{"id":4418,"date":"2011-07-13T13:22:10","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T20:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2011\/07\/13\/carborexia-agw-psychotic-disorder\/"},"modified":"2011-07-12T20:24:05","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T03:24:05","slug":"carborexia-agw-psychotic-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2011\/07\/13\/carborexia-agw-psychotic-disorder\/","title":{"rendered":"Carborexia &#8212; AGW Psychotic Disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"right\"><script src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/video\/greenbat.php\"><\/script><\/span>An unwanted (or maybe wanted by Gore, et al) side effect of global climate change hysteria is a new class of over-reacting nutjobs developing psychosis based on the misconception that humankind is actually capable of destroying the planet by burning fossil fuels. <\/p>\n<p>I read this article published on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.co2science.org\/\">CO2 Science website<\/a> about Austrailian scientists diagnosing &#8220;Carborexia,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.co2science.org\/articles\/V14\/N28\/EDIT.php\">The Debilitating Disease of Climate Alarmism<\/a>. Excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Writing in the International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, Searle and Gow (2011) say &#8220;there is a growing consensus that increased awareness about climate change is leading to negative emotional reactions in certain individuals (Fritze et al., 2008),&#8221; while noting that &#8220;expressions of negative psychological states relating to climate change appear in popular commentary, public opinion polls and increasingly in the medical and psychological literature (Searle and Gow, 2009).&#8221; And they add that &#8220;doctors are reporting that more and more patients, presenting with anxiety and depression, are citing climate change news as something that they are having difficulty coping with&#8221; and that &#8220;leads to distress and\/or interferes with daily living (Fritze et al., 2008).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The two Australian researchers note that &#8220;other climate related pathologies are also emerging,&#8221; citing the work of Wolf and Salo (2008), who &#8220;described a patient with climate change delusions and visions of apocalyptic events who believed that his personal water consumption could lead to the deaths of millions of people,&#8221; while they write of &#8220;an increase in climate-related obsessive compulsive checking behaviors such as checking: gas and power meters to monitor their usage; taps for leaking water; and petrol consumption via the car&#8217;s odometer reading.&#8221; <strong>In fact, they report that displays of climate change related obsessive and depressive behaviors has led to the creation of the term &#8220;carborexia,&#8221; which &#8220;refers to individuals who have a fanatical desire to reduce their personal carbon footprint, to the point where it severely affects their lifestyle and normal daily activities.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Emphasis mine. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.co2science.org\/articles\/V14\/N28\/EDIT.php\">Read the rest<\/a> of the article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unwanted (or maybe wanted by Gore, et al) side effect of global climate change hysteria is a new class of over-reacting nutjobs developing psychosis based&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,42,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-global-warming","category-greenbats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}