Houston Chronicle: Global Warming to Result in More Kidney Stones

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The global warming alarmism in the mainstream media never ceases to stop as "The Houston Chronicle" went so far to warn of a spike in kidney stone cases. Yes, driving an SUV can now cause pain in the back as well as the pump.

In a July 14 article, "Got kidney stones? Blame global warming study says," reporter Eric Berger warned "the prevalence of kidney stones may rise by 30 percent." The line of reasoning behind the study is that as temperatures warm, people sweat more without adequate fluids to replace and thus create more kidney stone cases.

Surprisingly, the article did contain some balance noting "some global warming skeptics"- (they didn’t even use the pejorative term "deniers.") -"also note that the U.S. Southeast has actually cooled during the last century" and even quoted skeptic Rob Bradley of the Institute for Energy Research.

Berger then immediately refuted Mr. Bradley and warned of an "increase in tropical diseases such as malaria."

So global warming "deniers" beware, you will not only have blood on your hands, but in your toilets.


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Show me the money

Sadly, this 'research' is tied to GW simply for funding. Scientists admit that just using that word gets you money even if it is not your real research goal. It's turned into a $50 billion a year industry that is then blown into a crisis by the MSM.

When oh when will someone publish a study blaming GW for my golf game? Maybe then I can believe it lol.

Wait your turn...

I'm still waiting for someone to blame global warming on my bad credit score. :-)    

Of course kidney stones will

Of course kidney stones will increase due to global warming.  And I am sure President Bush will also be held responsible.  I hope this was printed next to the comics.

Well of course...

I thought everyone knew this.

FYI.... I lost my hair to Global Warming. 

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There's also a coorelation

There's also a coorelation between Global tempertures and my belt size.

I must have caused it? 

"There is a clear attempt to establish truth not by scientific methods but by perpetual repetition."
- Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Meteorology, MIT

Of course there is danbo

Here's the correlation.

Because it's warming....you're drinking more beers.

More beers = Bigger Belt Size.

See....GLOBAL WARMING CAUSES BIGGER BEER GUTS!

Simple.

David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive

 

No I think I must have

No I think I must have caused the warming. I drink less beer than I did in my 30's and 40's.

"There is a clear attempt to establish truth not by scientific methods but by perpetual repetition."
- Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Meteorology, MIT

Just great, Blonde. Like

Just great, Blonde. Like they need more ammunition for GW. If I am not mistaken, GW actually started when boxers came out. Might account for the kidney stones. WTH - this logic is as good as theirs.

Can someone make a list of

Can someone make a list of what all the media has been saying that AGW or global climate change is supposed to cause? It would be an impressive list defying all logic and science.

Thank you Blonde for continuing on their line of thinking and blaming obesity and cirrhosis on AGW.

I'd get to work on that right away

but the problem is that you can pretty much include anything.  I mean think about it....anything.  Just think of the most stupid or outlandish reason or result you can imagine and write it down....yeah that's how crazy it has become.

Global Warming induced Phenomena

Overweight German men in Speedos

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Problem is, the planet isn't warming...

...and may actually be heading the other way.

LOL-So, will the next ice age result in a massive outbreak of hemorrhoid problems due to people sitting and huddling around the fire, trying to keep warm?

The truth is insensitive. - Neal Boortz

LOL, RD. But where will we

LOL, RD. But where will we get the fuel for the fires?

The Comical

And people wonder why I don't waste money on the Houston Comical. 

Whoever casts a vote for Obama is nothing more than a common thief.  Whoever fails to vote against him is a moral coward. 

These nutcases are most

These nutcases are most likely causing migraines in plenty of people across this land, let alone the nightmares and sleepless nights they are causing our children with their outright lying agenda with their insanity.

I think it is time to get a hold of a good trial lawyer and sue the pants of these critters with their intentional lying agenda...with zilch for proof of any of their scenarios... nation-wide lawsuit like the tobacco lawsuit.

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

"I lost my journalistic

"I lost my journalistic integrity to global warming" - Scott Pelley, CBS News.

 

Global Warming causes

Global Warming causes everything. Did you know, that before global warming, there was no herpes, no std's at all. Also causes brain cancer, breast cancer, cuts, bruises, scraped knees and hang nails.

Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!

Malaria?

" distribution area (for malaria) (previously as far as London, Norway, Denmark, New York, southern Canada and even Siberia). In 1922 the number of cases in Texas was estimated at 500,000". Source

In reference to England from a pro global warming story. Source 

"This country was plagued by malaria for centuries, when the climate was cooler. In the 1300s Geoffrey Chaucer wrote about ague, the old word for malaria, in The Nun’s Priest’s Tale, and Shakespeare mentions it in several plays. Samuel Pepys, Charles II and Oliver Cromwell were some of the famous victims of the disease."

Is it Global Warming or Environmentalist that are causing Malaria?

According to NOAA's climate at a glance, starting in 1895 Texas as a whole has shown "Annual 1895 - 2007 Trend = -0.01 degF / Decade."

 

"There is a clear attempt to establish truth not by scientific methods but by perpetual repetition."
- Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Meteorology, MIT

So, if I pass a stone, can

So, if I pass a stone, can I get a carbon credit? 

Houston Chronicle is owned

Houston Chronicle is owned by the Hearst Corp., one of many reason's why I never buy this fish wrap.

I wish they'd start the Houston Post back up.

The Post, Comical, Snooze and Light

Really???  I did not know this!

So is the equally crappy San Antonio Express-Snooze. 

No wonder the two TX cities I have called home have been so journalistically cursed. 

I don't know how the Houston Post was, but as much as I hate the E-N, I wouldn't want to re-inflict the Light onto the citizenry of San Antonio! 

Res tantum valet quantum vendi potest.

Climate change, a hoax for the gullible

I find it interesting that since global temperatures have leveled off during the past ten years, they are now calling it "climate change", instead of global warming. That way they can blame every weather anomaly on climate change(which actually stopped changing). They now say that this period of temperature stability will last ten more years and is due to ocean currents. I guess that will buy them ten more years of propaganda time.

I remember that they predicted that the year following hurricane Katrina would be the worst year for hurricanes we have seen in a hundred years. It turned out to be the calmest that we have seen in a hundred years. They also blamed that on ocean currents.

I would like to know: if they can not predict a local hurricane season 8 months in advance, how can they be so sure that the currently thriving polar bear species will be threatened in 40 years due to climate change? The congress voted to put the polar bears on a threatened species list(a new category) because they expect melting arctic ice to destroy their habitat in 40 years.

I am amazed that they can come up with such convoluted scenarios based on little more than opinion and pass laws based on them. What's worse is that they are feeding this propaganda to school kids and university students as proven facts, and they are gullible enough to buy into it, hook line and sinker.

Last night, I saw an ad on TV from some sort of a wildlife foundation asking for donations to save the polar bears. It showed heart-wrenching images of a baby cub, diving off a morsel of floating ice into the huge ocean where it would surely drown.

In my motel room, there is a placard that says: "save the planet" , then it explains how you can use less hot water and electricity to help save the planet.

The government, universities, foundations and corporations are all using this global warming hoax to their advantage. I am dumbfounded that so many people are falling for this obvious deception and manipulation. What is most disturbing is that both of the presidential candidates are playing along, because a majority of the public are true believers.

Interesting Question

If the Vatican "goes green", how will such an event affect the reporting of the MRC and NewsBusters?

http://apnews.myway....

Will the MRC and NewsBusters shower upon it the same sharp criticism they have leveled against other politicians and public figures who jump on the climate-change/global-warming bandwagon?

"Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house." Acts 16:31

Actually, global warming will prevent kidney stones

Fortunately, global warming will be melting the polar ice caps, making available more water to keep us hydrated, thus preventing more kidney stones from forming.  </sarcasm off>

When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.

Academics

When I was a senior and actually taking some grad courses I was actively seeking a potential Master's thesis. In the library I perused many titles of my predecessor's papers. Not only did I come to the wrong conclusion that the most minute of inquisitions of all topics had been exhaustively studied, but that most of the recent papers dealt with some of the most inane, insane, idiotic claptrap that ever made it through an adviser's in/out box. That was long ago and there have many quality papers since, but the volume of crap still grows. The authors wanted a concrete global warming topic that would grab a reader, kidney stones do that. Other NBs are already looking behind the numbers and conclusions of the study, I'll just add that this looks like another of the Academic Idiocies I've seen.

Don't they know the new

Don't they know the new words are "global climate change".  One has to be up on the latest.  Greenland ice is expanding as are glaciers in the us and in the Southern hemisphere.  That last 2 years have seen cooler worldwide temperatures.  So what do they do if things cool?  That is why the nut balls changed it from "global warming".  HC has to get with it.

Global warming causes kidney stones?

Ok - let's see - so the fact that my mother, aunt, and grandfather had a history of kidney stones and I have had 8 kidney stone lithotripsies but have been kidney stone free for over five years now is because of global warming?

Gee, I wonder if my grandfather - who died in 1953 - was aware of that!

Hey - maybe I can blame my detached retina on GW, too!

As Bugs Bunny once said:  "What a maroon"!

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