Well this explains that vast, unpopulated wasteland known as “the equator”;
Doctors warn that the warmer weather expected with climate change might also produce more heart problems.
“If it really is a few degrees warmer in the next 50 years, we could definitely have more cardiovascular disease,” said Dr. Karin Schenck-Gustafsson, of the department of cardiology at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute.
On the sidelines of the European Society of Cardiology’s annual meeting in Vienna this week, some experts said that the issue deserved more attention. It’s well-known that people have more heart problems when it’s hot.
Speaking of global warming, Saskatchewan’s forecast for the month of September includes snow…
During the winter months, “there is a change in the ratio of daylight hours to dark hours, which changes the hormonal balance, and the hormones involved, such as cortisol, can lower the threshold for a cardiovascular event,” explains Stephen P. Glasser, MD, a professor of preventive medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, in Birmingham, Ala.
But that’s not all that’s going on. Cold temperatures cause arteries to tighten, restricting blood flow and reducing the oxygen supply to the heart, all of which can set the stage for a heart attack.
“In cold weather, there is more oxygen demand by the heart because it is working harder to do the work and maintain body heat,” Glasser says.
The science is settled. There’s nowhere on earth where human beings can survive.
Sorry, I should have been more clear: contrary to what posters here seem to think, this article proves nothing about the science of global warming (it says nothing about it) or scientists (the ones quoted therin are refreshingly reticient about talking about matters outside their expertise). As to media sensationalism, that has been around since the first neanderthal scratched the first saber-toothed tiger in a cave wall. If the climate is changing, for whatever reason, I would hope that our medical professionals were thinking of all possible consequences related to it and our journalists were informing us on the latest thinking on the issue.
I’m not in the least bit ‘alarmed’ by this – they’re not predicting that everyone’s going to die of coronaries at age forty if global temperatures go up.
These eco-wackos seem to think that the most teenie weenie rise in tempeture is a disaster when it has happened before without cuasing world wide catastorophy
One more for alby:
A golf tournament in Switzerland had to be delayed two hours on Thursday because of, get this on Sept. 6, FROST.
The climate is changing! The climate is changing!
Send dollars to the Goracle and ye shall be saved!
“set you free at September 7, 2007 1:17 AM”
Please learn the difference between weather and climate.
In case you haven’t heard
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=3780ea4a-4505-4498-add0-adf08627f728&k=8948