Global Warming is Shrinking Our Kids

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Can we just declare Warmism a mental illness filled with paranoid ideation and get it over with?

The weather pattern known as El Niño could be stunting kids’ growth—even years after the extreme storms abate, a new study finds. Researchers at Johns Hopkins’ Bloomberg School of Public Health, led by assistant professor of medicine and international health William Checkley, say they have conducted the first study on the long-term health consequences of El Niño weather systems. According to the paper published today in BioMed Central, children born around the time of the severe 1997-’98 El Niño living in coastal Peru, one of the regions hardest hit by the weather pattern, are significantly shorter for their age than children born before El Niño hit.

The team measured the height, weight, and fat, and muscle of a random sample of 2,095 children born between 1991 and 2001 in Tumbes, Peru—a city on the northwestern coast. A decade after the extreme ’97 El Niño, in November and December of 2008 and 2009, they found that, on average, the children born during and shortly after El Niño were shorter and had less lean mass, or body weight minus fat, than children born before the event.

So they measured children in a single city in Peru and Mother Jones, the magazine for lefties who think Salon is for Republicans, decided that El Nino was caused by Global Warming and that the Great Flying Global Warming Monster is causing kids to shrink.

During times of crisis or deprivation, children will get less nutrition and likely be smaller and shorter. This has nothing to do with Global Warming. I suspect some American children growing up poorer in the Obama economy are also shorter than they would have been in a more prosperous America,

Does that mean Obama is shrinking our kids?

  • Contemptuous Maximus

    I suspect that El Nino and global warming have shrunk the brains of liberals to the dimensions of sub atomic particles. Not much of a loss anyway, certainly no decrease in body weight.

    • objectivefactsmatter

      ‘It’s science. bro.’

  • Kev789
    • objectivefactsmatter

      Science is cool. Fear mongering is not:

      Here is some of the black comedy:

      http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/11/short-stature-el-nino

      “El Niño weather patterns occur in the equatorial Pacific region, often off the northern coasts of Peru and Ecuador. During El Niño patterns, the region’s warm water, which is usually skimmed away by the wind and pushed towards Asia and Australia, doesn’t circulate like it’s meant to. Instead, it builds up and heats the air above it, creating clouds. The changes in water temperatures and cloud formations lead to higher chances of torrential rains, inhospitably warm fish habitats, and intense flooding in the Americas. This tends to happen every three to seven years, and begins slowly in the summer, peaking in the winter.”

      So these science deniers don’t accept evolutionary theory?

    • Daniel_Greenfield

      That’s the Mother Jones interpretation of it, as you can see in Objective’s comment

      • Kev789

        Daniel, you write: “…decided that El Nino was caused by Global Warming…” But unless I missed something, Mother J makes no such claim.

        MJ does refer to the possibility of “…more and more intense El Niño cycles” – maybe that’s what you were referring to – but not the same as possibly “…caused by.”

  • dwayne roberson

    Come on now, this is No laughing matter! PCLD is an epidemic. Psychotic Chicken Little Disorder is rampant, and Global Warming has frightened the excrement out of several generations of state indoctrinated students. We can all help with their collective recovery this winter. Remind everyone on a daily basis, Bundle Up! Climate Change is the Global Warming mulligan…deny them to spin a contradiction. We are in a cooling trend, not caused by warming. Every cold day is an opportunity to expose and share the buffoonery of Global Warming and it’s agendists. Evangelize with frequency!

  • objectivefactsmatter

    Maybe stupidity causes climate change? Forget about carbon. Get rid of the idiots. We’ll just compare temperatures before and after our benign intervention and then we’ll know with great confidence.

  • Libslayer

    The only thing global warming is guaranteed to shrink is our wallets.

  • Well Done

    I’m beginning to wonder just what it is that keeps the “man did it” crowd so convinced they are correct. They continue to assert that the Earth is warming, climate is doing things it hasn’t done in “millions of years”, and man’s CO2 is THE reason. NO legit science supports any of these assertions. If the data supported the “man did it” story, the hockey stick expert, Michael Mann, would show us his work. He refuses to do so. End of story.

    • dwayne roberson

      Mann made global warming.(hockey shtick)

  • Dave M.

    I find the name “Mother Jones” offensive, especially on behalf of people who do not have a mother. In addition, “mother” is not a gender neutral word and I am sure it has triggered more than a few gender evolved humyns to feel a sense of otherness thereby disenfranchising them from helping to solve this crisis. How are we to have a robust, holistic discussion on the fate of the world if this important magazine continues to alienate 0.000666% of humynity? I for one will not stand for it and will henceforth spread awareness.