Showing posts with label climate change. Show all posts
Showing posts with label climate change. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Is climate change getting to your head?

apparently for some, it is.

"Last year, an anxious, depressed 17-year-old boy was admitted to the psychiatric unit at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne. He was refusing to drink water. Worried about drought related to climate change, the young man was convinced that if he drank, millions of people would die. The Australian doctors wrote the case up as the first known instance of 'climate change delusion.'"

This is more extreme than the idea of climate change damaging polar bear's hearing through the sounds of melting ice.

what more will climate change bring?

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

The effects of climate change are so harmful that...

This made me laugh!

as a person with minor hearing problems, and despite the initial obvious finding that bears have much more sensitivity to sound than humans have, can I say that "global warming" the noise of melting ice has impeded on my listening since I have grown up in a melting climate in my the Arctic the first 19 years of my life? huh?