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Global Warming Causing Kidney Stones — Especially in Men
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One more reason to hate Global Warming: Kidney stones.
According to Dr. David Goldfarb, Chief of Nephrology and VA NYHHS ACOS of Research, projections have shown that global warming will extend the “stone belt” from the southern US to the Midwest and then the north.
Dr. Goldfarb is co-author with Dr. Robert J. Fakheri, NYU School of Medicine, of an article entitled, “Ambient Temperature as a Contributor to Kidney Stone Formation: Implications of Global Warming.” The article appears in Kidney International, 2011.
Will this environmental change affect both men and women? “We showed that men were much more affected than women by heat,” noted Dr. Goldfarb. “As average temperature goes up state-by-state, the prevalence of stones goes up but the slope is much steeper for men than for women. Not sure why, but possibly men have more outdoor jobs and some evidence shows that women do a better job of drinking more when it’s hot,” he explained.
“My new hypothesis is that the cause of increasing prevalence of stones is due to migration of people from rural places to urban places, which are significantly hotter,” Dr. Goldfarb explained. “On a day like today (high 90 degrees), the temperature in N.Y.C. might be up to 9 degrees hotter than in Rockland County. There are now, or soon will be, more people living in urban than in rural places for the first time in history. I have no data to support this causing more stones, but it’s quite plausible. Obviously, when people move like that they also change diets and work in less exposed places so, I can’t say anything more than it’s an interesting idea.”
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My eyes are rolling, you just can’t see them.
I guess nobody told the medical profession that the planet has been cooling since 1998 and that we are probably in for colder times for the next 60 years
“THE DEMISE OF SUNSPOTS—DEEP COOLING AHEAD?
Don J. Easterbrook, Professor of Geology, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
The three studies released by NSO’s Solar Synoptic Network this week, predicting the virtual vanishing of sunspots for the next several decades and the possibility of a solar minimum similar to the Maunder Minimum, came as stunning news. According to Frank Hill
“the fact that three completely different views of the Sun point in the same direction is a powerful indicator that the sunspot cycle may be going into hibernation.”
The last time sunspots vanished from the sun for decades was during the Maunder Minimum from 1645 to 1700 AD was marked by drastic cooling of the climate and the maximum cold of the Little Ice Age.”
http://climaterealists.com/index.php?id=7887&linkbox=true&position=2
Maurice Strong ( reported as currently wanted by Interpol and hanging out in China after stealing a large sum of money ) planted the seeds of global warming at the behest of Rothschild. It is another bankster con.
Global Warming , AGW, Climate Change = AGENDA21 + CARBON TAXES = LAND THEFT + FRAUD
Under the cloak of UN local Agenda 21 sustainable development your private property will be confiscated and you will be herded into cites. This policy is referred to as ” re-wilding”.
“Step by step, piece by piece, the Wildlands Project is coming to fruition. The Project, foundational to the U.N.Biodiversity Treaty which was never ratified by the U.S. Senate, calls for approximately 50 percent of the United States to be set aside as “wildlands”, where no human can enter.”
http://www.sweetliberty.org/issues/rewilding/stepbystep.html
How Edmund de Rothschild Managed to Let 179 Governments Pay Him for Grasping Up to 30% of the Earth
Summary: After Edmund de Rothschild’s statement, without basis, at the 4th World Wilderness Congress in 1987, that CO2 is the cause of a non-existent global warming – and that combating it needs money (our money), he founded the World Conservation Bank for this reason. In 1991 its name was changed to The Global Environment Facility (GEF). The purpose of this facility is to lend money to the poorest countries, printed by the IMF out of thin air, and with the guarantee of our governments. The facility takes wilderness areas with mineral riches as security. The GEF money is then to flow back to our governments as reimbursement for paid loans. I.e. We give away our tax money. For what? When a country cannot repay loans to the GEF it must give up a piece of its territory to the Rothschild banks (GEF, IMF, World Bank) – up to 30% of the Earth are meant. If land cannot be offered as collateral the country must starve (Haiti, Argentina and others). Rothschild´s stroke of genius was that he had his GEF smuggled into the UN system at the Rio UN Summit in 1992 by his friend, Maurice Strong. So now high-ranking ministerial officials from 179 countries are in the the council of the bank – blessing Rothschild grabbing the world! This article brings interviews with a man who was a participant at the 4th World Wilderness Congress,a man who knows what happened there and knew Rothschild personally – as well as David Rockefeller, who tried to threaten him to silence about what he had learned at the Wilderness Congress. The GEF is to manage the money just promised to the developing countries in Copenhagen (100 billion dollars a year from 2020 – 30 bn over the next 3 years) with the help of the World Bank. However, Rothschild does not leave it there. He and his henchmen are now joining the race of certain governments (China, Saudi Arabia), to buy up large areas of farmland in developing countries, having the crops transported back to the home countries. This leaves the locals, already starving, with much less crops available – with food prices rising rapidly – which is exactly Rothschild’s expectation. This makes people flee from Africa to Europe. Food prices have doubled in the past year or so – so that many people in Haiti before the earthquake, could not even afford to buy mud pies with minimal nourishment. And so it goes on. This is the ultimate goal of Rothschild’s New World Order.
http://euro-med.dk/?p=13656