Climate Psychology 101
In their Washington, DC offices, journalist Andrea Mitchell hops between NBC and MSNBC. I suspect the commute is but a few floors. The linked article, NBC vs MSNBC: Difference and Comparison said, “The political affiliation of MSNBC is quite different from that of NBC” when in reality they both lean heavily left, but NBC at times endeavors to camouflage its purely progressive passions. MSNBC’s political position can be clearly summed up in a statement their anchor Chris Matthews made while watching a speech by Barrack Obama. Live on the air he said, “I felt this thrill going up my leg.”
The term “political affiliation” looms large in the above story – seeming to indicate a joining, mergence, or amalgamation of MSNBC to the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. Their primary task, being the voice of the people has long been replaced by becoming the voice of themselves and their leftist politicians.
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In the linked story, Andrea Mitchell while interviewing Vivek Ramaswamy, a primary Republican presidential candidate claimed, “ that climate change has resulted in the deaths of two million people in the last 50 years.” Ramaswamy disagreed, as he should have. The International Disaster Database of the Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) and the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) as shown next would strongly disagree.
This graph seems to persistently hide itself from the high-priced Stealth MacBook Pros used by media campaigners and progressive news researchers.
This brings another context of climate change into a new realm. Very few medical doctors write or express opinions, relative to the medical wellness resulting from climate change. The chronicles from psychologists and social workers show a very different trend. During an American Psychological Association Convention a panel discussion on the psychology of climate change, Katharine Hayhoe, chief scientist for the Nature Conservancy asks “ How do you feel about climate change?” and often she gets the response, “I get the same words everywhere: anxious, worried, frustrated, concerned, devastated, overwhelmed, angry, hopeless, horrified, frightened, heartbroken, and afraid.”
However, she does not echo the cause of the depressed conditions, notably because she is assuredly one of them. In the mind of the hard-core, devoted, climate change loyalist, they have long eliminated the need for empirical evidence, proof, or evidence - just say it is so and move on. Everywhere I read about therapy strategies for those consumed with climate anxiety, or eco-anxiety, the treatment is sufficient couch time with a favorite ‘shrink’ as well as encouraging people to take action, especially through activism. The more the merrier, the more the political.
The article claims that “Climate change is a growing threat to mental health. Extreme weather events like wildfires and hurricanes can lead to depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder in people of all ages, sometimes by causing displacement and food insecurity.” However, if the truth is told and the facts are made clear, these mental health patients will realize that they have been lied to year after year. I have written about food insecurity, resulting from climate change many times and in all cases, using statistics from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), these claims are proven wrong.
The article also says, “There’s solid scientific evidence that the human-caused climate crisis is real. Yet some people refuse to acknowledge it exists.” Note the absence of solid scientific verbiage, like, indisputable, unassailable, irrefutable, unequivocal, and undeniable. For evidence, the advocates haul in massaged and manipulated temperature data which always run excessively and purposely hot. One of the initiators of the UOAH satellite system, Dr. John Christy a Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science and Director of the Earth System Science Center at the university said one of my favorite climate change quotes, “Here we have a science that’s so dominated by personalities that claim the science is settled, yet when you walk up to them and say prove it, they can’t.” That is correct it has never been proven, just vehemently talked about by those pursuing the progressive ideologies, wealth, and an imagined leftist utopia that the advancement of climate change can assist in bringing to them.
During the past weekend, in a speech given in France President Joe Biden said, “And the existential threat of climate change, which is just growing greater, we're working together to accelerate the global transition to net-zero. It is the existential threat to humanity, among — the only existential threat to humanity, including nuclear weapons, is if we do nothing on climate change. I could go on.”
So anthropogenic climate change is, “the only existential threat to humanity”? And many wonder why people seek therapy and counseling to rid themselves of the fear and anxieties relative to the world’s biggest deceit.