Will global warming cause more heart defects in babies?

It will definitely cause more brain defects in liberals. Particularly gullible adults....Show more

It is a pretty laughable example of trying to scare the public.
You notice that a nice warm day never has any benefits with these kind of studies.

Interestingly the study was by Shao Lin, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H.,
I have heard that a Shao Lin doctor can walk through walls.
Listened for, he can be ignored.
Looked for, why would you want to?
Felt, you do and you will be sued.
That attempt at humor definitely won't be understood by anyone that isn't familiar with Kwai Chang Caine...Show more

Probably result in more defects, is the short answer.

There is a well-established link between maternal exposure to heat and heart defects in babies, particularly if that exposure occurs in about the second month after conception. No one is sure exactly why, but it is probable that excessive heat interferes with the actions of certain proteins involved in foetal development.

There are about 40,000 cases of congenital heart defects in newborns in the US each year, out of 4 million babies born, or about 1%. What this study did was look at the probability of excessively hot days due to climate change in 8 US states and assess the change in risk. The conclusion is up to an additional 7000 cases over 11 years.

So, there's nothing implausible or scaremongering about it. It's just a risk assessment ... would people prefer for us to plan for an additional few hundred surgeries a year in paediatric and neonatal units or not? Or just not publish risk assessments skeptics don't like to read?...Show more

So jimbo instead of the usual rant about communist, instead has a go at a racist rant.
At its heart there is now no real doubt on the science of climate change, there is some debate on the scale of the changes we will see. There is also no real doubt that something that affects the world climate will have many may flow on effects from economic to health to conflict.
Which is why groups as diverse as the U.S. to the CDC are looking at the effects on their spheres of work.
Look in more detail past jimbo slur and you find professor Lin is not only highly qualified, he is a professor in the School of Public Health at University of Albany, New York, the paper is in a well respected peer reviewed Journal of the American Heart Association Report
and Lin is not the sole author
Other investigators included Tanya Spero, M.S.; Christopher Nolte, Ph.D.; Valerie Garcia, Ph.D.; Ziqiang Lin, Ph.D.; Paul Romitti, Ph.D.; Gary Shaw, Ph.D.; Scott Sheridan, Ph.D.; Marcia Feldkamp, Ph.D.; Alison Woomert, Ph.D.; Syni-An Hwang, Ph.D.; Sarah Fisher, M.P.H.; Marilyn Browne, Ph.D.; and Yuantao Hao, M.D., Ph.D.

And what is Watts answer to all this “stay indoors and turn up the air conditioner“ that’s great if you live in a wealthy country and can afford medical help, which many Americans can’t and certainly most in the third world also can’t. This is the sort of rubbish you get when you try to ignore the work of serious scientists in favour of the musings of radio weather presenters.
Also given Watts has been caught several times telling straight out lies about the I.D’s of his contributors and his lie about not being funded by heartland which he (eventually) had to admit to...Show more

It is a pretty laughable example of trying to scare the public.
You notice that a nice warm day never has any benefits with these kind of studies.

Interestingly the study was by Shao Lin, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H.,
I have heard that a Shao Lin doctor can walk through walls.
Listened for, he can be ignored.
Looked for, why would you want to?
Felt, you do and you will be sued.
That attempt at humor definitely won't be understood by anyone that isn't familiar with Kwai Chang Caine....Show more