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— Marc Morano (@ClimateDepot) July 9, 2023
Now scientists say climate change is making us BLIND
- University of Toronto researchers looked at 1.7million adults over 65 years old
- Those in warmer areas were up to 44 percent more likely to have vision problems
Climate change may be speeding up the rate of blindness, a study suggests.
Canadian researchers compared rates of vision problems among 1.7million people across all 50 states in the US.
They found those who lived in warmer regions were up to nearly 50 percent more likely to suffer serious vision impairment compared to those in cooler places.
Exposure to stronger ultraviolet light damages the cornea, lens and retina and also risks irritation and infection.
The experts said the findings were ‘very worrying’ in the context of global warming, which has seen global average temperatures rise by two fahrenheit (1.1 Celsius) since the late 1800s.
Study co-author Esme Fuller-Thomson, a gerontologist at the University of Toronto, said: ‘With climate change, we are expecting a rise in global temperatures. It will be important to monitor if the prevalence of vision impairment among older adults increases in the future.’
Dr Thomson, who is also the director of the University of Toronto’s Institute of Life Course Aging, added: ‘This link between vision impairment and average county temperature is very worrying, if future research determines that the association is causal.’
The study, published in the journal Ophthalmic Epidemiology, looked at people aged 65 years and up between 2012 and 2017.
Compared to people living in states with an average temperature below 50F like New York and Maine, those in states with temperatures above 60F — Florida, Texas and Georgia — faced the highest risk.
Those who lived in areas with an average annual temperature of 55 to 59.99F — such as Virginia, Kentucky and California — were 24 percent more likely to have vision problems.
People in states with an average temperature of 50 to 54.99F were 14 percent more likely to struggle.
Scientists warned that the study was observational, meaning it could not prove that warmer temperatures were leading to vision problems. They said further research was needed.
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‘The lunatics are winning’: Statistician ridicules new study claiming global warming causes blindness – ‘Climate The Science Causes Blindness’
Briggs: “Therefore, The Science says, everybody in Singapore is blind. Indeed, anybody who lives within, oh, plus or minus 200 miles of the equator must be blind. The heat will have, in effect, gouged out their eyes. It’s so bad, the heat, that I went to visit my parents in Florida and had to use a cane for a week after.”
“I believe this new The Science explains women’s behavior. Hear me out. We all know women enjoy signaling their attractiveness to men. In winter, they can do this fully clothed, even overdressed. Because men’s vision in the cold must be nearly perfect. Come summer, women are forced to strip down, even to almost nothing at the beach, where it is typically hottest. This is the only way men, whose vision has been degraded by the hot sun, can still see them. It’s Science!”
“The lunatics are winning. They are many, and we are few. They can push out a dozen of these papers a day, almost all funded by the Regime, whereas we can only look at maybe one a week, the looking funded by you, dear reader. Even if we can create doubt in a small handful of these papers, the very weight of the remaining publications serves as sufficient evidence, to most, that “climate change” is always bad, and never good.”
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Flashback 2017: Celebrity Hurricane Telethon Goes Full Climate Astrology: Stevie Wonder: ‘Anyone who believes that there’s no such thing as global warming must be blind or unintelligent’ – Singer Stevie Wonder kicked off Tuesday’s star-studded Hand In Hand telethon to raise money for hurricane recovery by getting political. Wonder started the show by saying, “Anyone who believes that there’s no such thing as global warming must be blind or unintelligent.”
Flashback 2012: Warmists come up with a new one! Global warming causes childhood blindness!? – Study ‘links higher temps to birth defects, finds a 5-degree rise at key periods during pregnancy increases a baby’s risk of congenital cataracts significantly’ Wacky World of ‘settled science’?: Actual exposure to hot temps while pregnant *doesn’t* cause birth defects, but being pregnant when it’s warm outside at night *does* cause birth defects?
Pilots Complain of ‘Nearly Blinding’ Solar Panel Glare in California – ‘Interferes with their ability to scan for other planes in the air space’ – ‘Pilots have complained that the glare from mirrors at the Ivanpah solar farm is “nearly blinding” and interferes with their ability to scan for other planes in the air space. The mirrors, covering more than 5 square miles, focus the sun’s energy on boilers like this one at the top of three 459-foot-tall towers.’
