Straight Line of the Day: Feeling Cranky? Irritable? Have You Consulted Your Climate Psychiatrist?

Straight Line of the Day: Feeling cranky? Irritable? Have you consulted your Climate Psychiatrist?

Feeling Cranky? Irritable? You’re Not Alone Amid Widespread Heat Wave
John Murphy | AccuWeather | Jul. 22, 2022

“Almost everybody knows that they get really cranky and really irritated when the heat goes up,” Robin Cooper, the president of Climate Psychiatry Alliance, told AccuWeather National Reporter Kim Leoffler.

“You can’t be in the mindset that, ‘Oh, it’s a heat wave, it’s temporary, I’m just going to get through it.’ No — heat waves can be killers.”

and for the — shall we say, less perceptive? — out there:

“Don’t stay in overheated apartments,” she said.

And now for some hard-hitting reporting, not phoning it in at all:

Larger pets were also cooling off in their own ways, such as a Pembroke Welsh Corgi [“larger”? — ed.] named Fraya in Ontario, Canada. Freya could be seen, in a photo taken by her owner, Jennifer Stuber, after having apparently taken a dip in the cool water along Cherry Beach in Toronto.

“It was her fourth time this summer, twice this week since it has been very warm!” Stuber told AccuWeather.

That’s what you call an in-depth investigation.  In depth.  That’s a joke, son!

21 Comments

  1. I’m here for my med management appointment? The voices have been getting louder.

    Yeah, about that. We’re swapping out your lithium for a solar panel, your Haldol for a Tesla lease, and your Risperidone for this free coupon for 30% off of climate offsets. The voices won’t go away, but we can assure you they will be smug.

  2. Remember when temperatures ran away
    According to the media chumps and I begged it
    Just to stop because I’d go berserk?
    WELL,
    You cooked the data anyhow and
    Then the reporting got worse and worse
    And now you see I’ve gone completely
    out of my mind,
    AND
    They’re coming to take me away,
    Haha, they’re coming to take me away,
    Ho ho, hee hee, ha ha,
    To the funny farm
    Where Life is Beautiful all the time
    And I’ll be happy to see
    Those Nice Young Men
    With their climate modeling
    And they’re coming to take me AWAY,
    HA HAAAAA
    You thought it was a joke,
    and so you LAUGHED, YOU LAUGHED
    When I had said that climate change
    Would make me flip my lid,
    RIGHT?
    You know you laughed.
    I HEARD you laugh, you laughed
    At my protests that data
    Was being ignored,
    But now you know I’m Utterly Mad
    AND
    They’re coming to take me away,
    Haha, they’re coming to take me away,
    Ho ho, hee hee, ha ha,
    To the Happy Home with Trees and Flowers
    And Climate Limits and data weavers
    Who sit and smile and
    Twiddle their graphs and slide shows
    And they’re coming to Take me Away,
    HAHAAAAAAAAA
    I cooked your charts,
    I cleaned your lists,
    And this is how you pay me back
    For all my kind unselfish climate deeds
    HUH?
    Well, you just wait,
    They’ll fine you yet,
    And when they do, they’ll send you off
    to Lagos, you mangy MUTT,
    AND

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