STUDY: ‘Climate change’ could trigger a surge in domestic violence: Sexual assaults & physical abuse against women increase following storms – ‘Happens more often…in countries that have patriarchal gender norms’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13915869/Climate-change-trigger-surge-domestic-violence.html By Shivali Best For Mailonline Climate change could trigger a surge in domestic violence against women, a concerning new study has revealed. Researchers from University College London (UCL) analysed how extreme weather events in 156 countries were linked to rates of intimate partner violence (IPV). They found that, in the two years following a storm, landslide, or flood, there was […]
Argentina refuses to endorse ‘UN Pact for the Future’ or ‘2045 agenda’ (‘climate change, & gender equality’) at New York summit – Instead will ‘prioritize the defense of economic freedom & private property’
BUENOS AIRES HERALD: https://buenosairesherald.com/world/international-relations/argentina-refuses-to-sign-un-pact-for-the-future-at-new-york-summit Argentina declined on Sunday to endorse a key United Nations pact that aims for member countries to commit to action on issues including peace, poverty, climate change, and gender equality. Foreign Minister Diana Mondino announced that Argentina would distance itself from the 56-point Pact for the Future while speaking at the […]
Women Find A Solution To ‘Climate Change’ Anxiety
https://wmbriggs.substack.com/p/women-find-a-solution-to-climate By William M Briggs How about this breathless article title from JAMA (thanks to Stephen Shipman): “Medical Schools Are Updating Their Curricula as Climate Change Becomes Impossible to Ignore“. “Climate change” is indeed impossible to ignore. Not changes in the climate, which are easy to miss, mostly because nobody can really see them, and the […]
Washington state pressing utilities to tack on a ‘social cost of carbon’ to electricity prices – But ‘the social cost of carbon is entirely bogus’
Washington state starts pressing utilities to tack on a “social cost of carbon” to electricity prices. What you need to know: 1. The “social cost of carbon” (SCC) is entirely bogus. 100% of our society depends on fossil fuels. 2. The social benefit of carbon is huge — I… pic.twitter.com/yLC8us0Bzd — Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) September […]
CNN’s ‘ongoing series on gender inequality’ (funded by Bill Gates’ $3.6m grant) reports: ‘A warmer climate is changing gender roles’ – ‘How climate change in Himalayas is changing the role of women’ – ‘I have to ask my husband for literally everything’
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/asequals/climate-change-himalayas-yak-women-as-equals-intl-cmd/ By Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya for CNN – August 10, 2024 West Kameng, India — Dressed in a black sweatshirt and pink chugba – a traditional long gown – Tashi Lhamo, 53, cuts a striking figure. Sitting in her kitchen, smoke from the firewood billowing in her face, she tells CNN: “Now that’s all I […]
Dumbest Climate Study Ever?!: ‘The effect of temperature on language complexity’ – Claims: ‘Climate change could reduce the speech complexity & productivity of politicians’
The peer-reviewed paper is “The effect of temperature on language complexity: Evidence from seven million parliamentary speeches” by Risto Conte Keivabu and Tobias Widmann in Cell.
Here, as the wrote them, are the “highlights” of the paper:
“Heat has been associated with decreased productivity and cognitive performance
We find warmer temperatures to reduce language complexity of politicians
In Germany, we observe a larger effect of warm days on older politicians
Climate change could reduce the speech complexity and productivity of politicians”
In this article, we leverage information on parliamentary speeches to focus on one of these outcomes: language complexity (which could serve as a potential proxy for cognitive performance).
“We examine the marginal effects of gender as studies have shown that women are more detrimentally affected by cold exposure and men are more affected by heat exposure. In Figure 3, we report results of the marginal effects of temperature on the Flesch-Kincaid score adding an interaction with gender. We observe a larger effect size of hot temperatures (>24°C) for male politicians and smaller for female politicians. …
We believe that this study is an important first step in understanding the impact of environmental factors on language complexity leveraging large scale observational data on parliamentary speeches. Given the reality of climate change, the influence of extreme temperatures on language complexity, and more specifically on the quality of political discourse, raises significant concerns.
Watch: Canadian MP Laurel Collins declares: ‘I am wildly emotional’ – ‘Climate emergencies are not gender neutral…disproportionately impacts women & girls’ – ‘We need to think about the intersection of gender & the climate crisis’
Canadian MP Laurel Collins: “Climate emergencies are not gender neutral. The degradation of ecosystems disproportionately impacts women and girls, and I am wildly emotional. This is the existential crisis of our time.” “We need to think about the intersection of gender and… pic.twitter.com/PxxoNLaFWL — Wide Awake Media (@wideawake_media) May 30, 2024
Top Biden Bureaucrat Consulted With Eco-Activists To Justify Infusing Social Justice Into Wind Program
https://dailycaller.com/2024/04/29/biden-boem-environmental-activists-justice/ By NICK POPE A senior Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) official consulted climate activists about finding legal justification for the agency’s push to get developers to invest in “underserved communities,” according to communications obtained by Protect the Public’s Trust. Marissa Knodel, a senior adviser at BOEM who formerly worked for eco-advocacy group Earthjustice, sought the […]
UK Independent: ‘Climate change is hitting vulnerable Indonesian trans sex workers’ – Media claims ‘extreme weather linked to climate change’ is affecting transgender prostitutes’ ‘income’
UK Independent via Reuters – April 3, 2024: Joya Patiha, a 43-year-old Indonesian transgender woman, first started to notice that changing weather patterns in the mountain-ringed city of Bandung were affecting her income as a sex worker a decade ago. The rainy season was lasting longer across the West Java province, winds were stronger and in some particularly bad years Patiha lost up to 80% of her earnings. Trans women like Patiha are among the most affected by extreme weather linked to climate change, as well as suffering disproportionately when disasters strike. “No one is coming out during the longer rainy season,” said Patiha. “It is very hard to make money during that unpredictable weather.” …
Indonesia is particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, and trans women, who tend to face more stigma and marginalisation than trans men or other LGBTQ+ Indonesians, are also among those hardest hit by extreme weather. …
Arif Budi Darmawan, a researcher at the Bandung-based Resilience Development Initiative said: “Climate change makes the vulnerable even more vulnerable.” … The group’s coordinator Rikky, who asked that his first name only be used, said unpredictable weather also led to “illness, debt, stress, conflicts with local residents, and heightened levels of violence”.
UN Climate Advisor & Time Mag’s ‘Woman Of The Year’ declares ‘the climate crisis’ is ‘not just manmade, it’s white manmade’ – ‘A result of capitalism, years of colonialism, years of racial oppression’
UN climate advisor Ayisha Siddiqa (also Time Mag’s 2023 Woman of the Year): “The climate crisis is manmade. And it’s not just manmade, it’s white manmade. (applause) It is a result of capitalism, years of colonialism, years of racial oppression. And so if you want to get involved, the way that we save our planet is when we protect the most vulnerable communities among us. And this includes black trans women. This includes indigenous people. This is why it includes children and young people, because when we protect them, we can protect everybody else.”