Kelly's Korner Komment and Komplaint

KELLY’S KORNER KOMPLAINT
You’ve Got to Be Kidding Me!
Did you know that you are guilty of causing others to have Kidney Stones? Your driving your car, combined with bovine flatulence, and having children, that is.
Kidney Stones Tied to Global Warming
By Dan Vergano,
USA Today
Posted: 2008-07-15 16:06:52
Filed Under: Health News, Science News
(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."

As I read this article it amazed me how much speculation is involved in these wild comments about global warming:
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.
And of course they are very congratulatory about their combination of fiction with maybe a little fact:
"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."
Now, take note of these words from Apologetics Press, an article entitled, “Cows, Kids, and CO2” by Dr. Dave Miller (http://www.apologeticspress.org/articles/3365 ):
A 400-page United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization report has identified rapidly growing herds of cattle as the greatest threat to the environment (Lean, 2006). We are told that the 1.5 billion cattle of the Earth are responsible for 18% of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming—more than cars, planes, and all other forms of transportation combined. More than a third of the greenhouse gas, methane (which warms the world 20 times faster than carbon dioxide), is emitted by cows and their manure. And it’s not just methane, since cattle also produce more than 100 other polluting gases, including more than two-thirds of the world’s emissions of ammonia—one of the main causes of acid rain (Lean, 2006). That’s right, gaseous expulsions by cows do more to damage the planet than cars. The environmentalists are beside themselves.
Miller goes on to state:
But it doesn’t stop there. While it is common for environmentalists to blame mankind as the prime perpetrator of environmental destruction, now one environmentalist insists that, more specifically, children are significant culprits in the human assault on the natural order. Parents, we are told, should limit their offspring to no more than two children in order to reduce carbon dioxide output. The report published by the environmentalist group, Optimum Population Trust, insists that the greatest thing one could do to help the future of the planet would be to have one less child (Templeton, 2007).
So, maybe if we got rid of all the cows and all the kids things would be better, do you think? Actually that has been basically suggested by Dr. Eric R. Pianka, “the University of Texas evolutionary ecologist and lizard expert who the Academy named the 2006 Distinguished Texas Scientist,” (http://www.apologeticspress.org/articles/3740 ) that to save the world 90% of the population should be eliminated, possibly by intentionally using a deadly virus (see documentation at the URL provided above).
Miller continues:
The arrogance of measly man thinking he can control the forces of nature by his paltry tinkering with the created order—as if he even had the knowledge and wisdom to do so. Ultimately, this feeble, faltering faux pas manifests willful ignorance and a lack of faith in the Creator. The environmentalists need a healthy dose of spiritual reality—the same one Job received when he thought it necessary to question God’s superintendence of the Universe (Job 38:2-5,21; 40:2,14)…. When humans eliminate God from their thinking and jettison the biblical worldview, insanity begins to sound sensible. That’s the real “inconvenient truth.”
I have stated many times that I believe that we are responsible for taking care of this world that God has given us, and has put under us (Genesis 1:26-27). But too many are being sold an empty barrel of foolishness based on a denial of God. And that is my Kelly’s Korner Komplaint for today.
P.S. You can check out many great topics concerning God, Atheism, etc. at http://www.apologeticspress.org/.