Anyone who isn't anxious about the future at this point, is deep in denial. They are willfully "not seeing" what is happening around them because it contradicts their internal worldview.
You are right to feel anxious. Things are about to get a lot worse. Saying that, accepting that fact, doesn't make you crazy. It makes you forewarned.
The reason I am doing two columns on Climate is that "Living in Bomb Time" is mostly about just climate science. What the numbers say.
The "Crisis Report" is analysis of the "irrational whims" as you put it. Because I agree, "that is the most scary thing about the turmoil that we face".