This is almost too stupid to comment on, but I’ll do my best. First the headline and story excerpt:
GLOBAL WARMING Warming of the Earth’s climate system and related increasing concentrations of greenhouse gasses are causing some eye disorders, writes Maria Anguita.
Two years ago, retired teacher Vera started experiencing eye discomfort, irritation and crusting of the eyelids. She was prescribed a short course of antibiotics for what her doctor suspected was a simple eye infection, but several months later she was still having problems.
“My eyes felt constantly gritty and dry, and my lids were red and flaky. I was treated for a range of eye conditions, but nothing seemed to make a difference,” says Vera.
Many trips to eye specialists later, she was diagnosed with chronic blepharitis, an inflammation of the eyelid, of unknown cause. And, after trial and error with different treatments, she now has a routine that keeps her discomfort and pain in check. However, some days her eyes flare up for no apparent reason: “I just wish I knew why I keep getting this,” she says.
It may be difficult to pin Vera’s symptoms to global warming, but scientists all over the world agree that increased levels of ultraviolet radiation reaching the surface of the Earth, resulting from ozone depletion at high altitude, and a toxic mix of air pollutants are responsible for serious eye disorders.
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), of the 18 million people worldwide who have cataract-related diseases, 5% are directly attributable to UV radiation. UVA light, a component of UV radiation, stimulates the over-production of damaging oxygen-free radicals responsible for the clouding of the lens, typical of cataracts.
Last year researchers at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, started gathering data for what is to date the largest study into the link between global warming and eye health.
Full story here
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Yegads. The stupid here, it burns like magnesium.
It’s funny really, the claim on the face is that 0.7C of warming over a century is causing a deterioration of eye health. We have humans in every climate zone of the planet, living with temperatures ranging from sub-zero in Antarctica to 120F+ in the deserts of Iraq.
Hell, the temperature changes 0.7C just walking from room to room in my house!
They are trying to blame the warming as a trigger for a whole host of secondary pollution issues, and those make itchy watery eyes. Never mind the big advances in air pollution control in the last 30 years…unless you live in China.
h/t to Tom Nelson
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Forgot to mention: Anthony, would it be possible for you to put articles which you’ve copy/pasted verbatim in blockquote form, against a colored background? Unless I go to the source I’m never sure if I’m reading the article or your comments. This post has the added confusion of the paragraph starting with
“Yegads. The stupid here, it burns like magnesium.”
I thought it was your comment, but turns out it was by a commenter at HuffPo.
Thanks!
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Larry Ledwick (hotrod ) says:
May 9, 2012 at 6:25 pm
More sun does not help much if you are paranoid about UV and slather on a bucket of sun screen before you go out side. I understand that now child care operations routinely butter up the kiddies before they go out to play, and don’t give them 10 minutes of “unprotected” exposure before putting on the sun screen.
I suspect in a decade or two we will hear about a whole generation that is showing signs of chronic low vitamin D intake, especially among those who are not avid milk drinkers.
Larry
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Rickets has been making a come back in the West because of over use of sun block on children – but more besides:
http://www.rense.com/general48/sunlight1.htm
“But these trials of the health benefits of vitamin D supplements are exceptional. Few trials have been made of vitamin D for treatment of diseases other than bone disease because the vitamin cannot be patented and drug companies cannot justify expensive trials which will not lead to profits. However trials of several compounds similar to vitamin D have begun recently for treatment of cancer because these compounds can be patented.
Crucial pieces of the jigsaw puzzle now seem to be in place and a consistent picture has emerged although many researchers remain sceptical, especially those who have spent most of their lives committed to other theories. The sceptics point to technical difficulties in the scientific evidence and the lack of final proof that vitamin D is the cause of most of these diseases. But the weight of so many different studies demonstrating or suggesting the health benefits of sunbathing and vitamin D supplements can no longer be overlooked.
Yet every year doctors repeat the mantra: “There is no such thing as a healthy tan,” words which are enshrined in a Consensus Statement of the UK Skin Cancer Prevention Working Party and endorsed by more than a dozen health charities as well as by UK government health departments. And every year doctors complain about the large number of people who ignore their advice by sunbathing and tanning.
The advice of the Skin Cancer Working Party has of course been given in good faith with the very best of intentions but it is based on a mistaken Consensus. It can no longer be defended. The stark truth is that advice to avoid the sun has put more lives at risk than it can possibly have saved and, it must be faced, is responsible for many thousands of deaths.”
Pharmaceutical companies have no real interest in curing diseases, but in managing them, to keep taking the pills. Hence the successful lobbying and campaigns to get effective natural unpatentable herbs banned.. As in all this, follow the money which creates consensus to boost their own energy levels while depleting ours..
The stupid makes me blind.
Nerd says:
May 9, 2012 at 7:59 am
Easy fix – treat vitamin D deficiency (most medical doctors over look it due to ignorance). Usually, any inflammation of any kind is directly linked to chronic vitamin D deficiency (very common). Poor lady… Only if she knew about it…
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yeah and she was ?
a teacher- indoors too much and I bet she still is.
decent does of Vit D and sunshine wouldnt go astray.
Is it because of all that crap that women smear all over their faces?
Who knows what chemicals they are using in that stuff?
I guess Hillary has the right idea, leave all the war paint off and as she said if someone doesn’t like it, so what.
INCREASING CONCENTRATIONS of eye disorders are causing some people to see greenhouse gasses as the cause of global warming of the Earth’s climate system
e? says:
May 10, 2012 at 12:55 am
The ancient Egyptians were known to wear mascara prior to and during the Roman Warm Period, during which time it spread to neighbouring areas. It fell into disuse everywhere with the fall of the Roman Empire, probably causing the subsequent cooler weather, but its use reappeared in the west prior to the current anthropogenic warm period and its widespread use coincides with the awful heat shown in the modern academic record. Clearly, this is not mere coincidence, but something more sinister – the Mascara-Warming Cycle.
Of course, how stupid of me, now it all makes sense.
I’ll have to modify my advise to my patients in veiw of this startling new evidence. 🙂