Cancun Climate Summit Speaker Blames Obesity on Fossil Fuels
- Posted on December 6, 2010 at 11:37am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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A U.K. professor and scientist has offered some breaking news at the Cancun climate change summit: the world is fat because of fossil fuels. According to him, if we cut down on fossil fuels we will also cut obesity.
The London Telegraph reports:
The world needs to go on a “fossil fuel diet” to stop both climate change and obesity, according to health experts.
Professor Ian Roberts of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine said there is a direct correlation between … carbon emissions and expanding waistlines.
He said as soon as countries begin using cars and other energy intensive machines, it not only causes an increase in greenhouse gases but also in the population’s average weight, because people exercise less.
He said that the health problem was another reason to tackle carbon emissions.
“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.”
(H/T: Gateway Pundit)
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Societal Misfit
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 12:34pmAll I can say is what will these idiots come up with next? It just goes to prove my point that one thing that they do not teach in college is common sense.
Look, I am a 41 year old male, I may not eat some of the healthiest foods, I drink on occasion, however I do work out on a regular basis and I am a lean and toned 175lbs. My point is that for many to exercise or not is a choice one makes. While non exercise, or diet for some may lead to an expanding waist line no real direct correlation can be made between the use of fossil fuels and increased BMI, the attempt at correlation alone is one huge stretch and to be quite honest here, well it is bunk.
Again I am all for clean air, water, and all that but the most claims being made to try and prop up AGW, Climate Change or whatever they are calling it now are a load of horse!#%^.
What you do not hear is that we are nearing the end of an 11year solar cycle in which the energy output of the sun is reaching its maximum for one, what I am waiting to see is what the effect will be when the next cycle starts. I understand the whole heat island effect of large urban areas, have since I was about 10yo, things like that but to claim this and that to prop up global warming while denying the main contributing factors is what makes the science more bunk than science.
It like the lighting of a candle in a 10‘by10’ room, you ought to try this sometime, and calculating how long it takes for that one candle to raise the temperature in the room by 1 degree. Its a boring but also interesting experiment. The point of the experiment being about simple science and physics as opposed to postulation.
I love it though when some claim that because of what I believe I am a denier, especially when those that make such a claim do not even know me, or they think that because I do not have a PHD that I could not possibly know or understand science although I made straight A’s all throughout school and the funny thing is that even today at 41 years of age I still find myself experimenting with this or that. lol
Report Post »laughing_dingo
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 3:20pmyou stated
“What you do not hear is that we are nearing the end of an 11year solar cycle in which the energy output of the sun is reaching its maximum for one”
The reason you don‘t hear it is because it isn’t true. The claim that solar cycle length proves the sun is driving global warming is based on a single study published in 1991. Subsequent research, including a paper by a co-author of the original 1991 paper, finds the opposite conclusion. Solar cycle length as a proxy for solar activity tells us the sun has had very little contribution to global warming since 1975.
Report Post »Societal Misfit
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 5:58pmLaughing Dingo said “The reason you don‘t hear it is because it isn’t true. The claim that solar cycle length proves the sun is driving global warming is based on a single study published in 1991. Subsequent research, including a paper by a co-author of the original 1991 paper, finds the opposite conclusion. Solar cycle length as a proxy for solar activity tells us the sun has had very little contribution to global warming since 1975.”
Sorry to disagree with you but you are wrong as this is but one of many factors driving the warming trends, to whatever degree. To omit it or say that it is not is ignorant. Like it or not it is one of the may driving factors. As well if you take the logic that what you stated is based upon one could postulate based on such logic that if the sun were to burn out tomorrow the earth would not freeze.
Report Post »Societal Misfit
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 6:19pmOne other thing I want you to consider based upon the logic of the argument you posted.
Look at Mars. The atmosphere of Mars is comprised primarily of Co2 and other gases. Temperatures on the surface are extremely cold. Now based upon the premise that the AGW crowd make about Co2 being the main contributing factor to global warming and based upon the logic given in the argument you posted then temperatures on the Martian surface should be much warmer than they actually are even with the absence of human intervention.
As well if there is no direct correlation that the sun itself has had little effect on warming then temperatures on either planet would be exponentially colder than they are currently.
That said though you missed the main point of my entire post and that is to say the one thing that is truly missing in the whole Global Warming argument is the pure science. I say that because now science is more monetarily and politically driven thus nullifying its credibility since the scientists that are greedy are more apt to cook the science in compliance with whatever the funding mandates. However “Real” scientists do it strictly for the science and discovery aspect and their love of both.
Report Post »cornfed440
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 12:34pmWe all get heavier as we get older because there’s a lot more information in our heads. So, I’m not fat, I‘m just really intelligent and my head couldn’t hold any more so it started filling up the rest of me.
Report Post »(That‘s my story and I’m stickin’ to it)
TXPilot
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 2:03pmAnd don’t forget CORNFED440, fat people are highly famine resistent…….if food gets as scarce as they say, during the approaching economic collapse, all of us larger types will still be kicking…and watching all the emaciated vegens dropping like flies…….lol
Report Post »Bad Thunder
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 12:33pmwhen the batteries in our new electric (rechargable by coal fired electricity producing power plants) powered cars go dead we will all lose weight walking our dumb asses back home….
Report Post »Freedom1984
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 12:26pmThis is one of the stupidest things I have read. First of all the BMI, makes almost everyone FAT. So that form of categorizing is just plain silly, unless you are an aneroxic, or were lucky enough to be born tall, think and not very muscular.
But now to blame Global Warming on “obesiety”. This is just a trick to let Moo-chelee and her commie husband to place even more restrictions on the foods we eat.
Report Post »Dale
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 12:25pmI‘m only glad that I don’t attend this pinhead’s class. His reasoning powers are just too silly to comprehend. I would flunk because I couldn’t agree with him, and he is obviously either too lazy to research his subject; or too blinded by al gore’s brilliance to be objective.
Report Post »dtitus1304
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 12:23pmSo how would hybrid cars and the new electric cars help us excercise more?
Report Post »bcarron4
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 12:22pmand because football follows baseball I guess we can say that baseball causes football, what a waste of time
Report Post »Lantern
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 12:14pmThe only way I could think to tie fossil-fuels to obesity, was corn. Did food companies always use corn syrup in place of real sugar? There weren’t nearly as many fat people when I was growing up (60′s-70′s) as there are now. Maybe we were more active, outdoors, or maybe it was the food. I ate all kinds of sugary sweets when I was growing up and didn’t gain any weight. I used to walk 10 miles to get to the store. I lived in the country. Sometimes, people would pick my brothers and I up and give us a ride.
Report Post »Nowadays, people are considered handicapped, because they can’t quit eating. Fat people take all the handicap spaces and all the handicap scooters in stores, because they are too fat to walk.
Why is it always the skinniest people you see jogging? I have never seen a fat person out jogging.
I know, I am just rambling, but this is one of my pet peeves. Did Oprah make it “chic” to be fat?
Race
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 9:05pmCorn syrup is not the cause of flabby butt syndrome. People sit in their cars, sit in the office (since we moved away from a manufacturing economy to a service oriented one), sit on the couch losing IQ points to the idiot box or Nintendo/X-Box/PlayStation, all the while stuffing their gobs with high sugar/high fat foods. The answer, of course, is to cut calories and get off their ever-spreading bums.
Report Post »dablooz
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 12:04pmAfter his diatribe, perhaps the good professor could swim home from the conference and show us all how it’s done?
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 12:02pmAnd I suppose all those private jets and limos that brought these idiots to the summit were powered by “hope and change”. The hypocrisy of these people is staggering. They just want us riding bicycles so all the good parking spots up front at Walmart are available to them……pfft…
Report Post »Tri-ox
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 12:02pmI think they are on to something here. Our failed president’s woman has an enormous butt, and she does spend a lot of time sitting on Air-Force-One en route to vacation-land. Let‘s experiment by eliminating the obama’s vacation budget / carbon footprint and see michelle’s butt shrinks.
Report Post »JD Carp
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 12:00pmWhat is this bone head basing his theory on? Actually the question is are fossil fuels responsible for all of the world’s ills? If so, why did the last ice age end before man came on the scene? And finally, based on your brilliant theories what is the earth’s ideal temperature?
Report Post »laughing_dingo
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 12:18pm“are fossil fuels responsible for all of the world’s ills? ” No.
“why did the last ice age end before man came on the scene?” Milankovitch cycles
“what is the earth’s ideal temperature?” Ideal for what?
Report Post »Camo Pants
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 2:02pmI’m assuming to support human life is the ideal temp?
Report Post »laughing_dingo
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 3:13pmCamo Pants
Humans live in many areas of the globe and have adapted their ways to each. I don’t know if you can specify an “ideal climate” for human life. What is important is that we have set up our societies for the current climate, our farming, coastal residences, cites were all built under the climate we have had for the last few hundred years. With rapid climate change we humans have to mitigate and animals will have to adapt. Unfortunately, adaptation takes a long time and the change in climate will occur much faster.
Report Post »neversaynever
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 11:58amIt is true that when I lived in France, many more people walked and most were more fit than the average american. However, I live in a rural area, and it would be complete nonsense to walk 5 miles to get to the nearest store.
Report Post »JohnQTaxpayer
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 11:58amA U.K. professor and scientist declared his mind has turned to mush because of fossil fuels. According to him, if we cut down on fossil fuels he will not be so stupid.
Further proof is that fossil fuels were the result of his being an ignoramus is that the dinosaurs were not able to steer the planet away from the meteor that killed them, because we use the byproduct of those stupid dinosaurs, he is also stupid as a snail.
JQT
Report Post »Fuzzy
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 11:58amI don’t have a Harvard Degree, but let’s try this correlation on for size. The industrial revolution of the 20th century caused farming to be more efficient, which led to an abundance of food, higher living standards, a more educated work force which led to a more productive work force, and more leisure time to sit around and eat.
Report Post »BQI
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 11:56amThis is called desperation. The whole climate change thing is hanging by a thread. No one of any real intelligence buys into this stuff. BQI has an article today about the “Gangsta” behavior of the Obama administration to try to get climate change legislation / regulation implemented.
See Black Quill and Ink: http://www.blackquillandink.com
Report Post »Rapunzel
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 1:02pmHi BQI, I haven’t seen you post for awhile! Glad to see you are still around!
Report Post »wampanoag
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 11:54amThere is correlation between global warming and prolongation of human life too. Since the automobile was invented life expectancy for American males rose from 55 to 85. What do you say about that professor?
Report Post »Pocono Countryboy
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 6:26pmDing Ding Ding..Give this one a Kewpie Doll!
Yes, less consumption of fossil fuel meant you had to physically work harder to achieve the same results thereby resulting in a skinnier populace.
However they all died young.
Wait.. I get it.. less fossil fuel=shorter life spans=SAVE THE PLANET”
Brought to you by your friendly neighborhood enviro-whack-job.
Report Post »J.C. McGlynn
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 11:53amGREAT! Drink diesel. Gain weight. Knew I was doing something wrong. Think I’ll stop drinking now.
Report Post »Bill Wallace
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 11:51amI am adding something to the Profs list.
Carbon emissions are also a cause for the decline of intellect in the world. Less clean air kills brain cells and soon we have profs giving lectures on how fossil fuels are to blame for everything.
Report Post »ApplePiePatriot
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 11:50am…All part of the socialist plan to redistribute wealth via the global warming myth and carbon trading.
Report Post »ColoradoDad
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 11:48amGive me a break! Oh, and break me off a piece of that Kit-Kat barrrrrr!!! Where’s my car!
Report Post »Race
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 11:44amYou first, slick. I wanna see your retarded ass out in the field behind a mule-drawn plow, and at the end of a hard day’s labor retire to your hovel sans electrical conveniences. I wanna see you using shank’s mare, or god forbid a flatulence producing nag, to slowly make your way into the local village where you can beg the blacksmith to make you some nails.
Report Post »republitarian
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 12:17pmLOL!
He’s right about the correlation, though. Pretty sneaky. I guess since everyone knows global warming is a hoax, they have to find new reasons for us to hate fossil fuel.
Report Post »psalms
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 2:32pmOMGoodness, that is funny and true. Let’s all go back to the beginning and cut trees down to heat our homes and cook our food. Maybe after that we can discover coal and after that perhaps electricity? Imagine the possibilities.
Report Post »->Click For Brain Enema<-
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 11:40amHe is so right no fossil fuels, no cars, you walk. Climate change our new scapegoat.
Report Post »kevinbfromneworleans
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 11:39amI can’t think of much to say other than… Jeez! How stupid can someone be!!
Report Post »tobywil2
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 12:00pmCancun climate summit speaker Ian Roberts, stated that there is a direct correlation between carbon emissions and expanding waistlines. For once, the man is right. The use of fossil fuels has a direct correlation to prosperity and productivity. Seldom do the wannabe tyrants admit that their objective is to reduce prosperity and starve the population into submission. The man should be applauded for his honesty if not the validity of his argument. At last the tyrants admit that hunger and poverty is the objective of the global warming initiatives. http://commonsense21c.com/
Report Post »338lapua
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 1:44pm@kevin….let me plant an image in your head. Al Gore sitting on a stool next to this guy with a snare drum and a cymbal, doing rimshots everytime he finishes a sentence. The whole audience then starts to snap their fingers in an applause like gesture(clapping is gauche). It took me a while to wipe the tears away and stop laughing! I am sick.
Report Post »bookofwisdom
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 11:39amWell, it‘s good to know that I’m overweight because of the climate and not because I love sweets and always overeat…What a relief. Where’s my snickers bar…May God Bless.
Report Post »tobywil2
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 11:47amOkay, I promise to quit drinking crude oil! If the wannabe tyrant admits that global warming is a fraud why on earth should we believe what he says about food?
http://commonsense21c.com/
Report Post »Konservative PUNK
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 12:02pmIn Europe, I have rarely seen overweight people in public like I do here in the States. They don’t drive much over there. Lots of public transit and walking. I believe it is our cars that contribute to our weight problem. However, US cities are not designed like Euroopean cities. Remember that the majority of European cities were built centuries before automobiles existed. The US would have to structure it’s cities like the Old World cities in order to adopt their transportation methods and thereby reduce American obesity.
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 12:18pmhe, he, lol
And I thought it was because I can’t get off my couch, thank GOD for my fossil fueled conveyor belt from my fridge! Oh, BTW, who took my Twinkies!!!!!!!
“will the last socialist out of America, please leave the incandescent lights on!”
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 12:19pmSo, we eliminate oil consumption the BMI will go down? In this case, what does the UK nut job expect us to wind up doing, eliminate the oil, no food transported, then people will starve to death, thus the BMI will drop in the states.
Simple solution huh?
Report Post »Konservative PUNK
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 12:20pmJust look at city skylines. In Europe, the skyscrapers are in a ring around the ‘old world’ city centers. In the US, skyscrapers are tallest in the center. Our cities were not built for foot traffic. Americans want to live in the sub-urbs and have a lawn for their children to play on. Freedom means just that, we are free to be obese if we choose. If the government were not involved in healthcare, they wouldn’t give a damn about our obesity. I suggest the real answer is for the government to get out of healthcare and get back to their intended purpose: Preserving our Freedom! Let us live and die the way that we choose to, the way that we used to have the right to.
Report Post »gotea
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 12:20pmNever gonna happen. While I live in an urban area, there is no way (if I had kids) I would send my children to a city school. If you follow the time line, I would suggest that the 1960′s civil rights movement lead to desegregation lead to busing that lead to white flight that lead to us being fat and caused the Americans to exercise less and caused the Earth to warm. Simply the civil rights movement caused global warming according to this guy. Of course this theory is easily debunked by getting on a bus in any major city and seeing how fat the people riding it are. …..No I could also correlate the rise of Feminism and its link to crime, unemployment, and the destruction of the family unit. (but that would be really controversial lol)
Report Post »RightWrite
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 1:01pmI want pancakes with my butter — real butter, not the fake crap; don’t forget the lake of syrup. Ever try chocolate ships in your pancakes? Awesome!
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 1:14pmYup! Fossil fuels have a horriffic caloric count. …and the CARBS! GEEZ! Next time I feel the need to go out and gorge myself on coal and gasoline, I might need to rethink myself and just go for twinkies and Pepsi. That might be less fattening.
What a moron.
Report Post »countryboy42
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 1:37pmSo THAT‘S why I can’t gain weight. I just need to drive more! Who knew? All this time I just thought it because of a high metabolism. Now my big question is, what’s cheaper, food or gas?
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 2:09pm@Konservative PUNK@
The problem of obesity in the US isn’t the temperature, or the design of out cities, it’s our welfare system. We didn’t have a problem with fat people or homeless people in the US until the democrats declared war on poverty and hunger. Now we pay people to sit in their free housing and eat crap that we pay for while they smoke dope, watch Jerry Springer, and make babies.
Report Post »Konservative PUNK
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 2:25pmI agree with Swampy.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 2:45pmThey just don’t give up, do they? I guess the people in the UK are so stupid they believe all this garbage because “he” says it even though it is based on lies. Everytime I hear the work “green” I tune out whatever is being said, sort of like the boy who cried wolf, because I am sick to death of the implications of what will happen if we don’t do something NOW. Blah, blah, blah.
Report Post »CultureWarriors
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 3:45pmThese people are lunatics. It’s scary. Why don’t they actually go out and produce something useful instead of sitting around blabbering hot air. This is just more proof that liberalism is a mental disorder.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8DnA4Ro9tQ
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BoiseBaked
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 7:26pmThere is a linear relationship between my middle finger and Professor Ian Roberts’, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, hypothesis. I wonder if there is a linear relationship between Robert’s IQ and and his shoe size?
Report Post »dutchtouch
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 10:33pmDID global warming just JUMPED THE SHARK?
Report Post »CYCLONE
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 7:07pmTHANKYOU @ TobyWil2 … that was my exact first thought…
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