Old age offers no protection from obesity's death grip

Feb. 5, 2013 ? Obesity kills, giving rise to a host of fatal diseases. This much is well known. But when it comes to seniors, a slew of prominent research has reported an "obesity paradox" that says, at age 65 and older, having an elevated BMI won't shorten your lifespan, and may even extend it. A new study takes another look at the numbers, finding the earlier research flawed. The paradox was a mirage: As obese Americans grow older, in fact, their risk of death climbs.

Ryan Masters, PhD, and Bruce Link, PhD, at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, in collaboration with Daniel Powers, PhD, at the University of Texas published the results online in the American Journal of Epidemiology.

The researchers argue that past studies of longevity and obesity were biased due to limitations of the National Health Interview Survey, or NHIS, which provides information on obesity. The survey excludes individuals who are institutionalized, such as in a hospital or nursing home -- a group largely made up of seniors. Consequently, the data is overrepresented by older respondents who are healthy, including the relatively healthy obese. What's more, many obese individuals fail to make it to age 65 -- and thus do not live long enough to participate in studies of older populations.

"Obesity wreaks so much havoc on one's long-term survival capacity that obese adults either don't live long enough to be included in the survey or they are institutionalized and therefore also excluded. In that sense, the survey data doesn't capture the population we're most interested in," says Dr. Masters, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar at Columbia's Mailman School and the study's first author.

In his analysis Dr. Masters matched NHIS data on obesity with corresponding records in the National Death Index using data from close to 800,000 adults surveyed between 1986 and 2004. Next he performed statistical adjustments to account for the survey selection biases. The result: risk for death from obesity increases with age.

The finding jibes with countless medical studies that document how obesity takes a cumulative, even compounding toll on the human body. (Exponents of the obesity paradox have explained their counterintuitive results by suggesting that obesity's extra padding protects seniors from fall-related injuries and provides energy reserves during illness.)

"This study should put to rest the notion that it's possible to 'age out' of obesity risk, and provides a powerful counterfactual against those who say concern over obesity is overhyped," says Dr. Link, a professor of Epidemiology and Sociomedical Sciences at the Mailman School.

Going forward, Dr. Masters has set his sites on another possible reason behind the obesity paradox -- that some of the older obese captured in NHIS data only put on extra weight later in life.

"The recent obesity epidemic hit all age groups at the same time, meaning many of the elderly obese only gained their excess weight in the last 10 years or so," Dr. Masters says. "To account for this fact, I will take a page from studies of cigarette smokers by looking at 'life years' to measure how long someone has been obese rather than whether or not they happen to be obese at the time of a single snapshot survey."

Funding was provided by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars Program.

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1. R. K. Masters, D. A. Powers, B. G. Link. Obesity and US Mortality Risk Over the Adult Life Course. American Journal of Epidemiology, 2013; DOI: 10.1093/aje/kws325

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CCS for gas - results of Element Energy study
Feature Articles, Feb? 03? 2013 (Carbon Capture Journal)

- How much CCS can be practically deployed in the gas power sector and when? Recent modelling by Element Energy shows that the current trajectory of CCS activity in Europe will not deliver 10s of GW of gas CCS capacity. The study quantifies the most efficient policies by EU Member States and industry across the CCS chain required to deliver higher levels of gas CCS readiness. By Harsh Pershad, Element Energy.

The question of how much CCS can be deployed in the gas sector is becoming increasingly relevant in Europe, where scenario modelling points to an economic demand for tens of GW gas power with CCS in the 2030s delivering 100s of TWh of low carbon electricity. with demand ramping up steeply in the 2030s.

However the ?practical? potential for gas CCS could be constrained by lack of CCS readiness across the fleet. Meaningful CCS readiness demands the availability by 2030 of suitable sites for capture and ?bankable? options for CO2 transport and storage. It is clear that choices made today will have significant impacts on the CCS opportunities for the 2030s.

The European Commission recently published an Energy Roadmap to achieve deep CO2 cuts by 2050. The roadmap identifies a substantial ramp up in the capacity for gas CCS by the 2030s. However there are multiple hurdles to CCS deployment. An inability for a gas power station to deploy CCS where this is economically viable creates two important risks:

? ?carbon lock-in?, where the plant continues to operate, which makes overall decarbonisation of the economy more difficult and more expensive to achieve; and

? ?stranded assets?, where operating unabated plant is uneconomic, so that run hours are highly curtailed and society as a whole suffers from inefficient investment choices.

In December 2011, the European Climate Foundation commissioned Element Energy and Green Alliance to analyse the ?practical? potential for CCS in European gas power sector in 2030, exploring at high level policies that could improve the take-up of gas CCS in the EU. For the purpose of the study, the practical potential is defined as the capacity (in GW) of the CCGT fleet that combine capture readiness with high feasibility of CO2 transport to one or more storage locations with sufficient available capacity.

The demand for gas power capacity is predicted to be 180-310 GW in 2030, with higher levels associated with decarbonisation scenarios involving high renewable electricity generation. This must be met through a combination of new build plant and, assuming typical plant lifetimes of 20 years, repowering of the existing fleet.

The CCS Directive requires, as part of consenting, that all new CCGT above 300 MW plant assess the feasibility of capture, transport and storage. Repowering provides an additional opportunity to make plants capture ready, but there is currently no legal requirement for this. There is a large gulf between the conditions that define minimal and meaningful CCS readiness. Sites which are meaningfully ?CCS ready? must be able to implement CO2 capture, CO2 transport and CO2 storage. This implies that:

? Site selection is consistent with FEED-quality level information on the design requirements for capture, transport and storage facilities.

? Rights-of-way, Environmental, Safety and other approvals have been obtained (and are consistent with the required capture technology and any temporary storage requirements).

? Sufficient capacity for permanent CO2 storage exists, recognizing the potential competition for capacity from other sources and the inherent uncertainties associated with the subsurface.

? There is sufficient political and public support for CCS implementation.

The challenges of capture, storage and transport

Experience with flue gas desulfurization (FGD) requirements on coal power stations has shown the challenges of retrofitting clean-up technologies to plants that were not designed with this in mind. The experience suggests a plausible scenario where capture readiness is not meaningfully implemented early in the 2010s, and it becomes correspondingly more difficult to retrofit capture equipment on these plants when economics or regulations support deployment.

Current implementation of the requirements of the Directive by Member States appears very weak. During the 2010s, the timing and extent of implementation will likely remain vulnerable to the prevailing political pressure towards (or against) CCS deployment by industry and individual Member States.

Estimates for the theoretical CO2 storage capacity in Europe span a wide range (e.g. 100-300 Gt), but the ?Bankable? capacity likely to be available in 2030 is likely to be orders-of-magnitude lower. Storage capacity is distributed unevenly across Europe in thousands of sites. Each of these will require data, time, and resource-intensive analysis to understand their capacity, containment, injectivity, cost, degree of appraisal work required, ease of monitoring, and conflict with other land users (Fig.1)

A significant (but currently unknown) fraction of the sites are unlikely to prove viable upon close analysis. The EU and/its Member States will need to be more pro-active in establishing condition that ensure high levels of confidence in CO2 storage site performance in time to underpin CCS investments.

Recent studies have emphasized the potential need for large CO2 transport networks in 2030 to meet high CCS demand scenarios. Indeed some scenarios envisage CO2 transport tonnages greater than the existing natural gas and oil transport capacity in Europe, which took several decades to build up and which benefitted from high confidence in reservoir properties, infrastructure standards, political support, robust demand, and compelling economics.

But even with strong market drivers, extensive or cross-border pipeline infrastructure can take more than a decade from concept to commissioning, implying that the foundations for widespread use of the infrastructure in 2030 must be in place before 2020. In addition, CO2 transport onshore may be heavily limited by the availability of corridors for pipelines and conflicts of land use.

To quantify the practical potential for CCS on gas power plant under a wide range of scenarios, Element Energy developed a model which considered:

1) The overall CCGT fleet capacity and country distribution between now and 2030

2) Member State social and political enthusiasm for CCS, and the subsequent timetable for regulators to enforce a meaningful set of equirements for CCS readiness.

3) Levels of bankable storage capacity, onshore and offshore, including competition for capacity including reserved storage for coal or industrial CCS, and levels of storage redundancy.

4) The ability to connect CCGT fleet with storage locations, either directly or by sharing CO2 transport infrastructure with coal or industrial CCS projects.

The results of modelling individual CCGT sites in Europe across six scenarios covering high and low levels of gas power demand with ?CCS Push?, ?CCS Pragmatic? and ?CCS Go Slow? levels of policy intervention are shown in Figure 2.

The green bars indicate the how much (in GW) of the European gas power fleet has a high level of CCS readiness in 2030, i.e. capture, transport and storage all appear plausible. The range of practical potential spans 100 GW. It is clear that even in the ?CCS Push? scenario, much of the fleet existing in 2030 is unlikely to be CCS ready.

How to increase the CCS readiness of the gas fleet?

Figure 3 illustrates how policy interventions could serve to increase the practical potential for gas CCS.

Importantly considerable efficiencies can be obtained by treating capture, transport and storage as a whole ? as policies to target these individually may be inefficient as impacts are not simply additive. A one-size-fits-all approach to encouraging gas CCS in Europe may be politically challenging to implement, especially in advance of successful CCS demonstration.

The analysis shows that an efficient alternative could be policy development focused on a few lead countries with the most significant CCGT capacities and/or storage capacities. The table below illustrates the relative importance of selected issues for the countries with the largest predicted CCGT capacities in Europe, namely UK, Spain, Germany, Italy and France.

Conclusions

The modelling shows that the deployment of CCS on gas cannot be assumed to be straightforward. Scenarios indicate it would be practical for gas CCS to play an important and growing role in the supply of low carbon electricity in 2030 and beyond, particularly in Spain, the UK, Germany, France and Italy ? the countries with the largest predicted CCGT capacity. These positive outcomes are however dependent on policy action to avoid the following barriers to CCS deployment:

? late or weak application of capture readiness requirements,

? low levels of ?bankable? storage capacity,

? restrictions on onshore storage,

the absence of CO2 integrated transport networks with coal or industrial sources, and

? the absence of strong cross-border agreements.

Stakeholders who wish to ensure widespread practical potential for gas CCS in the period to 2030 and beyond must therefore consider the following interventions as a matter of urgency:

? early enforcement of capture readiness (possibly informed through a real CCS demonstration project)

? extensive storage characterization

? engaging with public concerns over the potential safety of onshore CO2 storage

? developing integrated CO2 transport networks, and facilitating cross-border CCS

Policies specifically aimed at encouraging the development of increased levels of practical potential for gas CCS could be initially targeted at a limited number of countries for maximum efficiency, but must be holistic, i.e. covering capture, transport and storage readiness, rather than treating these independently which appears to be the case at present. As the technology and CCS capacity requirements for the gas power sector become better understood, policymakers, investors and regulators could demand wider geographic coverage and increasingly meaningful levels of readiness in capture, transport and storage to avoid the threats of lock-in or stranded assets in the 2030s and 2040s.

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White House expects Senate confirmation of Hagel

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The White House on Friday dismissed criticism of Chuck Hagel's hesitant congressional testimony and insisted that it expects the Senate to confirm him as defense secretary.

One day after Hagel was roughed up in a grueling confirmation hearing, White House spokesman Jay Carney said Hagel did a "fine job" and the Obama administration would be stunned if Republicans tried to block the nomination of a decorated Vietnam combat veteran and former two-term GOP senator.

"The president believes Sen. Hagel will make an excellent secretary of defense and that he will be confirmed and he looks forward to working with Sen. Hagel in that position as we continue to advance our national security priorities," Carney told reporters.

If confirmed, Hagel, 66, would be the lone Republican in Obama's Cabinet, the first Vietnam veteran to be defense secretary and the first enlisted man to take the post.

Hagel seemed ill-prepared under withering cross-examination from Senate Armed Services Committee Republicans in nearly eight hours of testimony. He was repeatedly pressed about past statements and votes on Israel, Iran and nuclear weapons.

Senate Democrats, who hold the majority, continue to stand behind the nomination, and no Democrat has said he or she would vote against the president's pick for his second-term national security team.

But Republican opposition grew on Friday as Sen. Roy Blunt, a member of the committee, announced that he would vote against Hagel. About a dozen Republicans have said they will oppose their former colleague and several others have indicated that they are likely to vote no.

"Senator Hagel's answers before the committee were simply too inconsistent, particularly as they related to Iran and Israel," said the Missouri lawmaker. "The idea that we can contain a nuclear Iran and his view that we should not have unilateral sanctions are just wrong and are too dangerous for us to try."

In fact, Hagel corrected his statement about containment of Iran and said all options, including military action, should be on the table to stop Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.

While Blunt announced his opposition, he signaled he would not support any effort to block the nomination. Blunt is a member of the GOP leadership team, and his reluctance to wage a filibuster fight is a positive sign for Hagel amid the threat of efforts to block the nomination.

Democrats hold a 14-12 edge on the committee, which could vote as early as Thursday, and a 55-45 advantage in the full Senate. Democrats would need five Republican votes to stop a filibuster, and GOP lawmakers often have spoken about the right of a president to get an up-or-down vote on his nominee.

Carney did not mention Republican Sen. John McCain by name, but he clearly was referring to him when he questioned the "badgering ... over issues like, 'why did you disagree with me over Iraq?' "

"Now somewhat bizarrely, given that we have 66,000 Americans in uniform in Afghanistan, senators yesterday in the hearing for the nomination of a secretary of defense asked very few questions about that active war," Carney said. "Instead they wanted to re-litigate the past. That argument will continue, no doubt."

The nominee's fiercest exchange came with McCain, a fellow Vietnam veteran and onetime close friend over Iraq.

The Arizona Republican pressed Hagel on whether he was right or wrong about his opposition to President George W. Bush's decision to send an extra 30,000 troops to Iraq in 2007 at a point when the war seemed in danger of being lost. Hagel, who voted to authorize military force in Iraq, later opposed the conflict, comparing it to Vietnam and arguing that it shifted the focus from Afghanistan.

"Were you right? Were you correct in your assessment?" McCain asked.

"I would defer to the judgment of history to sort that out," Hagel said as the two men talked over each other.

"The committee deserves your judgment as to whether you were right or wrong about the surge," McCain insisted.

Unable to elicit a simple response, McCain said the record should show that Hagel refused to answer. And he made it clear that he would have the final word ? with his vote, which he said would be influenced by Hagel's refusal to answer yes or no.

"I think history has already made a judgment about the surge, sir, and you're on the wrong side of it," McCain told Hagel.

Responding to criticism from outside GOP-leaning groups, Hagel repeated his regrets about using the term "Jewish lobby" to refer to pro-Israel groups. He said he should have used another term and should not have said those groups have intimidated members of the Senate into favoring actions contrary to U.S. interests.

"I'm sorry and I regret it," Hagel said. "On the use of 'intimidation,' I should have used 'influence,' I think would have been more appropriate."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/white-house-expects-senate-confirmation-hagel-173143416--politics.html

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Warp is looking for a new person to assist our digital team in promoting our artists from our London office.

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