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Fat people Cause global warming
by politisite | May 18, 2008 at 11:00 am | 850 views | 13 comments
by politisite
Claim: Fat people cause global Warming
Over weight Folks have to go through school being heckled and abused. Usually in Adulthood these blastings start to tapper as peole understand more about genetics and environmental issues that cause a variety of problems in ones life. Well now researcher are targeting Obese folks for contributing to Global warming at greater rates then thin people. Yeah like Overweight people don't have enough issues and problems that they need scientists to tell them that being fat is contributing to the demise of the world.
Let this writer share this with all of the skinny people in the world. How many skinny woman are in the worlds greatist paintings? My preferred body type is BBW so take that to the lab and study it.
LONDON, May 17 (UPI) -- Some British experts say fat people are contributing to global warming more than those who are thin because they require more food and fuel.
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine scientists said the transportation and food costs of obese people are contributing to increasing energy prices and food defects.
"We are all becoming heavier and it is a global responsibility. Obesity is a key part of the big picture," researcher Phil Edwards said.
Critics argue that food waste causes a much bigger strain on resources than obesity and it is unfair to blame overweight individuals for the world's problems, The Daily Telegraph reported Saturday.
"Obese people have enough issues to deal with without being demonized for their impact on the environment. The truth is all people are an environmental burden," said Keith-Thomas Ayoob of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York.
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May 18, 2008 at 11:00 am by politisite, 850 views, 13 comments
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at 12:19 on May 18th, 2008
Scientists love to negate variables like the ones you mentioned. The book statistics and damn lies helps folks understand the process.
at 12:44 on May 18th, 2008
Politisite, I guess it's safe to assume this information has, for a portion of it's proof as a basis, some form of statistical data. That put me in mind of that great line out of Oliver Stone's film, JFK, uttered by Kevin Costner, referring to theoretical physics:
.... can prove an elephant can hang from a cliff with its tail tied to a daisy ....
Given stats were used, a similar claim can be made for statistics as well.
at 12:56 on May 18th, 2008
Karen, You mean an Elephant CAN"T hang over a cliff from a daisy? I am flabbergasted
at 13:09 on May 18th, 2008
Of course it can, Al! You just have to get together the statistics and charts that prove it!
My favorite example of the use of statistics. In another phase of my life, part of my job description required that I do data entry. At the time I received my evaluation, listed among the ratings was the statistic that I had a .5% error rate, relating to number of mistakes made during input.
I countered that statistic saying, "No, no, no, no, no! That statistic SHOULD read that I have a 99.5% ACCURACY rate!"
It's all in how you look at it!
at 18:02 on May 18th, 2008
but before you find the stats you have to get a research grant. Without that what's the use?
at 18:28 on May 18th, 2008
I'd LOVE to see the paperwork for that research grant!
at 16:12 on May 18th, 2008
politisite, I like this story. It's good stuff. Guess with that scientific argument, people who are fitness crazy contribute more to global warming in that the CO2 they exhale is in larger mass quantities than a sedate person. Is it any wonder scientists are at odds over the theories of other scientists when Junk Science reigns supreme with some, just to get their idiotic views published, I for one think so, but then that is just my scientific as a Scientician now published on Now Public. hahahah. As for Elephants comments, just because we may not have tried this experiment, doesn't mean it is impossible or less fun to try.
at 17:20 on May 18th, 2008
Barry, Anyone who like to do aerobics to get their heart rate up do indeed increase O2 intake and co2 output. Again the research was only looking at what heavy folks did not comapered with skinny people who eat and have to work out.
I am a published researcher. Most folks know me here as politisite but my research is is under my real name Albert N. Milliron
Diurnal and seasonal rhythms of melatonin, cortisol and testosterone in interior Alaska.
Source: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
at 19:32 on May 18th, 2008
I was making a comparison there my Friend, everyone pollutes in one way or another, blaming fat people,would be the same as blaming meat eaters over vegetarians, one is a cow which farts versus veggies which require herbicides, pesticides, sometimes fungicides. Both require transportation to market, hence both pollute almost as equally. For sake of argument, scientists should stop pointing fingers and get on with the problem of solving the problem instead of useless junk science reporting on every tiny cause of it, there are way more skinny people than fat people in the world, so fat people are only a blip in the big scheme of things. Imagine how much this scientific study polluted, getting to interview all these fat people, then the faxes, news printing, edits, colour copies, printing and binding the documents etc, surprising no one does studies on the pollution aspects of that!
at 17:00 on May 18th, 2008
The article could have sited red meat eaters as a global warming cause. If more people eat meat we need more cows to feed them who in turn create more methyane.
at 17:12 on May 18th, 2008
I think people got bored of blaming flatulent cows... I dunno, I think it's fun to blame flatulent cows for as many environmental ills as possible.
at 17:59 on May 18th, 2008
Come on people. This makes perfect sense just as many of your comments do. All variables will have an impact on your overall carbon footprint. Consuming more food (or more beef, specifically) does create more greenhouse gasses. There is a term in economics called "ceterus paribus" and it means all things hald constant. That is the only way scientists can make conclusions based on quantitative research. So YES, if you travel more or by more poluting means; buy more manufactured goods; heat or cool a larger home; don't recycle; or eat more you ARE responsible for more greenhouse gasses that someone who eats less, "ceterus paribus". In other words being fat is ONE contributing factor in isolation. You cannot conclude that, therefore all fat people generate more greenhouse gasses than all thin people. Just like people who drive SUV's. I drive an SUV and it gets about 10 MPG so most people would think I am an environmemntal bad guy. However I drive a fraction of the miles in a year than average and so I actually contribute LESS than average. So if you are fat and you want to be "green" just make changes to offset the extra energy you consume in your larger diet.
at 19:32 on May 18th, 2008
Good analogy East ray