Hey, look, more gloom and doom from the Cult of Climastrology, which can be solved with a tax! But, certainly, the people who say this won’t actually give up their own fossil fueled travel, like from Boston to Edmonton (interestingly, the article has changed since when I saved it to Pocket this morning
Climate change can affect mental health, expert tells Edmonton conference
Climate change can impact mental health in a variety of ways, an American expert told an international conference Tuesday in Edmonton.
People get stressed when confronted with a problem of the magnitude of climate change, said Patrick Kinney, urban health professor at Boston University. He spoke to Postmedia at the Cities and Climate Change Science Conference at the Shaw Conference Centre.
Really, it’s just a small number of people who are making themselves nuts worrying about things they have no control of and mostly not causing.
The big issue in Canada is wildfires, he said.
“Climate change is making wildfires more prominent,†he said. “They are getting bigger, they are lasting longer.â€
And wildfires, besides causing cardiovascular and respiratory effects from air pollution, can force people to leave their homes, as happened in Fort McMurray in 2016.
Wildfires never happened before the invention of the combustion engine, you know.
Northern latitudes have been and will be warming more rapidly than the rest of the globe, said William Solecki, a professor at City University of New York and co-director of the Urban Climate Change Research Network.
In other words, it’s only a small part of the world that is showing warming, they don’t know why, so, hey, what the hell, they’ll just blame Mankind. They just have to keep making it all up in order to perpetuate the fascist and tax raising ways.
