Got those ole' Climate Change Blues
A curious case from Australia - from the
Melbourne Herald Sun:
Doomed to a fatal delusion over climate change
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 . . . He also . . . had visions of apocalyptic events."
(So have Alarmist of the Year Tim Flannery, Profit of Doom Al Gore and Sir Richard Brazen, but I digress.)
"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.
The article is a bit tongue in cheek lampooning a lot of the Australian attempts at curbing global warming. The story about the kid is real though and I am surprised that more people aren't suffering the same condition given the quasi-religious status given this theory by the scientific uninitiated...
Posted by DaveH at July 9, 2008 8:21 PM