The advent of "climage change delusion":

Last year, an anxious, depressed 17-year-old boy was admitted to the psychiatric unit at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne. He was refusing to drink water. Worried about drought related to climate change, the young man was convinced that if he drank, millions of people would die. The Australian doctors wrote the case up as the first known instance of "climate change delusion."

Robert Salo, the psychiatrist who runs the inpatient unit where the boy was treated, has now seen several more patients with psychosis or anxiety disorders focused on climate change, as well as children who are having nightmares about global-warming-related natural disasters.

Of course people are actually dying as a result of criminal negligence by eco-zealots in Australia. Their refusal to allow common sense conservation measures to thin brush has resulted in these horrific fires.

The article goes on to prescribe an army of shrinks to deal with eco-angst around the world. As I recall, there was a study that showed after Sept. 11th people who picked themselves up and went on with their lives rather than seeing a shrink did better over time. Of course, that was a real tragedy, not a delusional one.