This is IT! The TRUE cause of Global Warming! FAT PEOPLE!
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Obesity as a cause of global warming? 4:48 PM, May 16, 2008 That pesky obesity thing. First it forced Disneyland to increase the sizes of its theme-park costumes, and hospitals to buy larger hoists and beds. Now, in a letter published Friday in the medical journal Lancet, two scientists write that obese people are disproportionately responsible for high food prices and greenhouse gas emissions because they consume 18% more food energy due to their greater body mass -- and require increased quantities of fuel to transport themselves and the food they eat. "Promotion of a normal distribution of BMI would reduce the global demand for, and thus the price of, food," write the authors, Phil Edwards and Ian Roberts of the evocatively named London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. |
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I don't have the patience to read through eleven pages of political posturing. My PERSONAL observation is that in the last 50 or so years, things are getting warmer in the mid central USA. I've lived in New Jersey, Virginia, Kansas and Wyoming and I remember long cold winters as a child something I haven't seen in 20 years.
I watch EVERYTHING I can on the subject of earth changes, both sides of the story and my conclusion is this: Global warming (and cooling) are NATURAL OCCURENCES in the long lifespan of this planet, BUT this current warming trend is being exasperated by human intervention. I am NOT talking about ONLY industrialism. Bovines have very inefficient digestive systems and there are more bovines in the world now than at any other time in recorded history. Bovines produce methane, a green house gas. (Taking things holistically, the meat and milk from bovines is largely responsible for a greater part of the world's gastrointestinal and cholesterol problems too.)
I'm going to deliberately stray from topic for just a second because this discussion is irrelevant if ALL of the data is not included in the "alarm" or not.
We are also in the middle of a polarity "collapse" and change. Geophysicists are tracking a reduction in the electromagnetic pull of the core of the planet. This also is a NATURAL occurence as it has been discovered in deep sea drills ranging back hundreds of thousands of years. The cycle is unsteady BUT perhaps the greater threat to our existence is the fact that this magnetic change AND the global warming cycle are happening at the same time for the FIRST time in recorded history. https://www.pureenergysystems.com/news/2005...net_Pole_Shift/
Everything has a natural cycle, even human existence. The question should not be whether or not the global warming trend is REAL but are we prepared for the consequences of such an event which, science has shown, usually is followed by a major cooling trend.
Extreme Weather & Global Warming: Floods in Iowa & China, Wildfires in California, Heat Waves on the East Coast, Tornadoes Across the Midwest
The words "extreme weather" are rarely associated in the mainstream media with another two words: "global warming." But scientists argue that these extreme weather events are consistent with changes they have long predicted would accompany global warming. We speak to Joseph Romm of ClimateProgress.org and Perry Beeman of the Des Moines Register.
Ref. https://www.democracynow.org/2008/6/16/extr..._global_warming
Arctic sea ice melt 'even faster'
After a cold winter, Arctic sea ice has melted quickly, suggesting that summers could be ice-free within five to 10 years.
Ref. https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7461707.stm
As Global Warming Fuels More Extreme Weather, McCain and Bush Urge Congress to Lift Offshore Oil Drilling Ban
President Bush and John McCain urge Congress to lift a federal ban on offshore oil drilling and in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Their call comes as a new global warming report finds that North America is likely to experience more droughts, excessive heat and intense downpours. We speak with David Helvarg of the Blue Frontier Campaign.
Ref. https://www.democracynow.org/2008/6/20/as_g...ls_more_extreme
So explain to me how drilling for oil in the Arctic or offshore Alaska and elsewhere will solve global warming? And then there's this:
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Since McCain's original statement, his own advisers have begun acknowledging lifting the ban would have no immediate effect on supplies or prices. According to a recent study by the White House's own Energy Information Administration, any impact on oil prices from exploiting the Outer Continental Shelf is expected to be "insignificant." |
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Climate link to amphibian decline
Amphibian populations at Yellowstone - the world's oldest national park - are in steep decline, a study shows.
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Wow... I didn't think people were still questioning this issue. Look, and I don't have a cited page for this, but the charts Al Gore showed in his little Documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" were actually wrong. The scientist who gave Al Gore these graphs and information was a major supporter of the Kyoto Protocol a few years back. But, after some study, there has been a new interesting thing. As Co2 increases, temperature decreases. Which when you think about it, makes sense. If the atmosphere traps heat by not letting it escape, it should have gone without saying that it can also let it not enter. Now, the Light does do some heating of it's own, but it isn't to the effect that you'd think. Since, most of it is adsorbed for photosynthesis. And if you think, that is the sun is powering the plants then they should be supercharged? Your wrong, the photosynthesis process is only about 2% efficient. which means the 2 cal/per centimeter squared of energy that makes it down to earth, only 2% of it is successfully converted into energy for plants. The rest is converted into bi-products which the plants produce.
Another point, they say that a global warming is the cause for Ice ages, because the Arctic shelves melt and flood the earth causing massive cooling. Well then, we had a small ice age a few hundred years ago, around the time of the vikings. Must have had a lot of campfires huh? Also, there has shown to be a bigger one in the times of ancient Egypt (Forgot which Dynasty). So what does that tell us? Pyramids cause global warming!
But anyways, my point in all of this is this. Global warming may eventually prove a problem to society in another 500 years or so. We have bigger issues to solve before then. Anyone ever thought about how many people the earth can actually sustain? The years are not very different on what each ecologist publishes when it come to this issue. usually a 60yr-350yr time period between now and when we reach that level of sustainability. So, when it comes to global issues such as this. Look around you, there are probably bigger things to tackle than what is given.