{"id":450887,"date":"2026-06-17T09:20:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T16:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=450887"},"modified":"2026-06-17T09:20:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T16:20:26","slug":"worry-about-climate-fearmongering-not-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=450887","title":{"rendered":"Worry About Climate Fearmongering \u2013 Not Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

No wonder children are experiencing more anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paul Driessen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

America\u2019s teenagers and young adults are experiencing a \u201ctroubling rise\u201d in anxiety, depression, emergency room visits, suicidal thoughts and suicide, the Centers for Disease Control<\/a>, psychological and psychiatric organizations<\/a>, schools and other observers<\/a> are reporting \u2026 yet again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CDC\u2019s 2023 Youth Risk Behavior Survey<\/a> found that 40% of American students experienced persistent feelings of hopelessness, 28% experienced poor mental health, 20% seriously considered attempting suicide, and 10% had attempted suicide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The researchers attribute this in part to isolation during the Covid pandemic and from using computer, cell phone, social media and AI as substitutes<\/a> for personal interactions; to bullying, educational pressures, family discord and socio-economic disadvantages; and to declining faith, spirituality and moral values.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are undoubtedly major factors \u2013 and serious challenges for family, medical, educational, religious and societal institutions \u2013 and for all who strive to be strong, social, resilient individuals and families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, we should add to these causes the near-constant negativity presented by liberal\/leftist teachers, journalists and social media influencers about our nation\u2019s and western civilization\u2019s \u201chorrible\u201d history, culture and values. Especially when they ignore other nations\u2019 dogmas and histories of rape, murder, slavery<\/a> and forced conversion of \u201csubhuman\u201d and \u201cinfidel\u201d or otherwise \u201cdeficient\u201d or \u201cuncooperative\u201d people across Asia<\/a> and the Maghreb, deep into Africa<\/a>, and by Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We should also attribute this \u201ctroubling rise\u201d to similarly constant academic, online and media fearmongering about endless \u201cenvironmental perils\u201d \u2013 and even more so to doom-and-gloom brainwashing alleging that \u201cour planet\u2019s health and all forms of life on it<\/a> are imperiled\u201d by climate change<\/em> caused by fossil fuels, agriculture and other human activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our planet is dying. We\u2019ve got 30, 20, 10 years until it\u2019s so poisoned that it won\u2019t support plant, animal or human life. Life on Earth has never been worse \u2013 not even in the Dark Ages or World War II. Young people have every right to be despondent, to have little hope for the future<\/a>, to see little reason to get married or have children. We hear it over and over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children, teens, parents and society at large need to stop living, thinking and talking in information bubbles. They must begin asking how plausible the alleged perils are, demanding solid, reproducible evidence to support the assertions, and insisting that alternate viewpoints also be discussed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Few page-one ecological calamities reflect real-world dangers. They\u2019re based on scary scenarios and simulations conjured up by computer models<\/a>, fevered imaginations and agenda-driven propaganda \u2026 and repeated endlessly by journalists, teachers, scientists and politicians who have ideological, financial or partisan stakes in advancing the evidence-free assertions. Literally trillions of dollars are at stake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Few examples receive more attention than rising sea levels inundating coastal communities. In reality, Earth\u2019s oceans have risen some 400 feet since the last of five Ice Ages ended and Pleistocene glaciers began melting 12,000 years ago. As the world continues warming since the Little Ice Age (1350-1850), seas are now rising at a mere 8-9 inches per century<\/a>, though it can seem higher<\/a> because of concurrent land subsidence<\/a> due to oil, gas and water extraction, urban construction and isostatic rebound<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s a far cry from Al Gore\u2019s ludicrous prediction of 20 feet or more \u201cin the near future.\u201d But at least there are a few shreds of history and evidence behind the spookery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other frenzied fables from climate crisis banshees are too far-fetched even for annual liars contests. But they nonetheless cause fear and trembling in many minds and souls. Ponder this compendium gleaned primarily from just one website over just the past four weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arctic ice stability<\/a> is nearing a tipping point, and melting sea ice could cause dangerous loss of phytoplankton vital to marine life \u2013 as well as disastrously rising sea levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rapidly melting Antarctic ice shelves<\/a> may cause global sea levels to rise even faster than expected \u2013 \u201cleaving millions at risk of being plunged underwater\u201d and drowned. Ice shelves and the water they contain are already in the ocean; they can\u2019t make it rise any further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earth\u2019s oceans are becoming \u201cmore acidic<\/a>\u201d and could dissolve corals, shellfish and other organisms. Seawater has never been acidic; it\u2019s slightly alkaline and cannot become more acidic. Atmospheric and oceanic carbon dioxide levels were far higher in prehistoric times and never caused such devastation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Climate change is causing an \u201cunprecedented\u201d slowing of Earth\u2019s rotation<\/a> [by 1.33 milliseconds per century] \u2013 or it might actually be accelerating<\/em> Earth\u2019s rotation<\/a> [by 1.59 milliseconds per century]. Either way, it\u2019s potentially affecting human and animal circadian rhythms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emissions from flying illegal immigrants<\/a> out of the United States are making the climate crisis even worse. Equally disturbing, the climate crisis is bringing more migrants to Europe<\/a>, forcing it to burn more coal and grow or import more food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Climate change could bring deadly and unprecedented summer heat waves<\/a> that add to urban heat island effects<\/a> \u2013 especially if anti-fossil-fuel edicts make air conditioning unavailable or too expensive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Climate change could worsen and intensify hailstorms<\/a> that could destroy millions of solar panels \u2014 with damage calculations dependent on which random assumptions and computer scenarios are used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earth\u2019s changing climate is causing more tornadoes in Michigan<\/a>, making it one of America\u2019s \u201cworst hit\u201d states. The number of violent US tornadoes has decreased by 50%<\/a> since the 1950s and weaker tornado counts are due to better reporting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The climate crisis is now an \u201cinternational public health emergency<\/a>,\u201d like Covid-19<\/a> and Hantavirus<\/a>. It will also cause more heat-related deaths and other infectious diseases \u2013 especially if dependence on unreliable wind and solar power reduces available air conditioning, clean water, modern hospitals, bacteria-killing medicines or other vital technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The risk of snakebites<\/a> is increasing, as reptiles adapt to a changing world driven by climate change. [More lions and tigers and bears, too. Oh my.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rapidly approaching \u201csuper\u201d El Ni\u00f1o<\/a> could kill 50 million people<\/a>, because of climate change \u2013 making it as deadly as the 1887 El Ni\u00f1o [despite modern agricultural technologies and record harvests].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even more frightening, the climate crisis is only going to get worse, because of methane from livestock<\/a>. [Who knew a gas representing just 0.0002% of the atmosphere could be so deadly?] And more carbon dioxide in the air won\u2019t help plants grow faster and with less water, but will actually make our food less healthy<\/a>. Thankfully, though, banning hamburger ads<\/a> could prevent the worst climate crisis problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You knew this one was coming. Rich white men<\/a> are really<\/em> \u201cbad for the planet,\u201d because of their jobs, diets and hobbies, and because they are less concerned than even rich white women about climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Returning to our original topic, we now learn that loneliness caused by climate change<\/a> is killing people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On and on it goes, without letup or interruption. But lest you think this steady stream of absurd climate fearmongering is something new, let me remind you of the Warmlist<\/a> of things allegedly caused by global warming, compiled by Professor John Brignell many years ago \u2013 and even turned into a fun-packed video<\/a> of dangers \u2026 from more allergies and bad beer to more women cheating on vacation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can\u2019t we all just Get a Grip? And help our children Get a Grip?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paul Driessen is senior policy advisor for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (www.CFACT.org<\/a>) and author of books<\/a>, reports and articles<\/a> on energy, environmental, climate and human rights issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No wonder children are experiencing more anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts<\/p>\n

CDC\u2019s 2023 Youth Risk Behavior Survey found that 40% of American students experienced persistent feelings of hopelessness, 28% experienced poor mental health, 20% seriously considered attempting suicide, and 10% had attempted suicide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":450891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691838613,691818056,691819743,691843698,691818285],"class_list":["post-450887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention-cdc","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-propaganda","tag-doom-and-gloom-brainwashing","tag-fearmongering","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/0-Worry-About-Climate-Fearmongering-%E2%80%93-Not-Climate-Change.jpg?fit=1168%2C784&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1Tin","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":254398,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=254398","url_meta":{"origin":450887,"position":0},"title":"Your Taxes at Work: \u2018Eco-Anxiety\u2019 Counseling","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"04\/24\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"This is nonsense, insanity. 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