Health News 9

Is our world under threat?

IN THIS ISSUE:

• Global Warming?
• Natural Medicines
• Vitamin B2

Global Warming?

At first, the subject of 'global warming' doesn't seem to have much in common with health. However, upon further examination, if 'global warming' proves to be factually happening, then this event could end up having serious and even dire consequences for our health. It's therefore important to examine the subject of 'global warming' more seriously.

There has been so much said about it and the subject of global warming seems to pop up almost daily in news, where it's usually asserted as factual ongoing event. Perhaps one should look also at the opposing side of the argument, which unfortunately these days gets little or no media space.

The debate about global warming and the human activity that's supposed to be causing it, has been raging for many years now. Owing to unexpectedly higher temperatures than usual for this time of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, the debate has peaked yet again, with all kinds of doomsday scenarios being flaunted.

The former US vice president Al Gore has even made documentary about it - An Inconvenient Truth. But how much truth is there to the whole concept of global warming?

What We Now Know newsletter – go to this web page for more info www.caseyresearch.com/publications.php - has just published an overview of the facts about global warming, which paints a rather interesting picture.

Here are some interesting highlights:

1. Gore's film uses the so called "hockey stick" graph, created by Dr Michael Mann in 1999, which purports that earth's temperatures have been rising during the 20th century, thereby resulting in graph's end looking like the playing end of the hockey stick - _______/.

2. The "hockey stick" graph however ignores large temperature fluctuations that happened during the 2nd millennium. Starting around the turn of the 1st millennium, there was a warm period lasting for about 250 years, which enabled Vikings at the time to establish farming in Greenland. This period is referred to as the Medieval Warm Period.

3. A couple of centuries later, starting at the beginning of 15th and through to the 18th century, there was a period of low temperatures, sometimes referred to as the Little Ice Age. The "hockey stick" simply ignores these two 'inconvenient' periods for Dr Mann's theory. The Little Ice Age put the end to Greenland farming.

4. While the temperatures were steadily rising in the 1990s, the graph suddenly goes flat again since 1998. If there was a global warming happening, wouldn't the temperatures keep on rising after 1998?

5. Most of the temperature fluctuations and most of the temperatures measuring has been going on in the Northern Hemisphere. What about the Southern Hemisphere? Why the temperatures haven't been fluctuating as much there, if this is supposed to be 'global warming'? In fact, according to Australian temperature measures, 2006 was only the 11th warmest year ever.

6. Back in the 1980s, when this whole global warming theory started taking roots, we were being told that by the 1990s, the sea levels would rise by at least half a meter, as the ice melts on
Arctic and on Antarctica. Some even predicted that we'll be farming Sahara (hmm, is this necessary a bad thing?!) and the coastal cities, like for example Sydney, would become new Venices. Well, the Nineties came and went by, with none of this happening.

7. The proponents of the global warming theory often cite 'computer models' as one of the "proofs" that the current temperature fluctuations will result in global warming and greenhouse effect. In fact, the original global warming theory was started by doing long term projections using computer models. Thus, computer models are often cited as if they offer some profound, higher, Nostradamus-like knowledge. In reality, computers are just fancy calculators, which can also write. Any models and projections they do are only as good as the data inputted. If that data is half correct or sometime plain wrong, then the resulting computer model will be even more so.

8. What about the huge chunks of ice breaking off from Antarctica and floating away, which got featured on the news and in Al Gore's film? According to Dr. Boris Winterhalter, a professor of marine
geology at the University of Helsinki, this is a natural phenomenon which happens when the ice glaciers are growing! As the glaciers grow, chunks of ice tend to break up and some of them float away naturally enough - the inner glacier grows in size, a bit like a balloon, forcing the outer ice envelope to break, causing chunks of ice to fall off.

9. The Arctic temperatures, which is in the Northern Hemisphere, have been fluctuating. The temperatures were higher in the 1930s, cooling significantly down in 1960s. They again warmed up in the 1980s and cooled down by mid 1990s. After raising again in mid 1990s, Arctic lost about 30% of its ice thickness by 1998. But since then, the ice thickness has rebuilt itself and is back again to the previous levels. These temperature fluctuations seem to go in line with the overall temperature fluctuations being higher in the Northern Hemisphere - see point 5, above.

10. Perhaps the only fact that this whole global warming scare gets "right" is that the sea levels have been rising. The only thing is that unfortunately this fact is used and presented in wrong context. The sea levels have been rising steadily for the past 18,000 years - since the last Ice Age! Naturally enough, as the temperatures steadily increased after the Ice Age and ice kept retreating back to polar caps, the sea levels kept rising from the melting ice water. That's how we ended up with European and North American agriculture and farming, which now feed most of the world. Our real concern should be the coming of the next Ice Age, which apparently is due for a couple of thousand years, as they seem to have happened every 20,000 or so years throughout Earth's history. How will the humanity feed itself then?

Overall, there's no doubt that there are temperature fluctuations happening, which sometimes tend to manifest themselves more than usual. It's during these 'extremes' that unfortunately human imagination, happily helped along with scare-prone media, opportunistic politicians and self-appointed elitists with their own agendas, tend to run wild with speculations and all kinds of 'end of the world' scenarios. Throw in the mix the governments' hunger and affinity to control people by extracting more and more money from them under various excuses and guises, and you have the formula for a disaster. Whenever authorities meddle into something, they
turn it into a mess.

I guess the real scary part now is what will happen if and when the world governments decide to 'take control of the global warming'. Now, that's one scary scenario.

Natural Medicines

According to a recent New Zealand study, ‘Natural medicines are the safest way to avoid death’.

The article under the same name was published in October 2006, based on results of the study by Dr Wallace Bain, the Acting Chair of the Coroner’s Council. The study was conducted in response to New Zealand health legislation, which threatens to bring New Zealand health laws under the control of Australian health laws. These Australian health laws have done a lot of harm to natural health industry in Australia.

The New Zealand study reveals that no deaths have ever been associated in New Zealand with natural therapies and intake of vitamins, minerals and herbal remedies.

On the other hand, more than 1,500 deaths in New Zealand have been attributed to adverse reactions to drugs. Further 4,200 deaths were attributed to mistakes by doctors and medical staff.

Yet, the supporters of the new health legislation in NZ were claiming that these are needed for ‘stricter regulation of natural products for public safety’.

It seems however, that such ‘public safety laws’, bring deaths – as those attributed to drugs. Whereas, the natural medicine industry void of such laws, has no such deaths’ record.

Vitamin B2

Riboflavin or Vitamin B2 is another one of eight water-soluble B vitamins. Being water-soluble means that body doesn’t store these vitamins and any excess of such vitamins is passed by the body. It also means that deficiencies in such vitamins are more common.

Vitamin B2 is one of the vitamins essential for the body growth and reproduction. This vitamin assists with the production of antibodies and formation of red blood cells, which are the carriers of oxygen to the cells. As such, vitamin b2 is essential for cell growth and helps with the absorption of iron.

Vitamin b2, sometime known as vitamin G, is particularly needed for the eyes. Lack of vitamin b2 will cause eye disorders, such as itchy eyes, watery eyes, and light-sensitive eyes. Vitamin B2 is particularly useful in the treatment of some eye cataracts.

Good food sources of vitamin b2 are lean meat, milk, cheese, legumes, and green leafy vegetables. Breakfast cereals and breads are enriched with vitamin b2, as is baby food and milk products. Read more on Vitamin B2.

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