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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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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Liberals feel miserable so they want to force their misery on the rest of us. So it is with the climate change scam.


21 posted on 12/06/2010 5:41:54 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Carbon control legislation is the pixie dust in liberals dreams.


22 posted on 12/06/2010 5:42:45 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Does it reverse male pattern baldness and increase the female libido yet?


23 posted on 12/06/2010 5:46:08 AM PST by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: Shery
....Where do these people come from?

Texas: Dallas Opening Barack Obama Male Leadership Academy…

National Council of Churches of Christ Eco-Justice Programs

Semester at Sea Program Celebrates 20 Years at Pitt

Society of Environmental Journalists -- Your source for environment, energy, science, health and climate reporting.

24 posted on 12/06/2010 5:48:02 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife (Allhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2122429/posts)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Let’s get the professor’s salary on a diet - let’s say a 100% cut - and global warming pronouncements will end.


25 posted on 12/06/2010 6:00:12 AM PST by sergeantdave
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To: Dr. Thorne

Gee, if this half-baked theory is what “scientists” do these days, I think I can be a scientist too. Let me try:

The colder the climate, the more likely people are to pack on fat to keep warm and have an extra store of energy since food is scarce. Thus, Global Warming will decrease obesity.


26 posted on 12/06/2010 6:05:33 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Wow. They are openly talking about causing food shortages.

I think it is past time now for the balloon to go up.


27 posted on 12/06/2010 6:17:41 AM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: redgolum

Neo-Malthusianians. They just hate mankind.


28 posted on 12/06/2010 6:20:06 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
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.

Some lucky leftist can pick up Kaczynski's remote 1.4 acre property for $69,500. The only signs of civilization are jets flying overhead on their way to vacations and business deals. It's just enough to make a leftist go crazy with murderous envy.

29 posted on 12/06/2010 6:31:07 AM PST by Reeses
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To: Dr. Thorne

Their is a direct relationship between liberalism and mental disorder.


30 posted on 12/06/2010 6:31:19 AM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (Liberalism is against human nature. Practicing liberalism is detrimental to your mental stability.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
“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 –...

Notice that they feel the need to hedge their bets now.

31 posted on 12/06/2010 6:33:01 AM PST by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: phockthis

Remember that population reduction and control are at the heart of this. The “liberals” (sheeperals) think they’re on the side of the angels for “saving the planet”,

but they’re just the willing dupes of the Luciferian humanity hating movement.


32 posted on 12/06/2010 6:33:55 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: Leftism is Mentally Deranged

Even Algore, he of the expanded waistline, is not claiming climate change causes obesity!


33 posted on 12/06/2010 6:34:02 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Reeses

Actually, leftists want EVERYONE ELSE to live in a shack with no power or heat,

or better yet, clumped into very dense apartment buildings in cities where you “can” walk to get your food or go to your job.


34 posted on 12/06/2010 6:35:43 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: goldstategop

His obesity is caused by the non-release of his second chakra.


35 posted on 12/06/2010 6:36:37 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: MrB
Actually, leftists want EVERYONE ELSE to live in a shack with no power or heat, or better yet, clumped into very dense apartment buildings in cities where you “can” walk to get your food or go to your job.

All the better to control you and dole out what they believe you need. "Thank you kindly sir, may I have another?"

36 posted on 12/06/2010 6:42:23 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife (Allhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2122429/posts)
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To: facedown
“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.

Hedging their bets indeed. I find it hopeful that 1) they now feel the need to address the fact that more people every day are understanding that the AGW hoax is BS with an evil purpose and 2) they are forced to resort to such absolutely lunatic attempts to restart their faltering engine.

37 posted on 12/06/2010 6:57:27 AM PST by Sal (Pelosi is upside-down-sleeper, bat-shit crazy and she and her fellow chimps are riding the horses.dm)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
“The world is getting hotter and the world is getting fatter. Fundamentally fossil fuel energy is the cause of both.

Did Ian Roberts and his buddies walk to Cancun?

38 posted on 12/06/2010 7:00:47 AM PST by Moonman62 (Half of all Americans are above average.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Hilarious stuff. If I´ve ever seen the abuse of a correlational argument, this is it (And correlation abuse is rife in so many areas).

About obesity, these are some of my favorite takes:

Lustig on obesity, health and fructose:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

Taubes at the Swedish Medical Center on obesity:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEH0OZVHmvQ

A good scholarly summary from the journal Nutrition:

“In the face of contradictory evidence: report of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans Committee.”

http://www.nutritionjrnl.com/article/S0899-9007%2810%2900289-3/abstract


39 posted on 12/06/2010 7:05:16 AM PST by globelamp
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To: dead

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

Now that’s funny!


40 posted on 12/06/2010 7:08:41 AM PST by CharlesThe Hammer
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