We need more research into autism spectrum disorders in girls. When you look at deranged SJW women, you have to wonder how often their monomaniacal activism is actually a symptom of undiagnosed Asperger's. Like you can have X opinion or Y opinion about climate change, but then you have some people who develop a strange fixation on it as if it is THE issue of our age, for which they should drop all other activities.

In Belgium, a government minister responsible for the environment was forced to resign last month because she claimed in a speech to farmers that the climate strikes and protests did not arise organically, implying some kind of astroturfing or outside agitators. She also claimed that she had information about this from the Belgian intelligence services, who promptly went on record denying this. Her private phone number was leaked to the public by climate organisations, and she got bombarded with so many calls, texts, and emails that she couldn't even reach her family. Basically she had to be destroyed as a human being because she said something a bit too stridently, based on unverified reports. I sure would like to be governed by the kind of people who think that's normal.

We had very nice and sunny weather in Northern and Western Europe from the last weekend through to around Wednesday, with several temperature records broken. The weatherman on Dutch public broadcasting said that this "gives us a look into the future, which not only brings pleasure, but also trouble up ahead". SCIENCE! is going to investigate whether this particular half week of nice weather was caused by anthropogenic climate change. Yeah, good luck trying to prove that.

I read an article in a right-wing paper about "climate stress" the other day. There are now "climate psychologists" and "climate coaches" who help people with the guilt and shame concerning their ecological footprint. Terms used in this context are "flight shame", "shower guilt", "meat concerns", "climate grief", etc. Of course those suffering are all middle-class leftists who love to travel the world for the perfect narcissistic selfie, so you can imagine the burning guilt. I have mentioned before that this is a reversion to Paganism and nature worship.

They interviewed some people making money from this shit who pretended there's no panic at all, it's just people looking for actionable advice. They also interviewed two people who made a lot of sense on this topic, a psychologist and a traditionalist Catholic priest:

"Fear is a great way to make money," says psychologist Jeffrey Wijnberg. "You get to feel good about yourself, while the commercial practitioner gets a nice bottom line. Besides, people are herd animals. We imitate each other. When one person does something, the other does it as well.

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Wijnberg calls this guilt that people infect each other with. "Are you going on holiday by plane again? Do you really shower that often? That phenomenon is actually going around in the Netherlands. Either you live a righteous life or you live an evil life. Either you go to heaven or you go to hell. It has taken on all the characteristics of a religion."

Father Harm Schilder from Bladel agrees. The man is known as a traditionalist in the Catholic Church. He sees similarities between religion and the way people deal with climate. It looks like a return to the ancient religion of nature, with the worship of the sun and the wind.

"Christianity is getting weaker, and people are wondering: is climate the new God? In any event, it's the deification of natural reality. I don't think that's wise, because in a healthy religion, which I try to propagate as a Catholic, common sense is still fully involved.

Schilder partly blames climate panic on one-sided doom narratives in the media and failing schools. "When education has failed to cultivate critical faculties, this is a possible result."

The priest still remains optimistic: "I'm seeing a counter-movement emerging carefully. I think people want more realism. Of course we need to take good care of all living things, but we have insisted on care for God's creation for centuries."

He wonders if climate panic is not a luxury problem. "It's certainly not stress about a concrete fact, like the streets being flooded ten metres high. It's more like a kind of mental anguish."

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Wijnberg connects this [the fanaticism of people devoting their lives to climate activism] to the policy makers. "I get the idea that this is being stimulated from a very high level; I don't know how high. To make energy transition possible, it may be good to do some scaremongering to get citizens involved. That's why we keep seeing that footage of lost polar bears or ice caps mounting. It's a cocktail of fear, doubt, and a lack of perspective that does a lot to people."