Kidney Stones. Is There Anything Global Warming Can’t Do?
A new stupid study was published by environmentalist kooks claiming that in 40 years, Chicago will become ground zero for a plague of Kidney Stones. Why? Because of Global Warming, of course!
George Luber, Ph.D.
Meet George Luber, head researcher and sidekick Chicken Little of the CDC’s climate change office. He has no training whatsoever in meteorology or climatology, but likes to pass himself off as a climate change expert. And he is convinced that global warming is real, and as such, people are going to die because, well, they might forget to drink water. And this douchebag draws a federal paycheck. Your taxdollars at work.
From the Tribune here:
It may not be the most profound effect of global warming, but it could be the most painful: Climate change could bring a sharp increase in cases of kidney stones in Illinois and other Midwestern states, according to a new study.
By the year 2050, the new report estimates that a large chunk of Illinois will fall within America’s “kidney-stone belt,” which currently includes only Southern states. The Chicago area alone would see up to 100,000 extra cases each year.
“Climate change’s impact on public health will be broad, severe and affect all sectors of the public health system,” said George Luber, associate director for climate change at the CDC’s national center for environmental health.
The effects also could be expensive. The authors of Monday’s study estimate that the extra kidney stone cases would cost an additional $1 billion each year to treat.
Counteracting the effects of temperature may be as simple as having people drink more water.
The article goes on to say that it may be difficult to convince people to change their water drinking habits. But apparently, they have no problem trying to convince people that an invisible gas that is not harmful to anyone or anything is going to raise the temperature of an entire planet!
And I love the way that the year 2050 is becoming the new doomsday date for enviro-kooks. Here is my prediction for the future: Dicks like George Luber will be unemployed by 2020 when everyone finally figures out that the whole global warming scare is a bigger sham than Y2K.
So which prediction will likely come true first? Doom from CO2? Or unemployment for scare mongers?
My wife is a urology nurse. She says this is the biggest crock of shit she’s ever heard. But for genetic factors and disease processes, neither of which have anything to do with global warming…yet, hydration has everything to do with kidney stone prevention.