[The_Egg]

Kidney Stones Tied to Global Warming

(July 15) -- Global warming could do more than hurt polar bears: It could force a rise in kidney stones, scientists warned Monday.

"We see a relationship between kidney stones and temperatures everywhere," says study co-author Margaret Pearle of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas. "Even in places with air conditioning, warmer temperatures mean more stones."

Kidney stones result from salts crystallizing in the kidneys, often triggered by dehydration, causing famously painful blockages. Nationwide, kidney stones strike about 12% of all men and 7% of women over their lifetime.

Warm southeastern states get 50% more cases than northeastern ones. The new research says global warming will drive this so-called kidney stone "belt" north triggering at least 1.6 million new cases by 2050.

The United Nations-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change last year warned that industrial emissions of greenhouse gases very likely would raise average global temperatures 3 to 7 degrees this century, raising risks for heat stroke and expansion of tropical diseases such as malaria.

The kidney stone finding, reported Monday by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, combines the panel's projections of higher U.S. temperatures with Medicare and Veterans Administration health records stretching from 1982 to 2005 to estimate how many extra U.S. kidney stone cases will result from global warming. The analysis predicts:

-- The cost of treating kidney stones will rise 25% by 2050, a bump of at least $900 million compared with 2000.

-- High-risk zones will cover 56% of states by 2050 and 70% by 2095.

-- Midwestern states will take the brunt of the expansion if cases rise in straight-line fashion with temperature.

"Everyone in warmer temperatures is at higher risk for kidney stones, so the findings make perfect sense," says nephrologist David Goldfarb of New York University Medical Center, who was not part of the study. "What's so impressive about this study is how they've brought together models of warming and kidney stones for the first time."

Kidney stones have been on the rise nationwide since 1976, and studies have shown summer bumps in cases, Pearle says.

Drinking water and staying cool can limit kidney stone risks, Goldfarb says. People with a family history of kidney stones are at higher risk. "And not everyone can stay inside. We see lots of soldiers from Iraq with kidney stones," Goldfarb adds.

[AnnonUSA]

OK just how fucking retarded does this global warming shit have to get before we really just say fuck it!

Up next: Global Warming causes Penis size shrinkage....and Dry vagina syndrome....

[The_Egg]

well with warming there will be drying. But its the global cooling that will make dicks shrink.

[taco]

just say no to hippy shit

[The_Egg]

Damn hippies and there Kidney stones...

[elroypornlab]

Every time a hippie says global warming Jesus kills a polar bear

[taco]

I blame it on the acid

[Mr Skinner]

I thought the Stones were on a tour promoting global warming?

[The_Egg]

Really I hear people who claim they don't believe in global warming bring it up the most.
or
people who claim its made up bullshit, then they start talking about God later in the same drunk conversation.

[Mr Skinner]

People who believe in god are not supposed to be drunk, period. Tell'em that next time..

[AnnonUSA]

I still say Global warming is a natural cycle of events.

The Earth has had mass extinctions roughly every 65 million years. The last one was about 65 Million years ago. So this may be the beginning of an extinction cycle. So give or take a couple of million years the Earth could be in deep shit....

[AnnonUSA]

Originally Posted by Mr Skinner

People who believe in god are not supposed to be drunk, period. Tell'em that next time..

Than why did Jesus turn his blood into Wine?

[Mr Skinner]

Lol what?

Good thing you're not christian. They'd have kicked ya out for this..

And ye couldn't get a crowd drunk on 6 liters..

Anyhoo...bible says ye can drink but not get drunk. Bible's a weird book, ye know..

[AnnonUSA]

Originally Posted by Mr Skinner

Lol what?

Good thing you're not christian. They'd have kicked ya out for this..

I would have left on my own, I know when I'm not wanted.

[The_Egg]

my take on it is this, If the term Global Warming will help us keep our planet clean, Then I will say go for it. I don't want to swim in a dirty ass lake. And I don't want my dog drinking out of a dirty lake. Who wants smog in the air? It would be great if we could get rid of it. The thing I hate abo