Globo warmer nut of the day

Houston Chronicle:

The next time you feel a sharp, cramping pain in your lower abdomen, spare a thought for your personal carbon footprint.

That's the message from Dallas scientists who predict that as the planet warms during the coming century people will sweat more, not drink enough water to compensate, and therefore develop more kidney stones.

The prevalence of kidney stones may rise by 30 percent or more in some U.S. areas if global temperatures rise as forecast by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the scientists found.

"This is really the first direct human health impact of climate change that has been demonstrated," said the study's lead author, Tom Brikowski, a University of Texas at Dallas professor of geosciences.

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There are two obvious ways to avoid this problem. Drink more water and turn the air conditioning on.

Yesterday's nut gets to share this post. It is Congressman Ed Markey from Massachusetts. Among other things he attributed the Blackhawk down incident to global warming. His logic is that the war was caused by the famine.

In fact it was just the opposite. It was a man made famine caused by a deliberate logistic strategy on the part of one or more of the factions. It is a typical strategy in Africa to get your adversaries to submit by subjecting them to starvation. It is genocide on the cheap. It is why the factions were stealing aid shipments so that the food would not go to their adversaries.

It appears that one way to get notice these days is to attribute something to global warming. Having no need for notice I will from time to time heap ridicule and derision on those who do seek notice with their specious theories.