The old joke repeated by those who understand how media and the left push identity politics holds that, were the world likely to end, headlines would read: “World Ends: Women and Minorities Hardest Hit!”
The negative fallout from climate change is having a devastatingly lopsided impact on women compared to men, from higher death rates during natural disasters to heavier household and care burdens.
In the 1991 cyclone disasters that killed 140,000 in Bangladesh, 90 percent of victims were reportedly women; in the 2004 Asian Tsunami, an estimated 70 to 80 percent of overall deaths were women.
And following the 2005 Hurricane Katrina in the United States, African-American women, who were the poorest population in some of the affected States in Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi, faced the greatest obstacles to survival, according to the New York-based Women’s Environment and Development Organisation (WEDO).
The 2007 Human Development Report, issued by the U.N. Development Programme, points out that women are particularly affected by climate change because they are the largest percentage – accounting for about 70 percent – of the poor population.
The mock-worthy “women hardest hit” ploy almost obscures the more disgusting attempt to tie these disasters to “fallout from climate change.”
The warm-mongers just won’t give up.
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Indications late last year suggested it might be. Now, Lindsay Graham says it is:
Three key senators are engaged in a radical behind-the-scenes overhaul of climate legislation, preparing to jettison the broad “cap-and-trade” approach that has defined the legislative debate for close to a decade.
The sharp change of direction demonstrates the extent to which the cap-and-trade strategy — allowing facilities to buy and sell pollution credits in order to meet a national limit on greenhouse gas emissions — has become political poison. In a private meeting with several environmental leaders on Wednesday, according to participants, Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), declared, “Cap-and-trade is dead.”
Climategate no doubt played a role in cap-and-trade’s diminishing prospects.
But it’s not time to cheer yet. If you thought nothing could be worse than such a terrible idea, then you are sure to be disappointed:
Graham and Sens. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) have worked for months to develop an alternative to cap-and-trade, which the House approved eight months ago. They plan to introduce legislation next month that would apply different carbon controls to individual sectors of the economy instead of setting a national target.
Just about the only thing I can imagine worse than the across-the-board cap-and-trade tax is to allow politicians to pick and choose specific industries to target. That’s a recipe for special interest favoritism and economic inefficiency if I’ve ever seen one.
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Ken Connor of the Center for a Just Society wonders where Al Gore has disappeared to:
…In the face of the embarrassing Climategate scandal and an unprecedented winter season that has for the first time ever delivered measurable snowfall to all 50 states, Al Gore’s absence from the public stage has been conspicuous. Perhaps he’s taken a page from Punxsutawney Phil’s playbook and is hibernating in hopes of a sunnier forecast come April.
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The bottom line is that intelligent, responsible people are getting tired of being made to feel guilty for every carbon credit consumed and every mile-per-gallon burned, especially when it’s becoming more and more clear that the current climate change hysteria is being fueled less by solid scientific evidence than by an extreme Green ideology that – much like Agent Smith in the Matrix movies – views humanity as a virus, a plague upon the earth that must be contained and ultimately eradicated. For the extreme enviro-ideologues, mankind’s devastating impact on the earth is a foregone conclusion; the appeal to “science” is simply a clever public relations tactic…
Read the whole article here.
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Don’t look at all that snow. TIME is here to remind us that global warming is still to blame:
But as far as winter storms go, shouldn’t climate change make it too warm for snow to fall? Eventually that is likely to happen — but probably not for a while. In the meantime, warmer air could be supercharged with moisture and, as long as the temperature remains below 32°F, it will result in blizzards rather than drenching winter rainstorms. And while the mid-Atlantic has borne the brunt of the snowfall so far this winter, areas near lakes may get hit even worse. As global temperatures have risen, the winter ice cover over the Great Lakes has shrunk, which has led to even more moisture in the atmosphere and more snow in the already hard-hit Great Lakes region, according to a 2003 study in the Journal of Climate.
Hat-tip: Planet Gore at NRO
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While most of the federal government was shut down on Monday due to the weekend’s blizzard (your humble blogger jas just got his internet service restored after 3 days, and has spent the afternoon unburying his mobile CO2 manufacturing unit), the President decided it was the perfect time to unveil his new office of doom-mongering Climate Service:
The Obama administration on Monday proposed a new agency to study and report on the changing climate.
Also known as global warming, climate change has drawn widespread concern in recent years as temperatures around the world rise, threatening to harm crops, spread disease, increase sea levels, change storm and drought patterns and cause polar melting.
Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and Jane Lubchenco, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, announced NOAA will set up the new Climate Service to operate in tandem with NOAA’s National Weather Service and National Ocean Service.
“Whether we like it or not, climate change represents a real threat,” Locke said Monday at a news conference.
Lubchenco added, “Climate change is real, it’s happening now.” She said climate information is vital to the wind power industry, coastal community planning, fishermen and fishery managers, farmers and public health officials.
This new propaganda service arrives on the scene just in time, as the AGW theory melts around us.
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Osama plays to the anti-capitalist, eco-nuts on the left:
Osama bin Laden sought to draw a wider public into his fight against the United States in a new message Friday, dropping his usual talk of religion and holy war and focusing instead on an unexpected topic: global warming.
The al-Qaida leader blamed the United States and other industrialized nations for climate change and said the only way to prevent disaster was to break the American economy, calling on the world to boycott U.S. goods and stop using the dollar.
It remains to be seen whether he will be as successful as Lenin in recruiting useful idiots.
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This is a couple months old, but it’s remarkable enough to be worth the belated mention. In a letter to the President promoting “green technology,” six liberal Senators brag about how inefficient their pet project of solar technology is. No lie.
They say that solar power “creates more jobs per megawatt of energy produced than any other form of energy.” And they consider that a good thing!
Apparently this needs reiterating. Creating jobs is not the goal of economic activity, it’s a byproduct, albeit an important one. If jobs were all that mattered, we could pay people to dig holes and fill them up again, or outlaw all machines that enhance productivity at the expense of a particular job once done by human labor. Of course, the result would be less overall productivity and a lower standard of living for all.
Hat-tip: Planet Gore on NRO
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This sort of thing would never, unfortunately, be said here.
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This New Republic article from a couple days ago caught my attention. In it, the author says that the Democrats are doomed, so they ought to go ahead and destroy America anyway, with the cap-and-trade bill being their Kamikaze vehicle of choice. Ok, he didn’t quite say it like that, but that’s what it would mean.
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Remember this the next time they say that the IPCC reports on “settled” science:
Two years ago the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a benchmark report that was claimed to incorporate the latest and most detailed research into the impact of global warming. A central claim was the world’s glaciers were melting so fast that those in the Himalayas could vanish by 2035.
In the past few days the scientists behind the warning have admitted that it was based on a news story in the New Scientist, a popular science journal, published eight years before the IPCC’s 2007 report.
It has also emerged that the New Scientist report was itself based on a short telephone interview with Syed Hasnain, a little-known Indian scientist then based at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi.
Hasnain has since admitted that the claim was “speculation” and was not supported by any formal research. If confirmed it would be one of the most serious failures yet seen in climate research. The IPCC was set up precisely to ensure that world leaders had the best possible scientific advice on climate change.
In court that’s called hearsay. Why is the UN claiming that it’s “science?”
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