THE rising number of fat people was yesterday blamed for global warming.
Scientists warned that the increase in big-eaters means more food production — a major cause of CO2 gas emissions warming the planet.
Overweight people are also more likely to drive, adding to environmental damage.
Dr Phil Edwards, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said: “Moving about in a heavy body is like driving in a gas guzzler.”
Each fat person is said to be responsible for emitting a tonne more of climate-warming carbon dioxide per year than a thin one.
It means an extra BILLION TONNES of CO2 a year is created, according to World Health Organisation estimates of overweight people.
You scoff at the notion, eh? Well, when things are increasingly not governed by reason and prudence but rather... what's cuter - this?
Or, this?
We know which way we will be hedging.
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Don't get me started....
Politico.com notes that since 2003, the number of global warming lobbyists has risen by more than 300 percent, and “Washington can now boast more than four climate lobbyists for every member of Congress.”
In case you haven’t heard about it, the Oregon Petition was started by the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine in 2001. According to the National Post, this is the contention of those who have signed the petition: Not only did they dispute that there was convincing evidence of harm from carbon dioxide emissions, they asserted that Kyoto itself would harm the global environment because “increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth.” Does this look like Al Gore’s “consensus?” Not even close.
Reid Bryson says global warming is “a bunch of hooey.” Is he a radical Right-winger? Is he a pro-business drone? No, he’s known as the father of scientific climatology.
In a couple of hundred years historians will be comparing the frenzies over our supposed human contribution to global warming to the tumults at the latter end of the Tenth Century as the Christian millennium approached. Then as now, the doomsters identified human sinfulness as the propulsive factor in the planet's rapid downward slide.
There is still zero empirical evidence that anthropogenic production of carbon dioxide is making any measurable contribution to the world's present warming trend. The greenhouse fearmongers rely on unverified, crudely oversimplified models to finger mankind's sinful contribution -- and carbon trafficking, just like the old indulgences, is powered by guilt, credulity, cynicism and greed.
Japanese scientists have made a dramatic break with the United Nations’ view on man-made global warming with a report asserting that “this hypothesis has been substituted for truth.”
Among the points made in the report:
· CO2 emissions began to increase significantly after 1946 and are still rising. Therefore, according to the IPCC, global atmospheric temperatures should continue to increase. However, temperatures stopped increasing in 2001.
· The global temperature increase up to today is primarily a recovery from the “Little Ice Age” that earth experienced from 1400 to 1800. This rise peaked in 2000.
· Global warming and the “halting of the temperature rise are related to solar activity.”
I thought all the rainforests were supposed to be depleted by this time, the population explosion was going to have us starve to death, the hole in the ozone layer was going to give us all cancer, or our anthropogenic activity was to cause the new ice age killing us ALL by this time. Hey, Ted Danson signed on to this, Mr Lloyd believes it, it must be true.
Global warming is not even the politically correct term, now it's climate change. Why change the name? BECAUSE IT'S A FRIGGIN' CROCK!!!!!
So, what you're trying to say is the global-warming lobby numbers have grown a little fat, themselves.
And they said the influence of lobbyists would decrease.
Doomsayers do not have too good a track record in these matters. And I'm looking at you, Paul Ehrlich - Mr. (completely false and genocidal) Doomsayer-in-Chief.
The syphilis dude? What am I missing?
Dawg buries head in sand.
Film at 11.
- Mongo
No, the wrote-"Population Bomb"-dude who has had to change his title from futurist to naturalist to, now, entomologist, because of his miserable track record at predicting, you know, the future.
Ok Mr. Lloyd, show the statistics since 2001. You sound like my kids... everytime one of them is wrong, it's "lookit him, lookit him."
Rather than defending the indefensible, it's easier to accuse the another of the imputation of guilt or blame of which you are guilty.
Cheap, but not out of the traits that form your individual nature.
Burying my head in the sand?
I thought the Brazilian rainforest was to be depleted by this time.
I was told the population explosion was going to make me eat my dogs. (or my uncle's)
We were told the "hole in the ozone layer' was growing, and we were all going to be getting cancer.
My "Weekly Reader" told us kids of the comming of the new ice age (60's)
So pardon me if I find your retarded disposition, following your fathead Algore friend that has an agenda to push....amusing.
Where were you on all the other apocolypic predictions? Probably lapping it up, calling any opposing views, "ostiches".
Just when you thought the "We really didn't land on the moon"-people couldn't be topped...
There's Road Dawg.
- Mongo Wasn't On the Lunar Surface to Verify, Either. But has a sneaking suspicion...
P.S. -- Can you send me a photo of an "Ostiche" and an "Algore". I'll send you a Speak N Spell in return!
- Mongo Notices Dawg Can Spell "R-e-t-a-r-d-e-d" without a problem. Practice much?
Must be striking a chord! Can you say "no consenses" boys and girls?
Only have to psell retarded when speaking about Mr. Lloyd, so practice is limited.
Sorry, forgot the "r". Glad to see Mr. Lloyd is on the salient point of the topic. Miss the facts, didya? Always note hou you do that. Lookit over there!
Instead of doing spsell check, why dont you argue Algore's precious consensus? Reid Bryson disagrees. He is no slouch in the field.
Or the Oregon Petition Project whereby 31,478 American scientists have signed this petition,
including 9,029 with PhDs?
Real flat eathers, Mr. Lloyd.
Glad to see who's head is buried in the sand regarding consensus.
I left some spelling errors so you would have somehting to do.
Road Kill,
Your 3rd grade teacher must have fits with your spelling tests.
I like your style. You get serious huevo-points. 31,000 scientists -- and 9,000 even have PhD's!
Ummm. OK.
The other 22,000 watch Young Frankenstein enough times to qualify?
I'll go with the 99.5% of the PhD's who know better.
- Mongo, Because Hey, If the Sea Level Rises About 197 Feet More Than Predicted, I Have Beach Front Property. Go Global Meltdown!!
Again, the point was consensus. You noted my spelling errors. You make my point for me again. So you're not retarded, just A.D.D.
What happened to Algore's hockey stick?
Have you read the opposing aguments or do you just buy the hooey?
Have you read any of Reid Bryson's work. You don't find him credible?
"Consensus"...look it up. These scientists are gaining in numbers. Which of these are "Young Frankensteiners"? All of them? Who's putting their head in the sand.
Won the 5th grade spelling bee, but still make typo's. Stay on point, Mr. Lloyd.
By the way, I like the "Road Kill" moniker. Thanks!
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