Over 70 Percent Of UK Children Now Afraid Of The Weather
More than 70 percent of UK children aged 7-12 are now afraid of ‘climate change’, according to the results of a survey.
It comes amid reports from various experts that children and teenagers of various demographics are experiencing high rates of mental health difficulties, with one school counselor earlier this year saying that anxiety rates have hit an all-time high post-lockdown. [emphasis, links added]
According to a report by Euronews, the survey — which polled 1,000 children born between 2010 and 2015 on their views regarding the environment — found that a total of 71 percent of respondents were now worried about environmental changes.
27 percent of respondents in particular said that the impact changing global temperatures were having on animals is their greatest concern, while just under one in five were most concerned about plastic pollution.
The survey is one of the latest examples of so-called eco-anxiety — extreme worry in relation to the climate or dangers to the environment — affecting children at a time when educational systems are focusing more and more on ongoing issues to do with emissions and potential catastrophic rise of sea levels.
A study published earlier this year found that a significant number of children now also appear to be experiencing “a variety of emotions such as anger, sadness, guilt, and hopelessness that characterize eco-anxiety”, though noted that more research into the phenomenon’s impact on children in particular needed to be done.
Such anxiety comes at a time when many young people are already experiencing major mental health difficulties for a wide variety of reasons, with some experts even suspecting that the on-and-off worldwide COVID lockdowns have had a seriously detrimental effect on the well-being of children.
“Kids have the highest level of anxiety I’ve ever seen: anxiety about basic safety and fear of what could happen,” one Colorado school counselor told a New York Times investigation earlier this year.
Others remarked that their students had ended up “frozen, socially and emotionally, at the age they were when the pandemic started,” seemingly as a result of lockdown-related isolation.
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Jerry Krause
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Hi PSI Readers,
(https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/scientists-were-first-who-dared-to-forecast-an-act-of-god/920908)
This link is something you should read if you are interesting in the history of the weather forecasting of the National Weather Service. I am unable to summarize what you can read if you have an interest in what you can read.
I will only quote one sentence to tempt you. “They spent several days studying the weather patterns that preceded past outbreaks until they eventually diagnosed a synoptic pattern that looked eerily familiar.”
Have a good day, Jerry
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Kevin Doyle
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Thank you, Peter Caddle for your article.
This is truly sick.
Our technically illiterate political leaders and media are preaching a completely false narrative.
It is thermodynamically impossible for CO2, nor any other gas, freezing cold at 15,000 foot elevation to ‘warm’ anything! Does the ice at the to top of the Matterhorn warm the valley below?
Environmental retards would say, “Yes!”
This is the greatest ‘pseudo-scientific’ hoax ever perpetrated!
Completely foolish theory which violates all Laws of Thermodynamics and Radiational Heat Transfer.
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Jerry Krause
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Hi Hevin,
I doubt, but do not know, that when you made your comment you had not yet read my comment which hadn’t yet been posted because it was “awatomg .moderation”.
I could not for a “good” article to comment about this story which was just sent to me in an email. But this story tells how it was for two Air Force meteorologists to discover how radar would be used to predict the threat of tornadoes. But this story is not commonly known based upon my experiences
Please comment upon your conclusions after you read this story.
Have a good day, Jerry
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