Across Australia, the “wet nappy cooling effect” is no longer effective in protecting babies from dangerous overheating;
The two-year study at a major children’s hospital showed that for every five-degree rise in temperature two more children under six years old were admitted with fever to that hospital.
The University of Sydney research is the first to make a solid link between climate changes and childhood illness.
“And now global warming is becoming more apparent, it is highly likely an increasing number of young children will be turning up at hospital departments with these kinds of common illnesses,” said researcher Lawrence Lam, a paediatrics specialist.
“It really demonstrates the urgent need for a more thorough investigation into how exactly climate change will affect health in childhood.”
Dr Lam said the results, collated from The Children’s Hospital at Westmead admissions, back up beliefs that children are less able to regulate their bodies against climate change than adults.
The brain’s thermal regulation mechanism is not as well developed in children, making them more susceptible to “overheating” and at risk of developing illness, he said.
“They’re particularly at risk of extreme changes, much more than other people.”
This of course, is why mothers in Canada careless enough to expose children under 4 to sub-zero winter air always warm them slowly in the refrigerator or a cool basement before exposing them to the artificially high temperatures of homes with central heating – to keep them from bursting into goddamn flame.
Another drop kick for science through the goal posts of crazy.
Ok,ok stop feeding the trolls!
Lookout: For the record, the smarmy little ad hominem about BA degrees was mine, not Albatros’. No offense was intended to BA grads in general…just those who preach to others about things that they have no educational background in.
How much HOT AIR is produced daily by big goverment politicians like AL GORE? what kind of tommy rot is this egghead trying to prove?
Kate said- “How much did your parents pay for that education, Albatros?”
They paid nothing, it’s all my own money that’s paying for my education. One thing that’s painfully obvious, it’s far more than was paid on your education.
randall g said- “Hey Albatross, what did you do today to stop killing children in Australia?”
Along with my day to day activities that reduce my and my family’s carbon footprint, I spread the word about global warming.
bartinsky said “What a pathetic little mommys boy you must be albatros, never left the house and started a business or what causes your hatred of progress and those who create wealth. How many people do you employ, are there many that depend on you for a living, have you ever risked any CAPITAL, {scared you} on anything other than mad magazine and millie vanilli cd’s. Clowns like you can post all you want, Canada is full of little justins who have never created any wealth just like yourself. Crawl out of mommys basement and get a job there is hope, I started with nothing, am now worth 3m + so get up poopsie get mommy to zip up your parka and get at it. Get er done boy and when you have a pocket full of money you will be a lot happier person. No body works for a poor man , try not to be that man.”
Wow 3 million and never used a spell checker. No you are correct, I’ve never made 3 million and nobody works for me. My wealth only amounts to around 1.2 mill because I was too busy protecting your ass while I was in the Air Force for 25 years. But then again, wealth doesn’t mean wisdom does it.
Eeyore said- “What I find morbidly amusing is that folks like Albatros39a, who refer to us as knuckle-draggers, are most likely Bachelor of Arts grads…whereas us “knuckle-draggers” are Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Applied Science graduates (myself, Vitruvius, Yoop, etc….sorry, I can’t remember the rest of the SDA commenter’s qualifications, but there’s more).
Too funny! People who graduated having learned “basket-weaving” are calling engineers, university professors and scientists “knuckle-draggers”!”
Hey, you’re a B.Sc, that is interesting. I’m afraid you should have taken a few more arts courses because you might have been able to comprehend the English language a bit better. I said, “knuckle-walking” and not “knuckle-draggers, there’s a big difference.
Eric said- “Here’s my two cents worth. For the albatross’ sake – I have a B.Sc. Degree and I am currently working on my B. Ed. after degree in order to become a high school biology teacher. I thus have had an excuse to research global warming so that I can be informed for my future students’ sake. I will spare the details, but have come to this conclusion. Anyone that beleives that the science of APW has been settled is either misinformed or is deliberately lying in order to advance a political agenda.
btw – Something I never thought of before: Why are the ice caps on Mars shrinking? (It turns out that they are mostly water ice not dry ice.) Are humans on Mars burning fossil fuels? No. This is more evidence that it is the solar radiation that drives global (Earth and Mars) temps, not so much CO2.”
Simply fascinating Eric, a B.Sc. in what, biology? Funny thing I’ve had an excuse to study global warming too, because I’m a fourth year undergrad in; can you guess? It’s in environmental science! Oh and some thought it was an arts degree didn’t you. Sorry, wrong Eeyore, WL Mackenzie Redux, and lookout, not this time, no cigar for you.
Now about those shrinking ice caps on Mars. Are you referring to the articles published by “James M. Taylor”? The same James M. Taylor the works for The Heartland Institute? The same Heartland Institute that gets it’s funding from the Philip Morris tobacco company and fights for smokers rights? Oh yes and what was that other company they get a lot of their funding from? Oh that’s right, it’s Exxon Mobile, isn’t it?
Heartland Institute includes Walter F. Buchholtz, a lobbyist for Exxon Mobil and Thomas Walton, an executive of General Motors Corporation.
http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=41#src8
Oh yes, that link from NASA http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2003/07aug_southpole.htm
Oh that is fascinating too. You should try reading it Eric. The whole thing this time.
“So the smaller the footprint the better, right? So why not all just kill ourselves, right? Or better yet, why not all kill as many others as we can on the way out, right?
IT’S ALL INSANITY
Posted by: Jack at February 23, 2007 8:34 PM”
So the suicide/homicide jihadi bombers are merely Gaia worshippers ahead of their time!
Who would have thought?
Hey, they’ve already begun.
Cooling The Planet, One Person At A Time
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/001141.html
“Oh yes, that link from NASA http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2003/07aug_southpole.htm
Oh that is fascinating too. You should try reading it Eric. The whole thing this time.
Posted by: albatros39a at February 24, 2007 7:01 PM”
albatros39a,
Taylor wasn’t refering to *annual* changes in the polar caps, but a trend of *cumulative* changes in the polar caps, and what that might suggest. Never short stop your research, just because you think you have found the support for your position and thusly need look no further.
From NASA:
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/newsroom/20050920a.html
“And for three Mars summers in a row, deposits of frozen carbon dioxide near Mars’ south pole have shrunk from the previous year’s size, suggesting a climate change in progress.”
If the pedigrees of benefactors are to be questioned, such as you have done in the case of The Heartland Institute, I would guess the pedigrees of the benefactors supporting the various pro-AGW groups should also be examined. Want to guess where some of the pro-AGW scientists (and in this case I use the descriptive scientist with reluctance) are getting their funding.
BTW, I simply must ask: What IS that thing hanging around your neck?
An open question to albatros39a:
Since you should be up to a direct scientific question, by your own claim (“because I’m a fourth year undergrad in; can you guess? It’s in environmental science”) I have a question you might attempt to address.
I have asked this question of a number of scientists, and pseudo-scientists, who are unequivocally in support of the theory of AGW, or ACC. I always get an abrupt change of subject, or an all-of-a-sudden need for them to see someone they just spotted on the other side of the room.
So, what do YOU think. Approximately 10,000 years ago the northern part of the North American continent was covered by an ice sheet that, in places, was over two miles thick, and which had a southern edge that extended south of the Great Lakes region. It was so thick, massive and extensive that it caused the crust to *sink* in that area. The crust in the Great Lakes region is still, to this date, rebounding from that massive weight.
At that time (approx. 10,000 ya) there was very little population by man, very little burning of fossil fuels, no industrialization, and no evidence of any massive disruptions of a geological nature (i.e. Deccan or Columbia sized plateau basalt eruptions, or massive bolide collisions).
So, what changed at that time (circa 10,000 +/- years ago) that would have warmed the climate and caused the melting of such a large ice mass, and it’s retreat back to the polar region? A retreat, btw, that continues today.
You know… just askin’.
Bob, Suzuki was invited in to give a talk, not a debate, and the parents came to listen to him talk. He gave them what they came for.
Debate is one thing, but purposely feeding children false information is completely different animal.
Yoop, the answer to that question was posted here. http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/005638.html
Any climatologist or environmental scientist would have been able to answer that before you could have finished the question. I’d say that you asked the wrong “scientist”.