Here we go again. The latest round of climate change scare studies once again claims that “obesity” causes “global warming.” But previous studies have claimed that “global warming” will cause starvation. Perhaps the obesity causing climate change concerns will be solved by global warming causing starvation.
The latest round of contradictory climate claims resurfaced again this week.
WebMD: Obesity Epidemic May Contribute to Climate Change – 2019
Dec. 20, 2019 — Rising obesity rates worldwide may be contributing to the climate crisis, researchers report…Obese people produce more carbon dioxide than those of normal weight, the researchers said. Also, obese people consume greater quantities of food and beverages that need to be produced and transported to them, and transportation of obese people requires more consumption of fossil fuels. This means higher carbon dioxide emissions related to food production and transportation for obese people, the study authors explained. The researchers estimated that obesity contributes to an extra 700 megatons of carbon dioxide emissions per year worldwide, or about 1.6% of all human-caused emissions. Overall, being obese is associated with about 20% more greenhouse gas emissions (carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide) than being a normal weight, according to the study published online Dec. 20 in the journal Obesity.
UK Times: Obesity is bad for climate change, study shows – 2019
UK Times: Research shows obese people are each responsible for more than a tonne of extra CO2 emissions a year. If you can’t stay slim for yourself, maybe you should lose weight for the planet. A new study has calculated that obese people are each responsible for more than a tonne of extra carbon dioxide emissions a year, roughly equivalent to going on a transatlantic flight. The research, published in the journal Obesity, finds that in total the extra food consumed by the world’s 600 million obese people has a carbon footprint on a par with that of the UK. Their increased metabolism also means that every year they breathe out extra CO2 equivalent to Sweden’s annual output.
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But the same global warming causes just about everything industry also claims that “global warming” will cause starvation. See below:
2013: UK Guardian: ‘Millions face starvation as world warms, say scientists’ — UN urges: ‘We must act quickly’ – ‘America’s agricultural economy is set to undergo dramatic changes over the next three decades, as warmer temperatures devastate crops, according to a US government report. The draft US National Climate Assessment report predicts that a gradually warming climate and unpredictable severe weather’
2018: UN Warns Climate Change Is Driving Global Hunger – Climate Change is among the leading causes of rising global hunger according to a new report released by the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) this week. Pointing to extreme weather events, land degradation and desertification, water scarcity and rising sea levels, the authors show how climate change already undermines global efforts to eradicate hunger. Overall, the number of hungry people grew for the third year in row in 2017, reaching a total of 821 million worldwide. The paper warns that this number will continue to rise if countries fail to tackle climate change and to build resilience to its unavoidable impacts.
Monbiot: CO2 may cause the weather to get “stuck”, resulting in starvation
Nation Mag: Climate Change Is Here—and It Looks Like Starvation – 2019
UK greenie George Monbiot 2002 warned we only had 10 years! ‘Famine can only be avoided if the rich give up meat, fish and dairy’ — Now only 7 Months Left Until Starvation Sets In! – Monbiot on December 24, 2002: ‘Within as little as 10 years, the world will be faced with a choice: arable farming either continues to feed
2019: WEATHER CHANNEL hypes study claiming ‘climate change’ causes both starvation & obesity! ‘Exploring the Intricate Link between Climate Change and Obesity’ – “Climate change will increase under-nutrition through increased food insecurity from extreme weather events, droughts, and shifts in agriculture. Climate change also affects the prices of basic food commodities, especially fruits and vegetables, potentially increasing consumption of processed foods.” “Under-nutrition in early life increases the risk of adult obesity.”
2017: Obesity, climate change and hunger must be fought as one, health experts declare – Maybe the steps needed to reverse a pandemic of unhealthy weight gain are the same as those needed to solve two other crises of human health: malnutrition and climate change.
“Global warming” may also cause you to exercise more, which should help battle obesity.
Science says so: Global warming will make you exercise more in 2099!
Journal Nature study: “We combine our historical estimates with output from 21 climate models and project the possible physical activity effects of future climatic changes by 2050 and 2099. Our projection indicates that warming over the course of this century may increase net recreational physical activity in the United States. Activity may increase most during the winter in northern states and decline most during the summer in southern states.” “Here we conduct an empirical investigation of the relationship between meteorological conditions, physical activity and future climate change.”
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These new studies are recycling many past studies claiming that obesity is linked to global warming.
2013 report: Obesity promotes global warming — ‘The more each individual eats – the more he or she will contribute to rising emissions’ – ‘A peculiar new study published in the Journal of Epidemiology some researchers actually proposed such a bizarre linkage. According to these scientists, since growing and transporting food generates about a fifth of all manmade greenhouse gases, then the more each individual eats – the more he or she will contribute to rising emissions. The obvious implication, of course, is that since fat people eat more than lean ones, then they pose more of a threat to the climate’
Scientist claims humanity’s invention of agriculture ’caused dire medical disorders, infectious diseases, obesity , mental illnesses’ – ‘The shift from a hunter-gathering lifestyle to an agricultural way of life…has caused some of dire medical disorders, from infectious diseases and obesity to the mental illnesses that are rampant in modern, urban living’
Doctors: ‘Exertion-free living’ spawning two great threats — obesity and global warming
‘Moving about in a heavy body is like driving in a gas guzzler’
Claim: ‘Globesity: How climate change and obesity draw from the same roots’
LOL. Fat shaming goes climate:
"The extra food consumed by the world’s 600 million obese people has a CO2 footprint on a par w/the UK.
Their increased metabolism means that every year they breathe out extra CO2 equivalent to Sweden’s annual output."https://t.co/gQagUCuxnl
— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) December 20, 2019
https://twitter.com/DDoudat/status/1208253784457015297
Despite these contradictory studies, all kinds of “solutions” have been proposed to these alleged issues.
Oxford University Professor: Tax Meat to Reduce Climate Change and Obesity
Don’t get sick, you’ll cause ‘global warming’ – ‘CO2 emissions from healthcare in world’s largest economies’ account for 4% of global emissions – CO2 emissions from healthcare in the world’s largest economies account for about 5% of their national carbon footprints, according to a new study.
MIT Climate Scientist on ‘global warming’: ‘Ordinary people realize that this is a phony issue’ – Dr. Richard Lindzen: The time history of such matters as droughts, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes and temperature extremes is well recorded by official bodies like NOAA, and display no systematic increase. Indeed, some, like hurricanes, appear to be decreasing. These trends have been documented by R. Pielke, Jr., and even the IPCC has acknowledged the absence of significant associations with warming.
We’re All Living Longer, Despite What The ‘Experts’ Say!
Latest Nonsense: Climate Change To Lead To Fruit & Veg Shortage
STUDY: Vegetarian Diets ‘Worse’ For ‘Climate Change’ – Three Times ‘More Harmful to the Environment’ – Carnegie Mellon Study: ‘Eating lettuce is over three times worse in greenhouse gas emissions than eating bacon.’ ‘Lots of common vegetables require more resources per calorie than you would think. Eggplant, celery and cucumbers look particularly bad when compared to pork or chicken.’
Flashback 2009: Copenhagen climate summit: 1,200 limos, 140 private planes and caviar wedges
Climate Change Activists Meet Food Police: Obama Admin. Plans for New Dietary Guidelines to Include Global Warming – Calculating your ‘carbon footprint’ to replace counting calories?! ‘For the first time in the history of the guidelines, ‘sustainability’ is part of the agenda. Actual items on their Dietary Guidelines working group agenda include ‘immigration,’ ‘global climate change’ and ‘agriculture/aquaculture sustainability.’ -‘By favoring foods which activists think have a smaller carbon footprint, the new guidelines will increase the prices you pay for your food.’
CNN: MIT STUDY: ‘Climate change’ to make food safety worse and cause more fatal traffic accidents
Climate Depot Note: The UN is rapidly trying to expand its climate regulatory reach. The 2015 UN touted the Paris climate pact which was supposed to save the planet, but alas, it turns out it was not enough according to the UN. (See: UN admits ‘historic’ Paris climate pact did not save Earth after-all! Now says: Cutting CO2 ‘not enough’ – ‘We must change food production to save the world’).
