You don't have to read the entire article just to get the logic behind this claim.
Global warming may increase kidney stones: researchers
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080714210823.ys7a8mb8&show_article=1
What is especially sad is that a reporter considered this "newsworthy". You know, my youngest son passed gas in the hallway this morning instead of at the breakfast table. I'd like to submit that as news today. It's just as valuable and credible.
Reading the article there are so many sides to debate, but frankly it just isn't worth it. It's stupid. Stupid news for these modern times we live in where actual news is lost.
Nope... I couldn't resist... take for instance the comments posted to the article. One person was astute enough to catch just ONE reason alone that researchers didn't consider; one I know to be true as I lived in the south. "They drink larger amounts of sweet tea in the stone belt of the south. Large amounts of tea are know to cause kidney stones."
I struggle as a sane and rational man when I consistently read tripe like this.
Thank God for comments like this one: "Let's look at the bright side of this whole thing. For every new kidney stone patient we will have one less frost bite patient." I've made a new best friend.
I'll close with this last comment which sums it up for me, "I would find it even more funny if we were not trying to use money to solve a problem that doesn't even exist."
I'm sure if I tried hard enough I could get my local government to waste money on mirrors to reflect light around a very old and large tree in my backyard to grow grass under it as a playground is there without grass for the children to run ... more »
