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You basically can't trust a word he says or cites.

He mostly cites the IPCC and climate scientists. Or are you saying those sources aren't trustworthy?

I read the article. Every word of it is true. It can be summed up as:

Lots of people, especially teenagers, are starting to suffer mental health problems because they think the world is about to end. The world isn't about to end, this is a lie. The people claiming it is are mostly making it up, or misquoting other people, or in one case a journalist misheard "eight billion" as "a billion" and other comedies of errors. It's important that people understand what climate science really says before a teenager does something they can't come back from.

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> Lots of people, especially teenagers, are starting to suffer mental health problems because they think the world is about to end

Can you source this?

> It's important that people understand what climate science really says before a teenager does something they can't come back from.

Are you saying that climate change is so widely accepted and feared that it's causing the rate of suicides to increase? Wouldn't a better indicator of the acknowledgement of (supposedly-overblown) effects of climate change be, you know, individuals and governments taking action to curtail those effects instead of walking out of global accords [1], or actively contributing to the acceleration of those effects [2]?

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40127326 [2] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/18/world/americas/brazil-ama...

Can you source this?

The first paragraphs of the article give both direct quotes from people saying they had that experience, and then cites a report from British psychologists saying they'd observed this effect at scale. Did you read the article?

Are you saying that climate change is so widely accepted and feared that it's causing the rate of suicides to increase.

It risks doing exactly that:

"Studies from around the world document growing anxiety and depression, particularly among children, about climate change."

People aren't scared of climate change as actually observed, they're scared of what they're being fed by people like Greta Thunberg, who is lying about the expected scale of the impact. The fact that journalists, politicians and even a few scientists are saying this despite it being false is what the article is about.

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