterly bogus predictions and failed prognostications are treated as correct and still pending.
Sufferers of CCDS appear to have lost use of all senses along with their logic, mathematics, meteorology, Earth Sciences, etc.
Interestingly and quite sadly, CCDS sufferers believe more propaganda combined with censorship to be climate science’s salvation. Science has nothing to do with the divide between skeptics and alarmists.
Poor things. I expect they must be “literally shaking”.
Anthony, is it possible to have a place that lists who casts what votes?
I’d be interested to see precisely who down-votes each comment. that would be fun. I want to know which provocateur is lurking
On other blogs, if you hit the up or down button more than once, it will toggle your vote, rather than counting it once and giving you an error message each subsequent time.
Two other points to make about CCDS is it assumes that warming temperatures ( or now changing climates) are bad for humans and that humans have the financial and technical resources to do something about it. To me these two aspects of the debate which question the logic of doing something and the futility of it are the main issues where CCDS affects current behaviour.
This syndrome defies all human logic and reflects why a person like myself feels that I have woken up in a parallel world where a whole lot of people ( especially decision makers) have actually lost their sanity and have lost there capacity to see things as they really are.
“I have woken up in a parallel world where a whole lot of people ( especially decision makers) have actually lost their sanity and have lost there capacity to see things as they really are.”
That’s the world we live in.
Good to see Vijay here! I read him on American Thinker.
Too much too little too late. The climate creeps are going to shut it all down soon enough.
Polarizing Opinion Politics Epilepsy or POPE
The question which needs to e b e answered by the true believers is this. So we now have Extreme weather but where did that come from. The answer of course is Climate change .So where did climate change come from, why from Global warming. But wait, global warming stopped in 1997 did’nt it ?
MJE
What’s your question Michael?