“Gore suffers from Narcissistic Personality Disorder,” says Henry I. Miller, a physician and molecular biologist, a fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution who was formerly an official at the NIH and FDA.

To be honest, I think we had already noticed. If you start a race riding a donkey, you better be prepared to be photographed with him at the end, though we see that there is a growing wish to step away from the one who started this pantomime.

“But for the separation of science and religion,” he [al Gore] laments, “we might not be pumping so much gaseous chemical waste into the atmosphere and threatening the destruction of the earth’s climate balance.” But for the separation of science and religion, we would still be burdened with the notion that the sun and the planets revolve around the Earth.

It’s all the fault of religion then? I don’t think so, not even AGW supporters believe that.

It gets worse. Throughout the [his] book [Earth in the Balance] Gore employs the metaphor that those who believe in technological advances are as sinister and polluters are as evil as the perpetrators of the Holocaust. He accuses Americans of being dysfunctional because we’ve developed “an apparent obsession with inauthentic substitutes for direct experience with real life,” such as “Astroturf, air conditioning and fluorescent lights … Walkman and Watchman, entertainment cocoons, frozen food for the microwave oven,” and so on.

Now it’s the fault of science, but Al Gore doesn’t exactly live the frugal life of a hermit in a cave himself, savouring the joys of nature. Davy Crockett he ain’t.

Dr Miller continues his analysis.

The criteria for this diagnosis, as described in the psychiatrist’s bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, include a “pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration and lack of empathy, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts,” as indicated by these manifestations:

“A grandiose sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements).” Gore regularly demonstrates his grandiosity.

“Preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty or ideal love; believes that he or she is ‘special’ and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions).” These sorts of fantasies run riot in Gore’s book Earth in the Balance, in which he assumes that he and a small number of other elites have divined the solutions to the world’s problems and the bold and dramatic measures that await the education and enlightenment of the public.

It is a major concern that the effects of Global Warming measures will mainly impact the common man whilst leaving the elite, who spend so much time preaching the benefits of self-sacrifice, cocooned in the lap of luxury, leaving them free to pollute the planet as they wish.

Source: Forbes

To give credit where credit is due I came across this American Thinker article this morning entitled, “We Are Doomed – - Again.”  The author, John Dietrich, delves into the history and psychology of apocalyptic predictions including AGW.

It explains a lot about the “why” of these predictions, as related to religions, cults and even science.  I would urge everyone to read it.

He hit upon one term “Pathological Science” that had a Wikipedia link on the subject.  Now, I am aware of some of the things that go on with Wikipedia, but I found this to be very interesting in explaining what is going on with Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) scientists and the effect upon the believers.

To start, here is Wikipedia’s definition of Pathological Science:

Pathological science is the process in science in which “people are tricked into false results … by subjective effects, wishful thinking or threshold interactions“

Sounding familiar?

Irving Langmuir, Nobel winning chemist,  said:

“a pathological science is an area of research that simply will not “go away” —long after it was given up on as ‘false’ by the majority of scientists in the field. He called pathological science “the science of things that aren’t so”

Now this is starting sound REAL familiar.  It explains a lot about what is going on with the battle of warmers vs. deniers  and the “science” surrounding Climategate.

Bart Simon lists it among practices pretending to be science: “categories [.. such as ..]pseudoscience, amateur science, deviant or fraudulent science, bad science, junk science, andpopular science [..] pathological science, cargo-cult science, and voodoo science ..”.^[3] Examples of pathological science may include Martian “canals”, N-rays, polywater, water memory, and cold fusion (which remains controversial as there is ongoing published research).

To this list I would add Anthropogenic Global Warming.

Langmuir further defines Pathological Science as follows:

• The maximum effect that is observed is produced by a causative agent of barely detectable intensity, and the magnitude of the effect is substantially independent of the intensity of the cause.
• The effect is of a magnitude that remains close to the limit of detectability, or many measurements are necessary because of the very low statistical significance of the results.
• There are claims of great accuracy.
• Fantastic theories contrary to experience are suggested.
• Criticisms are met by ad hoc excuses.
• The ratio of supporters to critics rises and then falls gradually to oblivion.

So next time you see a warmer on here spouting non-existent facts please remember that they are really victims of Pathological Science and they are suffering from pathological science induced psychosis.

Note that this does not apply to Al Gore.  He’s anything but a victim and, in fact, I’d wonder if he didn’t get the idea to promote AGW and reap hundreds of millions of dollars for him and his buddies from Irving Langmuir, who no doubt would be rolling in his grave at the thought.  He’s obviously studied Joseph Goebbel’s propaganda techniques, so why not Langmuir?

When you combine the two you it’s a potent combination.

The Prophet Mardi Tindal

We’ve always known man-made global warming believers are nuts. And have we got a story here that will prove it to you.

Mardi Tindal is the newly elected moderator of the United Church of Canada. Before going forward with the story, we just wanted to share a tidbit from the church’s website, on Mardi:

The Moderator invites you to become a green community leader by reflecting deeply on soul, community, and creation, and by taking practical steps in greening your lifestyle, home, and church building.

That’s enough for a story in itself, but wait until you read more about this whack job. You see, she was a delegate to the Climate Summit in Copenhagen, and her life is forever changed due to her disappoint of its failure. Not politically, but psychologically. But don’t worry, she says she is not in a true clinical depression, but rather an “anxious despair.” It began one day while she was and her husband drove to church in Brantford, Ontario:

“I simply wept. My tears were quiet, but I spoke through them, and I was being listened to. My husband said, ‘There is great power in what you have just said, and it is a powerful message that makes clear why you are weeping.’”

“And I said, ‘Doug, I’m weeping for the millions of lives that have been lost as a result of what did and did not happen in Copenhagen,” Ms. Tindal said. “My experience was that I had a place to go with my tears and my lament … It’s an expression of pain for the world’s suffering.”

The author of the article, Joseph Brean, writes:

Climate change could have “significant negative effects on global mental health,” according to a new scientific report in the journal Psychological Medicine. It predicts that many of these negative effects will be felt not by those who are already mentally ill (although they will likely bear the brunt), but also by otherwise healthy people, such as Ms. Tindal, who will suffer “psychological distress, anxiety and traumatic stress.”

The author, U.K. psychiatrist Lisa Page, cites “altered patterns of infectious disease, injuries from severe weather events, food and water scarcity, and population displacement” as mechanisms by which global warming could cause “an increase in the overall burden of mental disorder worldwide.”

Dr. Page cites “preliminary evidence” of more extreme possibilities: that suicide increases above a certain temperature threshold; that schizophrenia increases as populations become more urban; and that “impulsivity and aggression could be triggered during periods of hot weather.”

But wait, we don’t have any new problems of severe weather events, food and water scarcity, and population displacement–Tindal is depressed because she fears what she believes will happen.

The article continues:

At services this Sunday at more than 200 United churches across Canada, a letter by Ms. Tindal was read to her congregations, describing how she was “heartbroken because it was clear to me, as it was to many of you, that the talks in Copenhagen needed to succeed, that it is no longer safe for us to go on as we have before,” and urging them to do “whatever you can imagine” to reduce carbon emissions.

…

“Our moment of opportunity came and then went, and here we are now, the fate of civilization and of millions of the planet’s life forms hanging by the frayed thread of inaction,” she wrote.

And then comes the real proof of her insanity and delusion:

“Like the prophets, like those in our faith tradition who express their own lament because they understand God’s lament, yes, I have been lamenting what did and did not happen,” Ms. Tindal said in the interview. “But lament leads to imagination, and we move through lament to hope.”

Most striking is her identification with Martin Luther King, Jr., and his Letter from Birmingham Jail, with its era-defining declaration of the “moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws,” which she took to Copenhagen for inspiration.

“He refused to wait and called on everyone to act. I too believe the time for waiting has run out,” she wrote.

She compares “those who would say faith leaders have no place in addressing the issue of climate change” with the “white church leaders” who said Rev. King “should stick to his knitting.”

“What if, instead of racial segregation, King had spoken about high greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere? Would his words hold? It seems clear to me that they would ring loud and true,” she wrote.

The prophet Mardi Tindal: Nuts. Delusional. Self-absorbed. Global Warmer.

Original article: National Post