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PSYCHIATRISTS have detected the first case of "climate change delusion" - and they haven't even yet got to Kevin Rudd and his global warming guru.
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 . . .
"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.
Originally posted by centurion1211
reply to post by Illahee
So, if this is like other delusional illnesses I've read about. The first step to recovery would be to get through the denial stage. That allows the patient to move forward and seek treatment.
Originally posted by The Nighthawk
Originally posted by centurion1211
reply to post by Illahee
So, if this is like other delusional illnesses I've read about. The first step to recovery would be to get through the denial stage. That allows the patient to move forward and seek treatment.
I could say the same thing for your sad devotion to "conservative philosophy".
What is this Climate Change ,, that they are speaking of??? Did someone change the Global Warming title???
JOURNALIST: Is climate change the problem for the Murray-Darling?
WONG: Well, look it’s firstly the case that we are tracking at really historic lows in the Murray-Darling. Now to what extent that is climate change and to what extent part of that is just temporal drought I am sure people will argue. What I can tell you is this, the CSIRO have got reports out that project where climate change will take the reduction in water into the Murray-Darling by 2050. We’re currently tracking below the worst-case scenario of mid-century. In other words, what we are experiencing now is worse than the scientists have predicted for the worst case climate change scenario for 2050.
"it is extremely unlikely that enough rain will fall this winter to let the Murray-Darling river system be used for agriculture."
Flannery, in his book "The Weather Makers," has an explanation for the severe drought. For the first 146 years of European habitation in southwest Australia, winter rainfalls were reliable, he says, but everything changed in 1975, when winter rainfall began a decline of ten to twenty percent. Half of the decline is due to global warming, which has pushed the temperate weather zone farther south, and half has come from destruction of the ozone layer over the South Pole.
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The Murray Darling Basin experienced average maximum temperatures more than 1.2°C higher than in any previous drought since 1950.
"Most of this warming is likely due to the increase in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere from human activity such as burning fossil fuels for electricity and transport and from land-clearing," said Karoly.
The actual trend in Australian temperature since 1950 now matches the climate model studies of how temperatures respond to increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Karoly believes this is the first drought in Australia where the impact of human-induced global warming can be clearly observed.
Dr. Risbey said that although the 2002 drought was related to natural climate variations associated with El Niño, last year's higher temperatures could not be attributed solely to this factor.
"While higher temperatures are expected during El Niño triggered droughts," Risbey said, "the 2002 drought temperatures are extraordinary when compared to the four major droughts since 1950, with average maximum temperatures more than 1°C higher than these other droughts."
Originally posted by centurion1211
Here are further excerpts from the article:
"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.
This is the beginning of confirmation of what many of us have suspected - that the notion of climate change caused by human activities is false, and in fact, a delusion that could require treatment in a mental facility if it intrudes into a person's life too far.
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Originally posted by mirageofdeceit
Here's what I think to MMGW: RUBBISH! It's natural.
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What is this Climate Change ,, that they are speaking of??? Did someone change the Global Warming title???
You got it. There were too many holes to be picked in "Global Warming" so they changed it to "Climate Change" instead, as they can then say that anything natural is due to climate change.
I noticed a trend in the last couple of months for severe weather that had "nothing to do with climate change" attached to the reports. HUH??? It's all to do with the climate.
The BS is getting so tangled up, their starting to believe their own lies, and are getting confused as to what they're trying to say.
None of what is happening to the weather systems etc.. is bad. It's just natural. So some land gets flooded, it gets a bit warmer. WOW.
It's just a scam to make money.
EDIT: It's also a control thing. Scare people into not traveling so much, not buying things (ooh - think of the CO2 emitted to produce x), not going on holiday etc.. because of the effect on the climate... It's BS.
[edit on 10-7-2008 by mirageofdeceit]
Originally posted by mental modulator
Once again pure speculation -- zero science -- and the dinosaur fossils were put here to test us!
Read some basic test books! Venus is a good natural experiment on Global warming!
You can't kill science with opinion -- that was three hundred years ago when that worked last!
Yup a bunch of liberal terrorist lovers!
Originally posted by mirageofdeceit
Here's what I think to MMGW: RUBBISH! It's natural.
www.abovetopsecret.com...
What is this Climate Change ,, that they are speaking of??? Did someone change the Global Warming title???
You got it. There were too many holes to be picked in "Global Warming" so they changed it to "Climate Change" instead, as they can then say that anything natural is due to climate change.
I noticed a trend in the last couple of months for severe weather that had "nothing to do with climate change" attached to the reports. HUH??? It's all to do with the climate.
The BS is getting so tangled up, their starting to believe their own lies, and are getting confused as to what they're trying to say.
None of what is happening to the weather systems etc.. is bad. It's just natural. So some land gets flooded, it gets a bit warmer. WOW.
It's just a scam to make money.
EDIT: It's also a control thing. Scare people into not traveling so much, not buying things (ooh - think of the CO2 emitted to produce x), not going on holiday etc.. because of the effect on the climate... It's BS.
[edit on 10-7-2008 by mirageofdeceit]