July 29, 2025
Climate Alarmism is a Mental Disorder
Timothy Birdnow
Climate alarmists are in competition with Lewis Carroll these days.
American Summers Are Starting to Feel Like Winter
FTA:
And yet the fastest growing states are - Texas, Arizona, and Florida, all in the deep South, all hotter than the hinges of Hades (as my grandmother used to say). Why, if this scorching two degree rise in temperature is forcing everyone indoors, are people moving to hot climates? Wouldn't everyone be moving to North Dakota or Idaho? Wouldn't Canada be a vacation destination for many? I've never heard of anyone going on Spring Break to Saskatoon.Wouldn't Lake Superior be the new Ft. Lauderdale?
The author argues that seasonal affective disorder is now affecting people in summer, as if this is a new thing. People have long gotten depressed in summer heat waves.
I would add that this affliction hits people in the winter as much as in the summer, a point this author seems to not grasp; we should be seeing a decline in the winter version if the planet is warming. Her argument slays itself. But,but,but...we're only talking about a warming of two degrees (by her reckoning) and being 25* or 27* makes little difference. Well, the same is true of temps 95* compared to 93* as well.
The author boldly proclaims:
But that isn't true. Certainly the '30's was a hotter decade with more heat waves. Of course the EPA says it's so and we cannot possibly dispute so accurate an institution as government agencies.
But we know how this is achieved; the guardians of climate data simply "data smooth" prior decades to make it appear that the current weather is much hotter than in days of yore. Cute trick. NOAA has been caught manipulating climate data repeatedly. So has NASA. So has the EPA.
(Missouri's official climatologist proclaimed last year the "hottest on record" despite the fact we had few days over a hundred and the winter was not unusually mild. He just made it up.)
So this two degrees of warming may not exist at all, yet we are now being told it's causing mental problems for our citizenry.
Odd; the same people pushing the climate change grift are the same people who are pushing transgenderism and giving children hormones and the like. So they don't seem to concerned about mental health in that case, but worry about a hot summer making people go all James Carvill on the world. Mental health has never been a high priority to the Left before.
The author suggests everyone move to a cold climate, completely ignoring the fact that in winter they will never go outside, thus gaining nothing. But that is the reasoning skills of most liberals and of most journalists.
The fact is this article came out at the peak of the summer heat for a reason; the Atlantic wouldn't dare run it in January because they'd look ridiculous, Al Gorian. And they know people forget how hot previous summers have been. This year it's been warm here in Missouri but hardly a horrible heat wave; we have not once cracked a hundred degrees. I remember years when we got as high as 110*, and had triple digit temperatures for weeks. Not this year, but they are acting like it as they do every summer. And of course the big thing now is to not even mention the actual temperature but the "feels like" temperature, which is a coefficient of humidity plus temps.
The reality is they need to constantly reinforce the climate change mantra in people's minds as it has never been a big deal to the public but it IS a big deal to the statists and Ruling Class, who have gotten fabulously wealthy from it and greatly expanded government power. Despite new science chipping away at the theory every day they now have a template and labor constantly to reinforce it. That is how gaslighting works.
The sad fact is that AGW theory was exploded long ago but was never about climate but political power and socialism. It's been a generations-long War of the Worlds scare, a bogeyman designed to panic weak minded people into handing over their freedom and their money.
PT Barnum was right, or at least that's what these people believe.
Climate alarmists are in competition with Lewis Carroll these days.
American Summers Are Starting to Feel Like Winter
"When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.' '
The author argues that people are STAYING INSIDE MORE because of CLIMATE CHANGE. As if it didn't get hot in bygone years.FTA:
Americans have a long history of enduring heat waves by going outside. In a 1998 essay for The New Yorker, the author Arthur Miller described urbanites’ Depression-era coping mechanisms: People caught the breeze on open-air trolleys, climbed onto the back of ice trucks, and flocked to the beach. In the evenings, they slept in parks or dragged their mattresses onto fire escapes.
But since air conditioning went mainstream, in the 1960s, the easiest way to beat the heat has been by staying indoors—at home, the office, the mall—where cool air is a constant and blinds are often drawn to prevent homes from overheating (and electric bills from skyrocketing). For this convenience, Americans sacrifice the benefits of sunshine and the opportunities for fun it creates. As climate change turns up the temperature, summers in America are coming down to a choice between enduring the heat and avoiding it—both of which might, in their own ways, be making people sick.
In cities across the country, summers are, on average, 2.6 degrees hotter than they were some 50 years ago. In Phoenix, where a 95-degree day is a relief, schedules are arranged around the darkness; Jeffrey Gibson, an accountant who works from home, takes his eight-month-old daughter out for walks before 6:30 a.m.; after that, it’s so hot that she flushes bright red if they venture outside. He spends the rest of his day indoors unless leaving is absolutely necessary. It’s like this from April to October. Gibson recently told his wife, "Man, I think I’m a little depressed.”
But since air conditioning went mainstream, in the 1960s, the easiest way to beat the heat has been by staying indoors—at home, the office, the mall—where cool air is a constant and blinds are often drawn to prevent homes from overheating (and electric bills from skyrocketing). For this convenience, Americans sacrifice the benefits of sunshine and the opportunities for fun it creates. As climate change turns up the temperature, summers in America are coming down to a choice between enduring the heat and avoiding it—both of which might, in their own ways, be making people sick.
In cities across the country, summers are, on average, 2.6 degrees hotter than they were some 50 years ago. In Phoenix, where a 95-degree day is a relief, schedules are arranged around the darkness; Jeffrey Gibson, an accountant who works from home, takes his eight-month-old daughter out for walks before 6:30 a.m.; after that, it’s so hot that she flushes bright red if they venture outside. He spends the rest of his day indoors unless leaving is absolutely necessary. It’s like this from April to October. Gibson recently told his wife, "Man, I think I’m a little depressed.”
And yet the fastest growing states are - Texas, Arizona, and Florida, all in the deep South, all hotter than the hinges of Hades (as my grandmother used to say). Why, if this scorching two degree rise in temperature is forcing everyone indoors, are people moving to hot climates? Wouldn't everyone be moving to North Dakota or Idaho? Wouldn't Canada be a vacation destination for many? I've never heard of anyone going on Spring Break to Saskatoon.Wouldn't Lake Superior be the new Ft. Lauderdale?
The author argues that seasonal affective disorder is now affecting people in summer, as if this is a new thing. People have long gotten depressed in summer heat waves.
I would add that this affliction hits people in the winter as much as in the summer, a point this author seems to not grasp; we should be seeing a decline in the winter version if the planet is warming. Her argument slays itself. But,but,but...we're only talking about a warming of two degrees (by her reckoning) and being 25* or 27* makes little difference. Well, the same is true of temps 95* compared to 93* as well.
The author boldly proclaims:
America’s summer quandary—suffer inside or out?—will become only more persistent as climate change intensifies. In the United States, heat waves have grown more frequent and intense every decade since the 1960s.
But that isn't true. Certainly the '30's was a hotter decade with more heat waves. Of course the EPA says it's so and we cannot possibly dispute so accurate an institution as government agencies.
But we know how this is achieved; the guardians of climate data simply "data smooth" prior decades to make it appear that the current weather is much hotter than in days of yore. Cute trick. NOAA has been caught manipulating climate data repeatedly. So has NASA. So has the EPA.
(Missouri's official climatologist proclaimed last year the "hottest on record" despite the fact we had few days over a hundred and the winter was not unusually mild. He just made it up.)
So this two degrees of warming may not exist at all, yet we are now being told it's causing mental problems for our citizenry.
Odd; the same people pushing the climate change grift are the same people who are pushing transgenderism and giving children hormones and the like. So they don't seem to concerned about mental health in that case, but worry about a hot summer making people go all James Carvill on the world. Mental health has never been a high priority to the Left before.
The author suggests everyone move to a cold climate, completely ignoring the fact that in winter they will never go outside, thus gaining nothing. But that is the reasoning skills of most liberals and of most journalists.
The fact is this article came out at the peak of the summer heat for a reason; the Atlantic wouldn't dare run it in January because they'd look ridiculous, Al Gorian. And they know people forget how hot previous summers have been. This year it's been warm here in Missouri but hardly a horrible heat wave; we have not once cracked a hundred degrees. I remember years when we got as high as 110*, and had triple digit temperatures for weeks. Not this year, but they are acting like it as they do every summer. And of course the big thing now is to not even mention the actual temperature but the "feels like" temperature, which is a coefficient of humidity plus temps.
The reality is they need to constantly reinforce the climate change mantra in people's minds as it has never been a big deal to the public but it IS a big deal to the statists and Ruling Class, who have gotten fabulously wealthy from it and greatly expanded government power. Despite new science chipping away at the theory every day they now have a template and labor constantly to reinforce it. That is how gaslighting works.
The sad fact is that AGW theory was exploded long ago but was never about climate but political power and socialism. It's been a generations-long War of the Worlds scare, a bogeyman designed to panic weak minded people into handing over their freedom and their money.
PT Barnum was right, or at least that's what these people believe.
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As regular readers of this site are aware, I never tire of pointing out that I live in the crazy-ass (at least politically) state of Minnesota, which contains the city of International Falls, home of the regularly seasonal coldest temperatures in the continental U.S. (New Hampshirites will carp that Mount Washington beats us, but that's not a city and people don't live on it.) And yet we often get summer temperatures in the high 90's, and it has more than once cracked 100 on my indoor/outdoor thermometer -- something that has happened only once in Tampa, FL (just the other day, in fact) since records began to be kept.
But the thing is, we (or at least my wife and I) don't look at those readings and say "Oh golly gee, that's two degrees hotter than last year on this day, the world must be heating up." We are more apt to say "It's a couple degrees hotter than yesterday." But the actual temperature may be a couple degrees cooler than yesterday. Indeed, last week the temperatures were in the 60's for three or four days.
We are more apt to pay attention to the humidity, especially if we're spending much time outside; and "global warming" isn't causing that. Air quality is another thing: Canuckistan is still generating forest fire smoke on many days, cutting off sunshine and stinking up the air badly, causing us to grumble about Manitoba's lousy forestry practices -- are they run by a bunch of retired Californians?
The upshot of this is that we don't believe the Global Warmiacs and never have. We see a lot of people driving Teslas, including a couple of people in our group of town homes, and if that's what floats their boats, fine, but they're polluting the earth more than the air, considering the mining of materials to make those batteries. Same thing for batteries of hybrids.
Summer quandary? Get out of town! Same with winter quandary. For three years we lived just north of New York City, where they never got any snow, and my wife hated it. That's one reason we moved here, to get four seasons, only we didn't know that they'd be Almost winter, Winter, Still winter, and Road-repair. That last CAN be a quandary!
But the thing is, we (or at least my wife and I) don't look at those readings and say "Oh golly gee, that's two degrees hotter than last year on this day, the world must be heating up." We are more apt to say "It's a couple degrees hotter than yesterday." But the actual temperature may be a couple degrees cooler than yesterday. Indeed, last week the temperatures were in the 60's for three or four days.
We are more apt to pay attention to the humidity, especially if we're spending much time outside; and "global warming" isn't causing that. Air quality is another thing: Canuckistan is still generating forest fire smoke on many days, cutting off sunshine and stinking up the air badly, causing us to grumble about Manitoba's lousy forestry practices -- are they run by a bunch of retired Californians?
The upshot of this is that we don't believe the Global Warmiacs and never have. We see a lot of people driving Teslas, including a couple of people in our group of town homes, and if that's what floats their boats, fine, but they're polluting the earth more than the air, considering the mining of materials to make those batteries. Same thing for batteries of hybrids.
Summer quandary? Get out of town! Same with winter quandary. For three years we lived just north of New York City, where they never got any snow, and my wife hated it. That's one reason we moved here, to get four seasons, only we didn't know that they'd be Almost winter, Winter, Still winter, and Road-repair. That last CAN be a quandary!
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at July 30, 2025 12:12 AM (/DT7Z)
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Yawp. Everywhere there is warm to hot summer temperatures. Heck; even the polar regions get them occasionally. But people just remember two days out at most.
I remember about ten years ago here in Missouri we were getting temps between 198 and 110 for almost two weeks. Nothing remotely like that since. That is the difference between weather and climate.
I remember about ten years ago here in Missouri we were getting temps between 198 and 110 for almost two weeks. Nothing remotely like that since. That is the difference between weather and climate.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at July 30, 2025 06:23 AM (gvKVM)
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Wow, what a great read! The insights here are so helpful. I'm definitely bookmarking this for future reference. Thanks for sharing!
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