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tamaranth ([personal profile] tamaranth) wrote2012-03-11 11:11 am
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A proposed potential role for increasing atmospheric CO2 as a promoter of weight gain and obesity (via Wiliiam Gibson's tweet)

I'd be interested to hear what people think about this: am not sufficiently educated to assess.

Edit to add one of the points that I found most interesting is the claim that the rise in obesity is not limited to humans. The referenced paper is Canaries in the coal mine: a cross-species analysis of the plurality of obesity epidemics.

(Given the sources (Nature and Proceedings of the Royal Society, I'm prepared to take the studies more seriously than I might if they were published in the tabloid press or on a conspiracy-theory blog!)