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In 2003 Dr Charles Krauthammer, a former speech writer to Vice President Walter Mondale, coined the term Bush Derangement Syndrome, which he defined as “the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people in reaction to the policies, the presidency — nay — the very existence of George W. Bush.”

Now the psychiatrist at Royal Children’s Hospital in Australia have identified a “previously unreported phenomenon” which consists of a first case of “climate change delusion” in a 17-year-old. It notes that “The patient had also developed the belief that, due to climate change, his own water consumption could lead within days to the deaths of millions of people through exhaustion of water supplies.” Full article is available here.