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Does Global Warming Mean More Kidney Stones?

July 15, 2008 02:15 PM ET | Adam Voiland | Permanent Link | Print

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To Have a Healthy and Balanced Diet is More Important

This is a piece of useful information for us. However,the cause that leads to diseases is not merely the climate change, we should pay more attention to our daily diet!

to "fox news freaks" why is it that you always have to resort to insults and name-calling when you have no viable retort to a statement? idiots? uneducated freaks? would that apply to the hundreds (by now probably thousands) of scientists and climatologists that do not buy into to global warming scare? or is it really about a disdain for human life and worship of the great Gaia? if you really care about knowing the truth, do yourself a favor and pick up a copy of "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Enviromentalism" If you can read that book and still buy into the warming scare, well, God bless your little heart.

Ha ha ha

Ha ha ha ha ha. Oh, that's rich...

Yet another 'WHAT IF' story

OK, then. If that's what MIGHT happen under global warming then I've got another situation we should look at.Let's say if the earth's gravity increases everyone will get heart disease from the strain.That would be a likely effect wouldn't it? After all, if things weigh twice as much it would make things a bit harder. It certainly merits as much attention.

(BTW, every year the earth pulls in meteors, space dust, which all scientists agree increases the earth's mass, which all scientists further agree that if a planet's mass is increased it will have a corresponding increase in gravity.) There! I've created the newest crisis!

Let's have story after story about what MIGHT happen under that scenario. (Decrease in efficiency in everything from generators to cars to muscles; health problems, mass extinction, etc).

Then we can have people point to THOSE stories as 'proof' that the earth's gravity IS really increasing. Utterly ridiculous circular reasoning. But that's what we see with global warming stories.

The earth was warmer in the past, long before any man-made intervention. It's in the fossil record. These things cycle back and forth. Do we really think that insignificant man even with all of our pollution is really a match for the vastly larger ecosphere called earth? The immense amounts of air in the atmosphere, the many self-correcting mechanisms in the climate, the cleasing properties of rain to wash the air, the ability of the earth to tolerate volcanic activity (which spews out much more CO2 than cars and factories), the fact that plants have been producing CO2 the whole time for goodness sake! These things have been active and handling the earth's atmosphere for a long time. If you think that now somehow man will defeat earth's system then it must be 'faith'. Which is why I think global warming is more of a religion than science.

Iditot Republicans, or Whiny Democrats.

Hey instead of pointing out what the republicans are doing wrong, come up with some better ideas, instead of watching Keith Olberman or any of the other crap on MSNBC. It's easy to point out the faults of somebody after they happen. As for me, I have had 4 kidney stones and I live in the great white north, where yes, it still snowed over the winter. By the way, I believe since the last ice age, the earth has been getting warmer. Must be all of the wolly mamoths driving their hummers that started the whole thing huh? Quit whining and come up with a solution. The carbon you expel from your mouth evertime you complain about something is making the polar bears mad.

idiot Republicans

I for one am not concerned about global warming or even kidney stones. By the time global warming is causing severe damage to the planet I will have been long deceased. Therefore until the day of my death, I will do my best to pump as much crap into the atmosphere in order to wipe out as many children and grandchildren of the non believer idiot Republicans. Sorry to the children of the global warming believers.

idiot Republicans

I for one am not concerned about global warming or even kidney stones. By the time global warming is causing severe damage to the planet I will have been long deceased. Therefore until the day of my death, I will do my best to pump as much crap into the atmosphere in order to wipe out as many children and grandchildren of the non believer idiot Republicans. Sorry to the children of the global warming believers.

Global Warming

Stay tuned, the BS is just beginning. Wait until all of the polar ice melts then maybe you'll believe!

invest heavily in pharmaceuticals

OOOOOh a new drug to shove down our throats!

More 'news' about what 'might' happen 'if' the earth gets warmer.

So if earth's gravity increases everyone will get heart disease from the strain right? Let's have story after story about what might happen under that scenario. Then we can have people point to those stories as 'proof' that the earth's gravity IS really increasing. Circular reasoning.

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