Got Kidney Stones? Blame Global Warming.

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July 14, 2008, 10:30PM
Got kidney stones? Blame global warming, study says

By ERIC BERGER
Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle

See what places the study thinks will feel more kidney stones on the SciGuy blog 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.

The study, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has some caveats.

It goes on note that the southwest has actually cooled off during the past century.

Houston Chronicle

[Sonnabend]

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 world is cooling, not warming.

[megimoo]

It goes on note that the southwest has actually cooled off during the past century.

Houston Chronicle

Will it cause excessive sex drives next ?......(First response will be. 'In Your Mind Bozo,Only in your mind !')

[megimoo]

The world is cooling, not warming.

algore is always 'A Day Late and a Dollar Short' !

[wilbur]

The world is cooling, not warming.

Saying the Earth is cooling it like a politician claiming he will shrink government spending. What they really mean is the massive increase will be a slightly less massive increase.

[blueyonder]

Got Kidney Stones? Blame Global Warming.

It's Bush's fault..... LOL Only joking folks!

[Tantal]

The world is cooling, not warming.

Details, details. It's still a change.......which means the government will use it as an excuse to further tax us and infringe upon our freedoms.