In the "you must be kidding" category comes this story: Doctors in Texas are predicting that global warming will cause more Americans to get kidney stones.

Yes, just in case they global warming industry hasn't caused you enough fear about increased hurricane activity (not happening), gigantic rises in sea levels (not happening), Antarctica losing net ice mass (not happening), or Greenland melting in some way which has never happened before (not happening), the Algore followers have decided to make you believe that global warming will cause you intense physical pain.

As someone who's had kidney stones, maybe I should be worried...but I'm not, of course, for a few reasons. One, I believe that anthropogenic global warming is a hoax. Two, it seems that the planet has been cooling for at least this decade. And three, all predictions such as more kidney stones, more heat deaths, etc, assume that humans are stupid and won't stay indoors more, hang out near air conditioning, or drink more water. I realize that liberals think humans are stupid...all humans except for them of course.

At least one mainstream media outlet, the Houston Chronicle, included a bit of skepticism in their coverage of the story. But even there, the reporter piled on the scare tactics, saying that some scientists believe we'll see an increase in malaria from climate change. (Not if the liberals retract their opposition to DDT, the banning of which has already cost tens of thousands of lives in Africa due to the do-gooder environmentalist movement which seems to care about everything except human life and its quality.)

The reliably left-leaning Scientific American reported the study uncritically except for admitting at the end that "study co-author Yair Lotan, an assistant professor of urology, acknowledges that the study is based on estimates that may change." Duh.

As opposition to the global warming industry becomes more well organized and well funded, with organizations like the Competitive Enterprise Institute putting out effective antidotes to Algore propaganda, the alarmists are acting desperate (despite the fact that they're clearly winning the war of opinion so far).

With the Bush administration caving in (on the ridiculous claim that the polar bear is threatened even though its populations have been stable for decades including through modest temperature increases) and with the likelihood of a president who has drunk the alarmist koolaid (no matter which of the two leading candidates wins) it's that much more important that people start getting some intellectual vaccination against the Big Lie of global warming.

I don't know whether predicting more kidney stones is something which will cause Americans to grimace in anticipated pain or to say, as they should, "you must be kidding".