Thursday, July 23, 2020

The Climate Virus: Hysteria Needs To Shelter In Place

"Climate change: Summers could become 'too hot for humans.'" - BBC."Climate change: Polar bears could be lost by 2100" - BBC."Climate Change Poses 'Systemic Threat' to the Economy, Big Investors Warn" - New York Times.

"Major new climate study rules out less severe global warming scenarios" - Washington Post."Why the next president should establish a Department of Climate" - Vox.

He said he decided to speak out last year "After it became clear to me that alarmism was harming mental health." The author and activist cited "a major survey of 30,000 people around the world," which discovered "Nearly half believed climate change would make humanity extinct," and reported that mental-health professionals are routinely finding "Themselves addressing adolescent anxiety over climate." One in five United Kingdom children, he says, have "Reported having nightmares about it."

Not only does the climate scare spread "Anxiety and depression," Shellenberger notes that when resources are redirected away from economic development and instead poured into programs to mitigate carbon dioxide emissions, those who need growth to emerge from the privations of their Third World economies are hurt.

Australian university climate scientist Tom Wigley says it "May be the most important book on the environment ever written."

The world would be a more pleasant place if the climate alarmists would give their tongues and keyboards a rest.

We'd all be better off if they'd lock down the rhetoric until we can flatten the curve of climate lies.

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