Pass the water please
From the “You’ve got to be freakin kidding me department” comes this proof positive that EVERYTHING is caused by global warming. Yessirree folks, my cat coughed up a hairball last night, must be global warming causing him to lick off too much fur.
From the Thaindian News and here it is on Science Daily so no, I’m not making this up.
Washington, May 15 (ANI): Global warming may lead to an increase in kidney stones disease, says a new study.
Dehydration has been linked to stone disease, mainly in warmer climates, and global warming will worsen this effect, according to the researchers.
As a result, the prevalence of stone disease may increase, along with the costs of treating the condition.
Using published data to determine the temperature-dependence of stone disease, researchers applied predictions of temperature increase to determine the impact of global warming on the incidence and cost of stone disease in the United States.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change indicates a 1-20 C increase in temperature by 2050 for much of the United States. These findings place a greater significance on the harmful effects of global warming, an ongoing economic and political issue.
The southern United States is considered the stone belt because these states have higher incidences of kidney stones. Rising global temperatures could expand this region; the fraction of the U.S. population living in high-risk stone zones is predicted to grow from 40 percent in 2000 to 50 percent by 2050.
This could lead to an increase of one to two million lifetime cases of stone disease. The impact of climate-related changes in stone disease will be non-uniformly distributed and likely concentrated in the southern half of the country (linear model) or upper Midwest (non-linear model).
The cost associated with treating stone disease could climb as high as one 1 billion dollars annually by 2050, representing a 10-20 percent increase over present-day estimates.
The study was presented at the 103rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Urological Association. (ANI)
And those fools in San Franscisco city government just banned bottled water – ouch, that hurts.
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Global Warming, is there anything it can’t do?
Apparently it cannot reduce cold weather deaths!
Sheesh. Sounds like it should have been promulgated by beer manufacturers. “Drink more beer or you’ll get kidney stones!” Oddly enough, there are those of us in the south who manage to live our entire lives without kidney stones.
Yes there is one thing global warming can’t do, make ignorant people smarter.
Ignorance, the most expensive commodity made by mankind.
Researching global warming? Careful…you may be contributing to global warming:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080507155305.htm
30 years from now, a new generation will be browsing the internet archives & wondering what the heck some of us were thinking…
It will make you pee fire! FIRE FIRE! melt those glaciers with fire pee!
I cannot even begin to describe how angry this makes me with this.
Wow, Bob Dylan was right, “everybody must get stoned”.
Everybody Must Get Stoned.
Bob Dylan was a Prophet.
Maybe the headline should read “The prevalence of people appearing to be stoned may increase as the AGW hysteria takes over”
Well, if AGW could redo my roof and pay for it ,too, then I’d be whole hog for it. LOL
Bumper sticker for your electric runabout:
“Chilling Bears and Preventing Stones”
You sure you didn’t make this up ?
If you study all the recent fearmongering articles hitting the media in the past month or so, you have to come away with the thought the Pogies are flooding the media with these absurd stories to take everyone’s mind off the fact it’s cold out there!
All their claims continue tumbling like so much tumbleweed, they’ve gone into panic city. Unfortunately, it seems our booze soaked “leaders” don’t have a clue about reality and they simply “go along to get along.”
Jack Koenig, Editor
The Mysterious Climate Project
http://www.climateclinic.com
http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm
jeez said: “http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm”
Now that’s funny… and amazing! I just sent the URL out on my comedy list (~2,500 folks).
Jack Koenig, Editor
The Mysterious Climate Project
http://www.climateclinic.com
I like the part where the article claims that the study used IPCC estimates of temperature increase from 1-20 C. Could someone please point out where the IPCC ever endorsed anything as high as a 20 degree rise in temperatures by 2050. I don’t doubt that some of the zealots would love to get that thrown in, but they do have to be at least in the realm of possibility with their predictions. Don’t they?
jeez: Too funny!
(I was holding out okay until I got to “Blackbirds Stop Singing”.)
The extinction list was prime.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change indicates a 1-20 C increase in temperature by 2050 for much of the United States.
Say, WHAT? I think someone lost a decimal point along the way.
Global Warming, is there anything it can’t do?
Apparently not.
GW has replaced the Wom Pom.
“The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change indicates a 1-20 C increase in temperature by 2050 for much of the United States.”
Did someone forget a decimal point?
They might be right about that, though. In the last few days, Aloha has had a temperature (daily high) increase of over 20 C!
I think I feel a twinge in my back…
Another thing caused by global warming is media apathy. Steadily I have been ignoring more and more everything the media reports.
Tut tut Anthony,
you have (had?) a good informative blog here with some sterling work on temperature sensors. Now it is descending into a farce with cheap shots at Al Gore and this sort of reporting about cats furballs being caued by global warming! When next months temperatures show a sharp rise even though all the cyclical trends (sunspots, PDO and La Nina) should cause global cooling then we will see the models that are effective and which are fuelled by hot air from anti AGW conspiracy theorists. By the way Elvis IS dead and not caused by global warming.
REPLY: “By the way Elvis IS dead and not caused by global warming.” Nice to see you join in with the sort of commentary you label as farcical. 😉
I’m just busy this last two weeks so I’ve made some light humor for reading. Regularly scheduled programming will return next week.
I think this blog should be re named ‘I don’t believe it!’.
I saw it expressed, maybe in one of Lomborg’s works, that the entire effect of predicted warming was like moving south (for NH folks) for 200 miles. Is there a kidney stone distribution that shows more in the south US than the north? Didn’t think so. And don’t most USians in fact spend the majority of their lives in a thermostatically controlled temperature? And humidity? And don’t nearly all of them know to have a drink when you get thirsty?
“indicates a 1-20 C increase in temperature by 2050 for much of the United States”
Wow!!!! The level of precision is amazing!!! How can they be so accurate yet guarantee that their prediction comes true?!? Tax payer money well spent.
I will now use the same prediction methods to determine the outcome of the US presidential election using my complex computer model:
The next president of the United States of America will be (alphabetically) somewhere between Clinton – Obama.
I have just read that obesity is CAUSING global warming (rather than the other way around) so that is a refreshing change:
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080515/tsc-uk-food-climate-obesity-011ccfa.html
50,000 Chinese dead in the earthquake, and Gore STILL hasn’t blamed Global Warming? What is wrong with the guy? Is he getting lazy? Is he too busy counting his money to think up stupid press statements? Or maybe he is just relaxing in the polar bear-lined interior of his super-polluting private jet as he flies around the world telling us to conserve oil and polar bears.
There is a serious point to this, though; the ubiquitous rise of scatterbrained journalism that will link anything to GW, no matter how bizarre or contradictory. Watch out for the telltale phrasing – “Global warming may lead to…”, “Warming might cause…”, “Climate change might create…”, “Scientists believe…”, “Most experts agree…” And notice that most of these bad things caused by warming – tooth decay, cat mite epidemics, koalas falling out of trees, Planet Earth spinning out of control – are not actually happening at the moment but in the scary near future. Next year, next decade, coming real soon… Just wait and see… You’ll be sorry… 🙂
“then we will see the models that are effective and which are fuelled by hot air from anti AGW conspiracy theorists”
I’m so glad for GW, dehydration has again saved me the humiliation of wetting myself.
cbone (19:14:42) :
“I like the part where the article claims that the study used IPCC estimates of temperature increase from 1-20 C.”
I liked that too, but I figured the ‘0’ was a degree symbol that didn’t survive a cut&paste.
Mike K (01:04:48) :
“When next months temperatures show a sharp rise”
I assume you mean temperature anomaly. If so, do you have evidence to share? If not, that happens every June in the northern hemisphere.
– Ric
Just testing: cut&paste degree symbol: “°”
HMTL text version: “° “