Our first victim of "climate change delusion"

July 04, 2008

The warming preachers truly are driving people mad with fear. In the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, Joshua Wolf and Robert Salo of Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital write:


We describe a patient with climate change delusion, a previously unreported phenomenon. A 17-year-old man was referred to the inpatient psychiatric unit at Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne with an 8 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. He quoted 'internet research' to substantiate this. The patient described that 'I feel guilty about it', had attempted to stop drinking. He was unable to acknowledge that the belief was unreasonable when challenged.

With internet reports like this and this, or Age reports like this and this, how could he tell he was unreasonable? Indeed, some global warming preachers now sound that they need treatment, too.

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/melbourne_boy_first_victim_of_climate_change_delusion/ --
Warmest Regards
Bonzo
"If scientists say they are 100% sure, or that they are absolutely certain about the cause and effect and ignore variables which might show that they could be wrong, they are practicing junk science. Junk science happens when scientists believe something based on just some of what they see."

"V for Vendicar" wrote in message

The Perito Moreno glacier, one of the world's largest, measuring 275 square kilometers (106 square miles) and five kilometers (three miles) wide at its mouth, is located 2,800 kilometers (1,740 miles) southeast of Buenos Aires.
"Tunderbar" wrote Is that all you've got. LOL. You are so pathetic, no offence. Expect More Droughts, Heavy Downpours, Excessive Heat, And Intense Hurricanes Due To Global Warming, NOAA

ROTFLMAO

QUOTE: If only V for Vacuous had bothered to read the actual data contained in a June 2008 report from the U.S. Climate Change Science Program.
A sampling of what the report reveals includes:
Hurricanes declining, no long term increases in drought
- There have been no observed changes in the occurrence of tornadoes or thunderstorms - There have been no long-term increases in strong East Coast winter storms (ECWS), called Nor'easters
- There are no long-term trends in either heat waves or cold spells, though there are trends within shorter time periods in the overall record.
But all of the above appear to be INCREASING in unverified climate models. Computer models predictions are not evidence


Comic Relief, Newsweek's Begley, Global Warming Is a Cause of This Year's Extreme Weather
EPW Blog
June 29, 2008

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/3708

QUOTE: If only Begley had bothered to read the actual data contained in a June 2008 report from the U.S. Climate Change Science Program. A sampling of what the report reveals includes: Hurricanes declining, no long term increases in drought - There have been no observed changes in the occurrence of tornadoes or thunderstorms - There have been no long-term increases in strong East Coast winter storms (ECWS), called Nor'easters - There are no long-term trends in either heat waves or cold spells, though there are trends within shorter time periods in the overall record. But all of the above appear to be INCREASING in unverified climate models. Computer models predictions are not evidence

QUOTE: The warmest year, 1998, did not have Midwest floods anywhere near the magnitude of those in 1993 and 2008.


Note: here are 3 quick rebuttals to this Newsweek's latest silliness.

1) Sharon Begley of Newsweek unhinged. She really is trying to outdo her previous shoddy reporting. Her track record for climate reporting is comical. See: Newsweek's Climate Editorial Screed Violates Basic Standards of Journalism - August 2007

2) If only Begley had bothered to read the actual data contained in a June 2008 report from the U.S. Climate Change Science Program. A sampling of what the report reveals includes: Hurricanes declining, no long term increases in drought - There have been no observed changes in the occurrence of tornadoes or thunderstorms - There have been no long-term increases in strong East Coast winter storms (ECWS), called Nor'easters - There are no long-term trends in either heat waves or cold spells, though there are trends within shorter time periods in the overall record. But all of the above appear to be INCREASING in unverified climate models. Computer models predictions are not evidence. (For full report)

3) If only Begley had bothered to read this report from a meteorologist: Midwest Floods and 'Completely Unjustified' Climate Change Fear Mongering - By Mike Smith is a certified consulting meteorologist and a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society He is CEO of WeatherData Services, Inc., an AccuWeather Company, based in Wichita.) Excerpt: The EDF proclaimed: Did Humans Cause the Midwest Flooding? In the piece, EDF's James Wang writes, "Another element [of the Midwest floods] may be global warming, which increases the probability of extreme weather events like torrential rain." [...] And, it leaves us to ponder a key question: Does the science justify tying the Midwest floods to Global Warming? My answer? An emphatic "no." [.] The contention that "warming" is linked to catastrophic Midwest floods is relatively easy to test. Here's how: What were the temperatures during this and similar floods in the region? When the atmosphere creates weather it is responding to the conditions that exist in the lower atmosphere at the time of the event - temperatures, pressures, humidity, etc. [...] The record Midwest floods of 1993 and 2008 occurred after periods of rapid cooling. The warmest year, 1998, did not have Midwest floods anywhere near the magnitude of those in 1993 and 2008. It is my judgment the attempt to link the 2008 floods to Global "Warming" is completely unjustified. (Full report)
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Warmest Regards
Bonzo
"Attributing global climate change to human CO2 production is akin to trying to diagnose an automotive problem by ignoring the engine (analogous to the Sun in the climate system) and the transmission (water vapour) and instead focusing entirely, not on one nut on a rear wheel, which would be analogous to total CO2, but on one thread on that nut, which represents the human contribution." Dr. Timothy Ball, Chairman of the Natural Resources Stewardship Project (NRSP.com), Former Professor Of Climatology, University of Winnipeg>

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