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 U.N. frets:

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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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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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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This sort of thing would never, unfortunately, be said here.

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On the Google search page today you’ll see this:

The link takes you to a video made using Google Earth and narrated by the Goracle. In it, Gore’s usual global warming hysteria is highlighted with images of sea levels rising in Google Earth. The video also pushes propaganda “tours” that you can download into Google Earth. Now you can host an alarmist conference of your own, right from your home!

Despite their efforts, Copenhagen is looking so far like Nopenhagen.

Update: Talks are back on.

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Those who react with skepticism to the proclamations from the high priests of global warming are not really skeptical.  Listen up, because maybe you can learn something about yourself.  Your reaction is not based on the shoddy and misleading “science” behind so-called climate change.  You actually believe it, but are just too scared to admit it to yourself:

Norgaard: Climate change is disturbing. It’s something we don’t want to think about. So what we do in our everyday lives is create a world where it’s not there, and keep it distant.

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It’s a paradox. Awareness has increased. There’s been a lot more information available. This is much more in our face. And this is where the psychological defense mechanisms are relevant, especially when coupled with the fact that other people, as we’ve lately seen with the e-mail attacks, are systematically trying to create the sense that there’s doubt.If I don’t want to believe that climate change is true, that my lifestyle and high carbon emissions are causing devastation, then it’s convenient to say that it doesn’t.

This continues a long standing pattern from the left, where they choose not to argue on the basis of ideas, but seek to marginal opponents as either industry lackeys or mentally unfit.  NPR also tried to sell the same bilge from Norgaard.  It is simply inconceivable to them that anyway could honestly weigh the facts and reach a different conclusion.

It’s pathetic and debasing to intellectualism that these people pretend to be thoughtful participants in the realm of ideas.  They are nothing more than quacks.

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Video edition:

That was played at the opening ceremonies of the meeting of Hopenhagen.

They have no shame.

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Not from the dreaded H1N1, anyway.  It turns out that it’s no more deadly than regular flu.  All the hysteria was unwarranted:

With the second wave of H1N1 infections having crested in the United States, leading epidemiologists are predicting that the pandemic could end up ranking as the mildest since modern medicine began documenting influenza outbreaks.

Experts warn that the flu is notoriously unpredictable, but several recent analyses, including one released late Monday, indicate that the death toll is likely to be far lower than the number of fatalities caused by past pandemics.

The so-called authorities seem to have a penchant for over-hyping dangers.  Hmm, I wonder what other issue areas exist in which that knowledge might come in handy.

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Just in case you didn’t think I was serious about the propaganda push leading up to Copenhagen, we now get a new level of hysterics even for the chicken little crowd:

Professor Kevin Anderson, director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change, believes only around 10 per cent of the planet’s population – around half a billion people – will survive if global temperatures rise by 4C.

Anderson’s warning comes just eight days before global leaders meet in Copenhagen for the most crucial talks on climate change reversal since the Rio summit in 1992. Current Met Office projections reveal that the lack of action in the intervening 17 years – in which emissions of climate changing gases such as carbon dioxide have soared – has set the world on a path towards potential 4C rises as early as 2060, and 6C rises by the end of the century.

Anderson, who advises the government on climate change, said the consequences were “terrifying”.

“For humanity it’s a matter of life or death,” he said. “We will not make all human beings extinct as a few people with the right sort of resources may put themselves in the right parts of the world and survive.

When I began the “we’re all gonna die!” series, it was at least somewhat of an exaggeration.  Now it’s just a plain ol’ factual description of what they alarmists are saying day in, day out.

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We’re all gonna die a little bit inside once the women turn to prostitution:

The effects of climate change have driven women in communities in coastal areas in poor countries like the Philippines into dangerous work, and sometimes even the flesh trade, a United Nations official said.

Suneeta Mukherjee, country representative of the United Nations Food Population Fund (UNFPA), said women in the Philippines are the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change in the country.

“Climate change could reduce income from farming and fishing, possibly driving some women into sex work and thereby increase HIV infection,” Mukherjee said during the Wednesday launch of the UNFPA annual State of World Population Report in Pasay City.

Then we’ll all die from AIDS.

Hat-tip: Stop The ACLU

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