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Cancun summit: cutting carbon emissions will help combat obesity
Daily Telegraph ^ | December 6, 2010 | Louise Gray

Posted on 12/06/2010 5:00:36 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

Professor Ian Roberts of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine said there is a direct correlation between and carbon emissions and expanding waistlines. ....

“There is an almost linear relationship between carbon consumption and average BMI,” he said.

“The world is getting hotter and the world is getting fatter. Fundamentally fossil fuel energy is the cause of both.

“The world needs to go on a fossil fuel-controlled diet even if climate change is a hoax – which I do not think it is – the world would still have to go on a fossil fuel controlled diet otherwise our healthy systems will just break down, we will not be able to deal with the growth in obesity.

“The decarbonisation of the transport and greener lifestyles are going to be good for health as well as being good for the planet.”

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: climatechange; environmentalism; globaleconomy; globalwarminghoax; socialism
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1 posted on 12/06/2010 5:00:40 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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Cancun summit: cutting carbon emissions will help combat obesity

So, there's hope for Michael Moore if he drives a Prius?

2 posted on 12/06/2010 5:03:06 AM PST by Dr. Thorne (Buy Gold and Guns Now!)
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Wow... I desperately need a facepalm graphic. The enviro-whackos have gone off the reservation, and these cartoon provide a stark and disturbing view into the contemporary problem of obesity.

Hell... let’s look at it this way: Al Gore claims to have created the Internet, and Al Gore is the leader of the AGW crowd. So Al Gore creates the entity that leads children to sloth and laziness, and now he wants to do something about AGW to get kids outdoors again. But Al, what about your precious Internet? What about the KIDS?!


3 posted on 12/06/2010 5:03:11 AM PST by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Determined little bastids ain’t they!


4 posted on 12/06/2010 5:04:12 AM PST by CynicalBear
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London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

I went to the Newark School of Foot Fungus and Nordic Train Schedules.

5 posted on 12/06/2010 5:05:45 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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They just keep thinking up more ways to make our lives and those that are truly poor more miserable. Haven’t these lame brains gotten the msg yet? There is no global warming and NO you can’t have our money.


6 posted on 12/06/2010 5:09:33 AM PST by MsLady (If you died tonight, where would you go? Salvation, don't leave earth without it!)
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These people are criminally insane!


7 posted on 12/06/2010 5:09:50 AM PST by malos (Call Me Inpressed)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Translation: We can starve millions of people through poverty measures.

Pray for America


8 posted on 12/06/2010 5:09:54 AM PST by bray (Sarah Palin will destroy the Repub Party, hopfully!)
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What’s next?

Cutting greenhouse gasses will reduce cavities? Prevent erectile dysfunction?


9 posted on 12/06/2010 5:10:07 AM PST by earlJam
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LOL.....these people are so full of junk science. HEY *light bulb going off* maybe that’s what’s making us all fat?


10 posted on 12/06/2010 5:11:16 AM PST by MsLady (If you died tonight, where would you go? Salvation, don't leave earth without it!)
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Cutting carbon emissions will also reduce acne, gas, stomach upsets and anything else you can think of (sarc).


11 posted on 12/06/2010 5:12:31 AM PST by momtothree
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To: Cincinatus' Wife; Whenifhow; TenthAmendmentChampion; Clive; scripter; Darnright; WL-law; ...
 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

12 posted on 12/06/2010 5:13:21 AM PST by steelyourfaith (ObamaCare Death Panels: a Final Solution to the looming Social Security crisis ?)
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.....and it will make your teeth brighter, balance your checkbook, get you that promotion that you've been seeking, cause your favorite team to win the Super Bowl, help you meet the person of your dreams, and give you relief from the painful itch of hemorroidal tissue.
13 posted on 12/06/2010 5:14:04 AM PST by GreenHornet
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Cutting “carbon emissions” will reduce obesity by starvation, which, in turn, will reduce human population. This is the *REAL* goal of the Global Warmist cult.


14 posted on 12/06/2010 5:16:58 AM PST by Westbrook (Having children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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The world is getting hotter and the world is getting fatter?

There's a paid program here I think it's by purity products where they hawk vitamin D and part of the pitch is that the closer you live to the equator the thinner you are, by being in the sun for 20 minutes you soak up x # of iu's. People who are in the sunny areas of the world soak up a lot of vitamin D because they are outdoors swimmming, playing etc. and therefore are thinner than those who don't. So one would think that when the weather is warmer people are outside a lot more doing activities that they don't do in the winter. These fools will put anything out there to promote gloBULL warming crap aka "climate change" and there are people out there who actually fall for this crap. We are sooooooooooooooooo screwed.

15 posted on 12/06/2010 5:19:23 AM PST by rockabyebaby (We are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo screwed!)
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“Determined little bastids ain’t they!”

Desperate little bastids ain’t they!

fixed it for you!!!


16 posted on 12/06/2010 5:21:53 AM PST by phockthis
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Just when I thought these people had said the stupidest thing they could possibly say, they had to go and prove me wrong.


17 posted on 12/06/2010 5:27:58 AM PST by 84rules ( Ooh-Rah! Semper Fi!)
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To: earlJam

cures acne.

eradicates toenail fungus.

Gets the gray out.


18 posted on 12/06/2010 5:28:38 AM PST by Calamari (Pass enough laws and everyone is guilty of something.)
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For a completely fleshed-out version of this idiot's thesis, read Richard Manning's The oil we eat: Following the food chain back to Iraq. Manning's conclusion is we should all leave our homes to move to Kaczynski-size cabins and grow our own food and vegetables (like the author) because subsistence-level living is healthier for the planet.
19 posted on 12/06/2010 5:29:04 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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Now, I think I’ve heard everything! Where do these people come from? Who gave them a microphone or pen?


20 posted on 12/06/2010 5:31:02 AM PST by Shery (in APO Land)
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