Obesity contributes to global warming: study

Thu May 15, 2008 7:03pm EDT

By Michael Kahn

GENEVA (Reuters) – Obesity contributes to global warming, too.

Obese and overweight people require more fuel to transport them and the food they eat, and the problem will worsen as the population literally swells in size, a team at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine says.

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Maybe I just don’t understand. Global warming causes more and less hurricanes and tropical storms? More AND Less?!  It seems like just a couple years ago, just after Katrina kicked the folks in the Gulf square in the teeth, the experts told us that the next couple of hurricane seasons would be the worst we’d ever seen. Well, that didn’t happen the first year. Didn’t happen the next year either. So now, it will be not just be more hurricanes, but less hurricanes as well. How could they possibly be wrong with such intellectually sound reasoning such as that?

It reminds me of the rehab scene in Walk Hard: “I’m hot and I’m cold!”  “He’s hot, and he’s cold, Doctor!” “He needs more blankets, and less blankets!” 

There will be more and less hurricanes. Global temperatures will rise and fall. Glaciers will shrink and grow. The holes in the ozone layer get bigger and smaller. It’s all most of our faults and IQ’s are dropping everywhere!

It’s a freaking joke people! They are lying to us to generate grant money, because a mundane future only generates mundane funding! If a researcher wants big money for future research, they have to predict big problems for that future. It’s not science. It’s politics, and it’s socia(environmenta)lism, and we keep falling for it!

‘Fewer hurricanes’ as world warms

By Mark Kinver Science and nature reporter, BBC News The study suggests hurricanes could become less frequent Hurricanes and tropical storms will become less frequent by the end of the century as a result of climate change, US researchers have suggested. But the scientists added their data also showed that there would be a “modest increase” in the intensity of these extreme weather events.

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Researchers studied the western Himalaya

Global warming boost to glaciers

Global warming could be causing some glaciers to grow, a new study claims. Researchers at Newcastle University looked at temperature trends in the western Himalaya over the past century.

They found warmer winters and cooler summers, combined with more snow and rainfall, could be causing some mountain glaciers to increase in size.

The findings are significant, because temperature and rain and snow trends in the area impact on water availability for more than 50 million Pakistanis.

Researchers focussed on the Upper Indus Basin, which is the mainstay of the national economy of Pakistan and has 170,000 sq km of irrigated land – an area two-thirds the size of the UK.

Dr Hayley Fowler, senior research associate at the university’s school of civil engineering and geosciences, said: “Very little research of this kind has been carried out in this region and yet the findings from our work have implications for the water supplies of around 50 million people in Pakistan.”

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Yet one more dose of reason in the midst of the world’s mass histeria about the myth of global warming. Thanks to the Drudge Report for pointing this one out!

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