Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 09/15/2008 7:23:20 PM PDT by markomalley
Scientists the globe over have observed changes that are impacting individuals' health and have also created models to predict where we might be headed. Here's a sampling of what we could be discussing with our doctors in the decades to come.
Stepped-up sniffling. Allergies—from ragweed in the fall to tree pollen in the spring—are predicted not only to become stronger but also to enjoy lengthened seasons because of less frost and earlier blooming. Fungal spores (those outdoors and in moist basements) will most likely thrive, tickling the throats of many.
Algae-related complaints. Cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, thrive and bloom in the rising temperatures of bodies of water, from municipal water systems to the Great Lakes and Florida's Lake Okeechobee. The algae have been linked to digestive, neurological, liver, and dermatological diseases.
Painful kidney stones. Because of higher temps and more dehydration, the crystallized calcifications that must be passed—often painfully—through the urinary tract could plague an additional 2.2 million people a year by 2050, researchers estimate. The current "kidney stone belt," which includes southern states like Florida, the Carolinas, and Arkansas, could extend up into Kentucky and northern California.
Exotic infections. Dengue fever, malaria, and encephalitis, while not exactly household names, have seen U.S. outbreaks and upticks in incidence in recent years. Mosquitoes and plankton, which flourish in warmer water temperatures, play a key role in transmitting such diseases.
(Excerpt) Read more at health.usnews.com ...
Maybe he could fine the sun for those excess sunspots.
Maybe he could demand carbon offsets from Mount Pinatubo.
Or maybe he could stop talking (the greatest source of hot air outside of Joe Biden)
This article could also be titled, “10 Ways Global Cooling Could Hurt Your Health”. And there is no one that could prove it otherwise.
Does anyone else think it’s odd that we’ll have both too much water and dehydration? Why can’t the dehydrated people run to the water and the malarial people run to the desert? We’ll switch every few years. Surely, it’ll cost some money, but think of all the exhaust fumes we won’t have to give up.
11. Aneurism from blowing steam out your ears after listening to these gullible idiots buy into the world’s biggest hoax.
IF YOU BELIEVE IN IT!!!!!
I respected USNWR for their non-lib articles but now sounds like they have crossed the darkside into looney lefty land.
Yeah, but just think the business it brings to the mental health industry for people who believe this stuff.
Why do you have to rationalize this?
Why can’t you just get in line and send your money.
Oh yea, we also want you quit driving your SUV, or any other vehicle you might have.
Sheesh, you just aren’t being a good shepple.
Want some facts to throw back at the Algore sycophants?
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.1171/pub_detail.asp
I’m still reeling from the Ozone Hole, I can’t deal with this now!
When the GW zealots can't "sell" GW because it is too long term and no-one really gives a whoop about it (which is wrong, we care, we just don't give a whoop about the GW zealots' socialist agenda)...
They "repackage" it as something more immediate. Oh, "rapid climate change" too hard of a sell too? (also known simply as "weather" - but that's another rant)
So they need to find something to threaten us with right now, our immediate health. Got to put the fear into us so we make emotional decisions and back their otherwise ill-advised agenda. Ha!
And the #1 Way Global Warming can hurt you......Stealing all the money out of your wallet.
#1 - choking on the BS the left and their friends in the media cram down your throat
#2 - going in to cardiac arrest with anger as millionaire limo libs lecture you about your wasteful lifestyle
#3 - freezing to death in the middle of the winter cause there is no energy for heating
#4 - dying of heat stroke in the summer when Air Conditioners are outlawed
#5 - starving to death in a third world nation when corn being earmarked for ethanol becomes scarce
#6 - dying of malaria or other insect transfered viruses because of laws against pesticides
#7 - death by an anxiety attack when you see how high Greens plan on raising your taxes
#8 - death by aggravation when you encounter all the new “green” laws and regulations from leaf blowers to what kind of car you can drive
#9 - being aborted (which Greens tell me is a great way to preserve the environment.)
#10 - Suicide rather than living with Greens in charge (but pay your death tax in advance please)
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