advocates have, after being proven incorrect on so many counts have found a new reason - FAT PEOPLE! scientists warned that the increase in big-eaters means more food production — a major cause of CO2 gas emissions warming the planet, overweight people are also more likely to drive, adding to environmental damage,
the study by Dr Edwards and colleague Ian Roberts is published in the International Journal of Epidemiology, Dr Edwards went on: “We are not just pointing the finger at fat people, all populations are getting fatter and it has an impact on the environment, and Oxfam warned yesterday that the number of people hit by climate-related disasters will soar by more than half in the next six years to 375million,
you fatties out there hang your heads in shame! what a load of b******s! the tree huggers are really getting desperate to win their case now.
Tuesday, 21 April 2009
I Have Never Belived In Global Warming Being A Man Made Problem,
but in an act of desperation,
advocates have, after being proven incorrect on so many counts have found a new reason - FAT PEOPLE! scientists warned that the increase in big-eaters means more food production — a major cause of CO2 gas emissions warming the planet, overweight people are also more likely to drive, adding to environmental damage,
the study by Dr Edwards and colleague Ian Roberts is published in the International Journal of Epidemiology, Dr Edwards went on: “We are not just pointing the finger at fat people, all populations are getting fatter and it has an impact on the environment, and Oxfam warned yesterday that the number of people hit by climate-related disasters will soar by more than half in the next six years to 375million,
you fatties out there hang your heads in shame! what a load of b******s! the tree huggers are really getting desperate to win their case now.
advocates have, after being proven incorrect on so many counts have found a new reason - FAT PEOPLE! scientists warned that the increase in big-eaters means more food production — a major cause of CO2 gas emissions warming the planet, overweight people are also more likely to drive, adding to environmental damage,
the study by Dr Edwards and colleague Ian Roberts is published in the International Journal of Epidemiology, Dr Edwards went on: “We are not just pointing the finger at fat people, all populations are getting fatter and it has an impact on the environment, and Oxfam warned yesterday that the number of people hit by climate-related disasters will soar by more than half in the next six years to 375million,
you fatties out there hang your heads in shame! what a load of b******s! the tree huggers are really getting desperate to win their case now.
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This is more a case of The Sun printing a bunch of self-deduced sensationalism than any actual false facts from "tree huggers."
The study says that overweight people create one ton per year more CO2 than people who are not overweight. Considering that the average person (according to Discover Magazine) creates 22 tons of CO2 per year, that means that an overweight person creates about 5% more CO2.
The all-caps, bold-font "BILLION TONNES" is The Sun trying to expound upon that "1 ton" fact by multiplying it by the number of people whom the WHO says are overweight. (I'm overweight, but use much less CO2 than the average American.) It's not too fair a use of statistics by The Sun, but not the fault of the scientist who did not make that claim. Still though: There are a lot of fat people out there.
It is patently obvious that an overweight person does indeed use more energy than a thin person does. Just the prima facie evidence of increased food consumption alone proves that. I'm surprised that somebody felt a study was necessary to confirm something that obvious.
I guess that the scientist who released the study and found that fat people create 5% more CO2 on average than thin people was just making an effort to quantify it.
I'm can't imagine how to determine how much more gasoline fat people use compared to thin people, and it would be interesting to see how the scientist arrived at an actual value for that... but I certainly wouldn't argue with his conclusion to what, as I said above, is fairly obvious.
But frankly, I'm just surprised it's not a higher number than 5%.
Dear Jil, you know The Sun! but I think the 5% is a bit low, I feel a Mythbusters moment coming on, put 4 "normal" people in a car and drive it on a urban cycle,for say 3 hours stopping, starting, parking etc and then do the same with 4 overwieght but as much as say twice the original wieght people instead, I wonder what the fuel cosumption figures would be in each case? best regards, Stan and Diana.
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