The global warming alarmists are now going after fat people. It's bad enough these climate cops are sneaking into every aspect of our daily life, but now they've put their green bullseye right on the big bellies of the dreaded meat- eating couch potato.

A study by researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine says that overweight people consume more food and fuel so they are likely to be more responsible for carbon emissions than skinny people. Apparently, the chubby sector's appetite for filet mignon increases demand for livestock and 20 percent of all greenhouse gases are due to the methane coming from cows. So, apparently as the belt size increases the polar ice cap decreases.

Whether global warming is actually happening or Al Gore invented it much like he invented the Internet, there's absolutely no need to pick on fat people. I contend that skinny people, at least the ones who work out and maintain healthy lifestyles, are just as harmful to the environment as those poor headless examples of obesity always paraded across the television screen when the subject arises.

The proof can be found at any health club. Exercise is a mechanical sport now. Treadmills, elliptical machines, stationary bikes, and stair steppers all require electricity - not only to operate them but for the television screens that come with them. Not to mention, while the jewels of the global warming elite are pumping away on these machines watching the news or some VH1 80s countdown, they're also listening to their Ipods.

If all that energy usage doesn't count for something, then maybe the massive amounts of oxygen that exercisers are sucking from the air will. There's more carbon production in an aerobics class, than in any Ryan's buffet line.

The work- out class does more laundry too. A chubby guy's only incentive to do extra wash is if his Rush's chili- cheeseburger drips on his shirt. By contrast, a morning jogger goes through at least a pair of shorts, a couple of socks, and a T- shirt before our round friend even gets out of bed. That can't be good for the environment.

The joggers also go through more pairs of shoes. A hard- core runner can wear out a pair of sneakers a month while the oversized environmental hazard's running shoes sit sparkling white in the back of some closet somewhere not harming anyone.

And finally…

The climate cops love to complain about cows and the methane gas that cows produce, yet the cops would prefer we all eat like cows. I'm not saying they want us on all fours munching on grass or hay, but it's close. If we eat like cows, then it stands to reason, we'll produce like them, too. Funny, I've never heard an environmentalist complain about the gas coming from a pride of lions.

Life is hard enough without these silly studies telling certain segments of the population to put down the extra Twinkies before another polar bear drowns. I want to be a good citizen and do my part, but at this rate, the only way thing good for the environment certainly won't be human.