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July 15, 2008
Global Warming Now Causes Kidney Stones
The liberal elite's attempts to scare people into believing in the nonexistent climate change crisis are becoming increasingly desperate. Now we're told global warming causes kidney stones:
More Americans are likely to suffer from kidney stones in the coming years as a result of global warming, according to researchers at the University of Texas.
Kidney stones, which are formed from dissolved minerals in the urine and can be extremely painful, are often caused by dehydration, either by not drinking enough liquid or losing too much due to high heat conditions.
If global warming trends continue as projected by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2007, the United States can expect as much as a 30 percent growth in kidney stone disease in some of its driest areas, said the findings published in Monday's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The increased incidence of disease would represent between 1.6 million and 2.2 million cases by 2050, costing the US economy as much as one billion dollars in treatment costs.
So you see: crippling the economy with symbolic gestures intended to influence the weather will actually save us money!
Kidney stones have already been added to The List.
On tips from mega and b1bbet.
Posted by Van Helsing at July 15, 2008 7:14 AM
Comments
Does that mean we get to drink more beer?
Posted by: Dwaine at July 15, 2008 8:13 AM
Dwaine:
The answer is no.
Posted by: Van Helsing at July 15, 2008 9:05 AM
Dehydration is yet another myth we are subjected to. We are told that we need 8 8-ounce glasses of water every day, even though there seems to be no evidence for it. So now they say we will get kidney stones due to dehydration because of global warming? So, what, we won't drink when we are thirsty, whatever the temperature is? Or do they think that at higher temperatures there won't be enough liquid water?
Pandering idiots.
Posted by: CoderInCrisis at July 15, 2008 10:28 AM
Next we will hear that GW causes more serious acne breakouts, but calling people "pizza face" will be deemed unacceptable as it's insulting to pizza makers.
Posted by: Pam at July 15, 2008 12:05 PM
Somebody applied for and received a grant for that study, and someone else in a position of authority at the National Academy of Sciences decided to publish it. And now people are supposed to read news stories about it with a straight face. An absolutely astounding assumption of the idiocy of the general populace. I hope they're wrong.
Posted by: Beef at July 15, 2008 3:15 PM
Look at this gross miscalculation of the likelihood of an asteroid strike, involving an error in something as simple as Newtonian mechanics. But predictions of a poorly understood chaotic phenomenon, such as the climate, is of course obviously sound.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at July 15, 2008 6:25 PM
How about we reverse the logic.....
If it can be proved there is no Global Warming, then there must be no kidney stones.....
Logical, no?
Posted by: Aussie-John at July 15, 2008 10:01 PM
