Global warming is going to turn us all crazy! That is, crazier than the warmists already are:

A report from Australia’s Climate Institute which links global warming with mental illness is already drawing eyerolls from a central academic in the global climate-change debate.

In its report, the anti-carbon emissions organization argues that a spike in severe weather events in Australia coincides with increased rates of anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress and substance abuse.

“Climate change will have many adverse impacts on Australians’ health — physical risks, infectious diseases, heat-related ill effects, food safety and nutritional risks, mental health problems and premature deaths,” the Climate Institute declared. “The emerging burden of climate-related impacts on community morale and mental health—bereavement, depression, post-event stress disorders, and the tragedy of self-harm — is large, especially in vulnerable rural areas.”

So they think there will be more work for mental health professionals in Australia due to global warming. In the US, the administration would just call that “stimulus.”

Extraterrestrial edition! A bunch of bozo “scientists” have come up with a new global warming scare tactic, and it sure is a doozy (Hat-tip: Yid With Lid):

It may not rank as the most compelling reason to curb greenhouse gases, but reducing our emissions might just save humanity from a pre-emptive alien attack, scientists claim.

Watching from afar, extraterrestrial beings might view changes in Earth’s atmosphere as symptomatic of a civilisation growing out of control – and take drastic action to keep us from becoming a more serious threat, the researchers explain.

This highly speculative scenario is one of several described by a Nasa-affiliated scientist and colleagues at Pennsylvania State University that, while considered unlikely, they say could play out were humans and alien life to make contact at some point in the future.

This is ridiculous on its face, and not because it involves aliens. Surely any alien species would comprehend, better than our own alarmist scientists, that the Earth has had higher CO2 levels before and that climates are complicated things driven by more than a singular factor. Besides, CO2 isn’t exactly dangerous in space, so why would they even care?

Any space-faring species would have had to exploit considerable natural resources to get to that stage of development. Why would they judge us for doing the same? Too many humans are ashamed of our own species, and these scientists are simply projecting their anti-human-advancement attitudes onto fictitious aliens.