Comments on: Kidney Stones and Global Warming – Again

By: Evan Jones

Evan Jones — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:46:39 +0000

This, too, shall pass.

By: Russ R.

Russ R. — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:54:25 +0000

We need a “Top 100 List” of the things the media will blame on climate alarmism. I offer this tidbit, from the “Why think, when it is so much easier to just blame it on AGW” file:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080718/ap_on_sc/brazil_dead_penguins_2

By: vanderleun

vanderleun — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:17:32 +0000

Every time I think it is not possible for the hysteria to suck more deeply, something like this comes along and the bottom just opens up.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:57:08 +0000

Actually the story is starting to make sense.

It’s all our retired Canadians moving down south to escape the incessant cold of their igloos.

They forget to increase their hydration once down in the balmy state of Florida and viola, kidney stones.

More and more are retiring to Florida, therefore increased cases of stones.

Why didn’t I see this before, It all makes sense now. We need to get the word out, perhaps a sign at the airports or the state border….

“Hydration is the key to kidney salvation”

By: Ric Werme

Ric Werme — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:11:37 +0000

[This may be a duplicate, if so, humble apologies.]

The Beeb says in http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7510541.stm :

“At the time of the anoxic event, the average temperature was nearly twice that of today, researchers say. ”

Is that in today’s degrees (Celcius), yesterday’s degrees (Fahrenheit) or not really degrees for all seasons (Kelvins)?

Whenever I read a comment like that I’m so distracted trying to figure out what they meant that I never absorb the rest of the content.

By: Ric Werme

Ric Werme — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:54:25 +0000

The Beeb says in http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7510541.stm :

“At the time of the anoxic event, the average temperature was nearly twice that of today, researchers say. ”

Is that in today’s degrees (Celcius), yesterday’s degrees (Fahrenheit) or not really degrees for all seasons (Kelvins)?

Whenever I read a comment like that I’m so distracted trying to figure out what they meant that I never absorb the rest of the content.

By: peter naegele

peter naegele — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:18:40 +0000

This fits in with the mental disorder category of "climate change delusion" mentioned a few posts back. As I mentioned, it's a good thing we're heading into nto a global COOLING cycle again!

By: Leon Brozyna

Leon Brozyna — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:54:28 +0000

Speaking of scientific studies being pushed by the media, here’s the latest from that tower of journalistic integrity reporting on a study that examines a marine die-off 95 million years ago:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7510541.stm

Anticipating everyone’s question, yes, of course there’s a tie-in to global warming. Can you imagine the prodigious amount of studies that will have to be redone once the AGW fantasy gets the boot?

By: Leon Brozyna

Leon Brozyna — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:08:39 +0000

It’s a true environmentalist story — it’s been recycled.

By: Fat Man

Fat Man — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:52:17 +0000

I had a kidney stone many years ago. It was during the summer. The doctor told me to drink more beer. I followed his advice and I never had another stone. I have become very cheerful too.

By: Patrick Henry

Patrick Henry — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:50:07 +0000

There are many real world health issues which people could be dealing with instead of these imaginary ones 70 years from now.

Jimmy Carter may have been a useless politician and president, but he has done some great work as a humanitarian helping to eradicate disease in Africa. Have a look at his site, and in particular the part about Guinea Worms.
http://www.cartercenter.org/health/guinea_worm/index.html

It is disgusting when “health professionals” shirk responsibility to get their 15 minutes of global warming fame.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:28:29 +0000

This is really something, I had a kidney stone a few years ago. I can now sleep better knowing it was caused by global warming and not some poor dietary choices I was making at the time. :)

By: Alan Cheetham

Alan Cheetham — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:13:21 +0000

I also did some documentation of the kidney stone issue in May at: http://www.appinsys.com/GlobalWarming/US_KidneyStones.htm providing documentation of studies linking kidney stones to obesity and HadCRU graphs showing no warming in the US southeast.

By: deadwood

deadwood — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:46:33 +0000

Here we go again! Another useless bit of derivative fluff parading itself as science.

First make a model and then hold it to be true regardless of actual real world data. Once critical mass is achieved in accepting the model as reality, then use the model to predict all the “proof” necessary to grind civilization to dust.

By: Johnnyb

Johnnyb — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:34:44 +0000

Asked my dad, who is a urologist with 40 years in practice about this one and he had only one word for it, “Baloney.”