Monday, July 14, 2008

Enjoy your kidneys now, because by 2050, trace amounts of CO2 will cause the dreaded "kidney stone belt" to engulf another 16% of us

Climate Change Means More Kidney Stones | Wired Science from Wired.com
Urologists refer to those states as the "kidney stone belt," and some 40 percent of the U.S. population now resides within it. But under the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's mid-range estimates, the belt will expand north and up the coasts, enveloping 56% of the population by 2050.

1 comment:

April E. Coggins said...

I just heard CBS Radio news report that global warming is going to lead to a shortage of urologists. I thought I could detect a trace of a snicker from the announcer but the guy they interviewed made it sound very ominous.