Global Warming Stress Syndrome Increasing, Psychologist Says

http://wmbriggs.com/blog/2008/02/13/global-warming-stress-syndrome-increasing-psychologist-says/ ^ | William M Briggs

[mattstat]

There has been a disturbing increase in Global Warming Stress Syndrome (GWSS, pronounced gwiss) according to Dr. Ron N. Hyde, a clinical psychologist at the prestigious McKitrick Center for the Especially Disturbed.

“Since April, there is been a 32.817% increase in public cases of GWSS,” he explained. “The rate now is almost double what it was this time last year.” He added the trend was very worrying to his colleagues.

According to literature provided by the McKitrick Center, GWSS was at first a disease confined to academics, where it was thought to be controllable...

[Slapshot68]

Or otherwise known as “Insanity.”

[rovenstinez]

I think a good treatment for them would be to take a bus to Icebox, Minnesota. That ought to get rid of this disease, especially if they hurry!

[period end of story]

The War on Climate Terror (WOCT) can be very stressful!

[Nailbiter]

The stress is from not screaming/beating the stupid a-holes perpetrating this psuedo -science , money grab

[NewHampshireDuo]

Remember just after the 2000 election when “psychologists” in Florida were treating acute cases of BDS?

[LRS]

Sue Al Gore. Make him PROVE his statements.

[Smokin' Joe]

Well, at least there is one thing they can blame on it. Sheesh!

[BunnySlippers]

Al Gore is the poster child for GWSS.

[littlehouse36]

Antidote for GWSS: Kill your TV, bury it in a landfill. Move on.

[RangerM]

McKitrick Center for the Especially Disturbed

Seriously, does anybody think this is as funny as I do?

Is this place in California? Maybe they could get some of that medical marijuana. That ought to immobilize them, or at least keep them running between the TV and the fridge; instead of amuck

[stayathomemom]

Dr Hyde explained, “All the classic manifestations are there. Mayor Bloomberg didn’t actually say—yet—that we should hunt down and kill those who exhale exorbitant amounts of carbon dioxide, but he implied it.”

Looks like we should ban the Olympics, and for that matter, all major sporting events where athletes might become winded.

[Hatteras]

There's a cure for that, you know....

[Dixie Yooper]

When your common sense is trying to tell you the truth and you ignorant bullheadedness won’t allow you to admit the truth, something is going to break...

[sauropod]

read

[napscoordinator]

Oh my Gosh!!! You have got to be kidding. What losers these folks must be. I tell you I never think about Global Warming unless I am on FR. In fact, if not for FR, I probably would not even know about Global Warming. lol.

[ishabibble]

Chicken Little in a straitjacket!

[HenpeckedCon]

Global warming stress syndrome is also rare here in the Boston area. Lately we’ve been more worried about getting frostbite than we are about “heat trapping” gas emissions.

[LRS]

Indeed. Al Gore is also the nut screaming “Fire!” in the crowded theater. If he could, Al would set a fire just to claim the title of “hero”...

[G Larry]

GWSS = The stress resulting from scientists who know better trying to convince others of their lies.
They feel guilty rationalizing that limiting industry and population growth justifies their false correlations and campain to increase their own funding.

[ALPAPilot]

Nice day up here in the Boston area isn’t it. Global Warming? My kids are home from school for yet another snow day - where’s Dr. Phil when I need him.

[LimaLimaMikeFoxtrot]

Seriously, does anybody think this is as funny as I do?

Yes. I do. After I nearly spit my coffee while laughing, I was convinced this had to be from Scrappleface.

[Wildbill22]

Reverend Al Gore finally made it through divinity school, of sorts. He has a religion, and he is the leader of a misguided flock. He has hysteria close to that of the Cold War, and a solution with a vision that includes every one of us on the scale of the moon landing. All on a unproven flawed premise.
And on top of that, he has a money making machine in the form of his carbon credit scam to fund his church, complete with tax deductions.
Too bad the weather doesn’t seem to be cooperating. An inconvenient weather forecast for the Midwest, China (where the army has to supply cities with supplies due to the massive snowfall)and elsewhere, the liberal gods of Al’s religion are not making it easy for his argument, so the chicken Little's of the world will continue to look like moonbats from the hyperbolic fever swamps of the extreme left. Good luck Al, you make the right, anything right of him, look good.

[CPOSharky]

Patient Zero: Al Gore

(This is The Onion, right? Heh, heh.))

[Loud Mime]

“I once walked into a crowded firehouse and yelled “movie!”’
Stephen Wright

[KoRn]

First we had increased zombie attacks and now this!

God help us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[HenpeckedCon]

I was listening for to the “no work” closings this morning, but as usual I didn’t hear my company’s name. I’m in work-n-freep mode if you know what I mean?

[mesoman7]

I suffer from A.S.S.

Adversity to Stupidity Syndrome...

[Comstock1]

The sign of a really good parody is that it takes a while to actually tell its all a joke.

This one was all too believable.

[almcbean]

Ron N. Hyde
Center for the Especially Disturbed

Methinks that Mr. Briggs has his tongue firmly implanted in cheek. Check his article on increased zombie activity due to GW.

[metesky]

“Since April, there is been a 32.817% increase in public cases of GWSS,” he explained.

I'm not going to start worrying until we get to 32.818%.

[Vor Lady]

There has been a disturbing increase in Global Warming Stress Syndrome (GWSS, pronounced gwiss) according to Dr. Ron N. Hyde, a clinical psychologist at the prestigious McKitrick Center for the Especially Disturbed.

This sounds like the premise for a bad movie.

[Vor Lady]

LOL! I started laughing as soon as I saw the name of that place. Medical marijuana, good idea!

[MacDorcha]

HAH! Ron N. Hyde. I didn’t even catch that!

[maggief]

Dr. Hyde described typical symptoms: “A belief that mankind causes every bad event, excessive hand-wringing, frequent bowel movements, a tendency to lurk on internet message boards and post things such as, ‘There is a consensus! There is a consensus!’, an irrational desire to measure one’s personal ‘carbon footprint.’” But the most worrying of all is the, “Urge to make idiotic comments in public tying global warming to any event.”

LOL!

[mattstat]

No, no “Onion” or “Scrapple” (?). Just the result of me having too much coffee.

[jimfree]

Humans need an apocalypse. Remember the nuclear thing just a couple decades ago.

[Wildbill22]

When it is difficult to tell a joke from fact, the subject matter must be far out there. Case and point. Good one though, but it further proves how the Al Gore left are nothing less than chicken little moonbats from the hyperbolic feverswamps of the extreme left. And it confounds me how they have legitimacy with our media culture.

[jimfree]

“Since April, there is been a 32.817% increase in public cases of GWSS,”

Caught me posting a serious response. Says something about how well it fit in with current events. Beware excessive precision in press releases.

[ZinGirl]

I'm not going to start worrying until we get to 32.818%.

LOL... excatly.

I'm thinking someone who can't say, "roughly 33%" is wound WAY too tightly to be working at a "Center for Especially Disturbed" people. geez. (is he really working there, or is he a patient?)

[Wildbill22]

Gullible the left is. It gives me an idea. Why can’t I sell carbon credits? As a matter of fact, I have a little land. I could, for a fee, plant a tree, name it, send a picture to the gullible, hug it every now and then, and when it is all grown years from now and forgotten by the guilt burdened donor, cut it down and sell to the lumber yard. I could make money coming and going, and probably get tax benefits as well!
I think I am onto something here.

[Wildbill22]

Good point, LOL.

[bfree]

funny stuff, so are some of his other essays!!

[steelyourfaith]

Beam me to Planet Gore !

The Best Global Warming Videos on the Internet

• Part I ...,. Documentaries
• Part II .............. Lectures
• Part III .............. Debates
• Part IV ..... Short Videos
• Part V ................ Humor

WeatherQuestions
Roy Spencer, the Official Climatologist of the EIB Network

[TYVets]

Al Gore is also the nut screaming “Fire!” in the crowded theater. If he could, Al would set a fire just to claim the title of “hero”...

My glasses are fogged up this morning from the cold, is that "hero" or is it "Nero" in your post?

[Hiddigeigei]

Aw come on, don't take this joke seriously.
Political Humor/Cartoon although not from Scrabbleface.

[RangerM]

That’s why I was laughing.

[wbill]

Wonder if one of the therapies for this is to "Turn off Your TV".

Not listening to all the talking heads would help. That, and a quick trip to someplace north of the Mason-Dixon line, right about now.

[tom h]

"Global Warming Stress Syndrome Increasing, Psychologist Says"

I rank this affliction right up there with "UFO Stress Syndrome." Meaning, what happens to idiots with educations from liberal colleges who spend too much time drinking lattes, reading the New York Times, and contemplating their navels.

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

McKitrick Center for the Especially Disturbed

Seriously, does anybody think this is as funny as I do?