Global Warming To Cause Kidney Stones

It was bad enough that this global warming fiasco is causing sea levels to rise, glaciers to melt, polar bears to starve, hurricanes to intensify, droughts to worsen, and fruit to freeze right on the vine, it now appears that if global warming is allowed to continue unabated, we could be looking at monster kidney stones.

More Americans are likely to suffer from kidney stones in the coming years as a result of global warming, according to researchers at the University of Texas.

Kidney stones, which are formed from dissolved minerals in the urine and can be extremely painful, are often caused by caused by dehydration, either by not drinking enough liquid or losing too much due to high heat conditions.

If global warming trends continue as projected by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2007, the United States can expect as much as a 30 percent growth in kidney stone disease in some of its driest areas, said the findings published in Monday's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The increased incidence of disease would represent between 1.6 million and 2.2 million cases by 2050, costing the US economy as much as one billion dollars in treatment costs.

Panic in the streets!

Who can deny that kidney stones are caused by low hydration? What we can plausibly deny is that there is any man-made contribution to the heating of a global climate that began to cool about ten years ago.

Every day brings another story of hysteria.

Moral of the story: drink more water.

h/t Moonbattery