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Page 23, chapter four of the Stern Report:
Gender inequalities will likely worsen with climate change.
UPDATE. Climate change will also cause forced marriage.
(Via Joe Cambria)
- Link to articlePosted by Tim B. on 2006 10 31 at 09:08 PM • permalink
- World Ends – Women, Minorities Hardest Hit.
Etc etc
Posted by John Fembup on 2006 10 31 at 09:12 PM • permalink
- I forsee a Department of Climate Change.
There will be training, seminars, conferences, meetings. Lots of meetings.
Posted by SingleMalt on 2006 10 31 at 09:17 PM • permalink
- #4, there already is: Australian Greenhouse Office
They’ve been given so much money from the government that they’re flat out spending it by attending seminars and conferences all around the world and they’ve still got plenty left over.
While we’re on the Stern report, I’m hoping to see some serious rebuttals soon. The report relies on some numbers from the IPCC that have already been comprehensively debunked.
Don’t heed stern warning
When Stern was chief economist at the World Bank he got into an argument with the formidable former commonwealth statistician, Ian Castles, over the inappropriate use of statistics in the bank’s development report (on emissions, as it happens), an argument Castles seems to have won.From a quick look on the web today, Castles and others really got stuck into earlier drafts of the Stern report and their criticisms don’t appear to have been refutted or accommodated.
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2006 10 31 at 09:32 PM • permalink
- Every time I think the globalwarmacoolichanging thing has reached the height of absurdity, I see something like this. How long until they tell us global warming will shrivel our penises?
Wikipedia’s entry on Niagara Falls says that increased mist from the Falls that obscures the view from the Canadian side may be a result of global warming. I shit you negative.
- Although he hasn’t yet weighed in on the Stern thread, Ian Castles has been a regular contributor to the comments over at Climate Audit. Climate Audit being the often very technical blog of Steve McIntyre and Ross McKitrick, of Hockey Stick debunking fame (and well worth a look).
- It means that when we cycle back to global coldening, dem bitches is gonna hog ALL the blankets…Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 10 31 at 09:44 PM • permalink
- #5; Art, Tim Worstall also has some criticisms that might be worth checking out.
Meanwhile, I’ll do my bit to keep the globe cooler; I’ll keep the airconditioner running flat out!
Posted by eagle bomber on 2006 10 31 at 10:08 PM • permalink
- #13: “#9 It’s okay, blogagog, as long as there are rubbish bins to be put out, spiders to be killed and VCRs to be programmed, I am indispensable to women.”
Hmmm. The trash is usually outside already when I get home from work, Mrs. Paco feeds bugs to Paco Jr’s pet lizard with her bare hands, and she’s a VCR-programming whiz, as well as an excellent self-taught electrician and plumber. Must preserve illusion of indispensability!
Hey, look, honey! I tied my shoes all by myself, again!
- Obviously, Howard Stern is only worried about the future lesbian employment situation as it relates to his own financial well being and shouldn’t be taken at face value. It is a statement from Howard Stern, isn’t it?Posted by andycanuck on 2006 10 31 at 10:34 PM • permalink
- #2 There has been for decades. Environment Canada has been working on Climate Change for at least 15 years now. There are whole departments and bureaucracies and careers that depend upon global warming funding.
The whole thing is a complete hoax to keep bureaucrats and jet-setters well fed and travelled.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 10 31 at 11:04 PM • permalink
- That should have been #4 not #2. I see from #5 that Australia already has its own collection of parasites.Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 10 31 at 11:04 PM • permalink
- #6 Omigod, global warming will lead to increased evaporation from Viagra falls and no one will be able to get it up. Earth stops due to change in angular momentum brought on by BusHitler scheme to deny Big Bird her bananas.
We are doomed! We are all going to die!
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 10 31 at 11:08 PM • permalink
- Very OT, but lame-o ‘youth’ (i.e. thirtysomething) comedy show The Glass House has been axed. This show is the poster-child for publicly funded, smug, unreflective, Howard- and Christian-bashing ‘humour’ on our ABC. The stars are said to be ‘distressed’ and ‘devastated’. First time anything about that show has ever made me laugh.
- Well, I’ll be…
I guess it makes sense. We have one side of the economy making stuff and the other side geared to not making stuff (or having a meeting about not making stuff).
It has a symmetry about it.
Posted by SingleMalt on 2006 10 31 at 11:18 PM • permalink
- #29
I can’t focus on climate change. Not with rioting and looting in the cities, the international banking and finance system in tatters, raw sewage running down the streets of our darkened cities and airplanes falling out of the sky everywhere…
I thought we’d already had all that Y2K stuff and it was time to move onto something new. Well, new-ish, anyway.
- #6 Dave S…
“Wikipedia’s entry on Niagara Falls says that increased mist from the Falls that obscures the view from the Canadian side may be a result of global warming. I shit you negative.”I suggest a smallish water diversion project. That ought to leave one helluva rock climbing “experience” once the Falls are gone. At least it’s somethin’ to do if blogagog’s worst fears come true.
- But what id the walking catfish eat uncovered meat? Is this haram?
I’m getting confused.
BTW, there was a dingbat in the letters section of the Oz extolling the example of the planetary action over Y2K to push the same reaction to global warmy/coldy/dry-y/wetty whatever the fucks going on:-
AS we approached the new millennium, Y2K became the most important thing facing the world and billions were spent to ensure that our computer-dependent world was prepared. The Y2K bug hardly rates when one looks at the monetary and human cost global warming will have on everyone on the planet, and yet we have John Howard and George W. Bush unprepared to acknowledge the enormity of the problem. Even the latest dire warning on global warming by former World Bank economist Nicholas Stern has barely made a dent in the PM’s reluctance to acknowledge that global warming is a reality.
G. Unwin
Gold Coast, Qld
So by this reasonning, because idiot governments and cretinous business management got suckered with a world-wide con in 1999, we should repeat the performance and get our wallets hoovered by some spivs by panicking over another flim flam.
Evolution is a myth- humanity getes stupider by the nanosecond.
While we’re on the Stern report, I’m hoping to see some serious rebuttals soon.
This is a question I ask all the time.
Does your data take into consideration water vapor?
Water vapor, responsible for 95% of Earth’s greenhouse effect, is 99.999% natural (some argue, 100%). Even if we wanted to, we can do nothing to change this.
Adding up all anthropogenic greenhouse sources, the total human contribution to the greenhouse effect is around 0.28%
[Kyoto], even if imposed equally on all countries around the world, would reduce total human greenhouse contributions from CO2 by about 0.035%.
This is much less than the natural variability of Earth’s climate system!
- I’m just wondering whether we’ll hear the usual suspects warning about the dangers of surrendering our freedoms in the face of fear.
You know the kind of thing: If we start profiling at airports then the terrorists have won, etc, etc
I’m just guessing our hard won rights to drive cool cars and eat whatever the Hell we like may be under threat. I don’t see too much beard stroking over what promises to be the mother of all erosions of liberty?
- #26
The whole thing is a complete hoax to keep bureaucrats and jet-setters well fed and travelled.
In my view it is part of communism’s ongoing culture war agaimst the West.
Part of the how can we make them hate themselves and slow down their damn economies campaign, alongside the left’s attacks on Western culture, history, patriotism, etc.
- #44 trainer…
I read your link. Contrast that to the screed written at the “forced marriage” link provided above by Tim.I have a problem here. The commenters at “The road to Smur.. er… Surfdom” think everyone at “Tim Blair” are “smartarse idiot morally vacuous warbloggers”; so just what do you think you’re doing bringing incontrovertible science into this??? Shame! How in tarnation will Tim’s commenters ever live up to our hard-earned reputations?
By the way, is that Surfdom(sic) as in “surfdom-and-turfdom”? Like when I take my wife out for a steak-and-lobster dinner.
Heck, I’ve been working like a serf lately… better hit the rack.
P.S. Any chance this Stern geezer is correct? Because if he is, I won’t have to shovel 6 feet of snow this winter in 35-below-zero temperature. Again… like I’ve been doing most winters for decades.
- you might want to close those tags Joe, italics don’t grow on trees.Posted by Art Vandelay on 2006 11 01 at 01:26 AM • permalink
- UPDATE. Climate change will also cause forced marriage.
I don’t believe the Stern Report addresses the question everyone wants answered: will we see cats and dogs living together?
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2006 11 01 at 01:29 AM • permalink
- #53 ArtVandelay…
Damned italics!
Let’s see. Insert “” in front of “(sic)”, insert “” behind… forget it. Almost midnight here… mom told me to get to bed 2 hours ago. And I still have to let the dog out… and scrape the poop off the patio (wouldn’t want to pollute the environment). Damn dog shits a pile so high that 2 good men couldn’t shake hands over top of it.
- Humour inequalities between right and left will likely worsen with climate change.Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 11 01 at 01:47 AM • permalink
- Molo the magnificent, clairvoiant to royalty will now astound you with his predictions!!
The answer to gerbil worming is …(drumroll)… more regulation and higher taxes, both direct, and indirect.
Thank you donations in the hat please.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 11 01 at 02:08 AM • permalink
- O/T – Another triumph for The Lancet. Unbelievable.
London – In the first comprehensive global study of sexual behavior, British researchers found that people aren’t losing their virginity at ever younger ages, married people have the most sex, and there is no firm link between promiscuity and sexually transmitted diseases.
Note the small print which kyboshes the wholke survey as a beat-up:
Wellings noted that since the survey results were based on self-reporting, they could be susceptible to error.
‘Could be’ susceptible to error. Stone me.
Fox News (and doubtless others).
Posted by walterplinge on 2006 11 01 at 02:16 AM • permalink
- You have to hand it to the people who came up with global warming/climate change/end of the world from carbon spewing capitalism.
Can anyone think of one of the left’s bug bears it doesn’t deal with. It’s like the Ikea of politics causing everything from envioronmental damage to higher taxes to gender inequality while at the same time making it hotter, colder, wetter, drier, stormier, calmer, snowier and clearer.
It’s a marketer’s wet dream.
- #18
Dammit, Paco, what about the Tardis, Rovian killbots (don’t mention the MkIII modification which makes ‘em into the buggerbot, OK?), global warmenating instant reversal satellite array (heard from kilo recently?), death laser satellites, moonbase, marsbase, starships and the recent 400 metre upward extension to Andreas trophy wall!
Does none of this count with Mrs paco?
MarkL
Minionmeister to the VRWC<erm, she did not find out about Caligula’s bucks party, did she??>
- Another quote from the report, quoted on “Road to Surfdom”
Women are also particularly vulnerable to the effects of natural disasters with women and children accounting for more than 75% of displaced persons following natural disasters.
Hmmm. Consider a 3 generation family: nanna and pop, their two adult kids, with spouses, and the two offspring each of the adult pairs have produced. You finish up with 7 women and children to only 3 men (or 70% of the population).
Kill off pop because pops usually don’t live as long as nannas do. That brings the women and children population to 78%. Add more kids per generation and the percentage of women and children just keeps going up and up whether or not there’s a natural disaster. And remember that natural disasters include such things as earthquakes and volcanic explosions which, last I heard, have nothing to do with global warmening.
This bloke’s alarmism is contemptible.
So, wait, lefties are FOR forced marriage, near-slave like conditions for women, and all that when caused by Islam, but AGAINST the very same things when “caused” by climate change?
Color me confused.
Climate change = caused Western culture.
Islam = not Western culture.
Clearer now?
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2006 11 01 at 07:24 AM • permalink
- Offtopic, but Webdiary is back up. This post is called “The Horror”, so it seemed like the most appropriate place to mention it. 😉
I liked the great pic/title Harry Heidelberg used for his post when it went down…
- So gerbil worming will cause women to be attracted to the man with the most food, shelter, power, and pretty baubles?
And that would be different to now how?…/hides behind Andreas wall, they cant get me here.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 11 01 at 08:14 AM • permalink
- #49 No, climate change IS islamPosted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 11 01 at 09:16 AM • permalink
- Thanks Tim for that last link update
The posts there are rather amazingly twisted and one caught my eye:
This is part of Mr z’s comment
I was going to post a comment in response to this at Blair’s, but after reading the number of commenters on the linked post there who stated their wish for the mass-executions of ‘leftists’ as a response to climate change, while simultaneously calling the eco-aware “fascists”, I decided not to waste my time
Really?
I can’t remember seeing you all post about mass executions!
Or do the regulars here have some kind of code? That I haven’t worked out yet?
Posted by aussiemagpie on 2006 11 01 at 09:33 AM • permalink
Wish I had a link to the ‘report’ which argued – seriously – that global warming was worse for women because they were less likely than men to be able to swim.
Poppycock. Not only do we know how to swim, our increased body fat makes us eminently more floatable.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 11 01 at 09:59 AM • permalink
- Here’s an example of how well-researched and solidly presented this report is.
Women are ‘over-represented’ in agriculture and the informal economy, sectors that will be hardest hit by climate change. This exposure is coupled with a low capacity to adapt given their unequal access to resources such as credit and transport. Women are also particularly vulnerable to the effects of natural disasters with women and children accounting for more than 75% of displaced persons following natural disasters. [113]
[113] is a reference to this lovely paper: ‘Caught in the storm: impact of natural disasters on women’. San Fransisco, CA: Global Fund for Women.And that paper takes its reference from this poorly-cited article: Most tsunami dead female – Oxfam
So that “women and children account for more than 75% of displaced persons following natural disasters” is inferred from an Oxfam report on a couple of villages in Aceh following the tsunami.
Posted by jabberwocky on 2006 11 01 at 10:17 AM • permalink
I kinda think that if that witless child Tim Blair and his minions vanished from the blogosphere the average IQ across the board would rise considerably.
Ooo, I would so love to have a dueling IQs contest with blogosphere left. Bring it on.
signed,
A witless child Tim Blair minionPosted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 11 01 at 10:44 AM • permalink
- Dear Climate Mufti:
I will shortly be attending a conference on Climate Change Activism in a far part of the world. Since the Jew manipulators have done away with all the sailing ships, I will be forced to travel there by airplane. I know that our spiritual leader Monbiot (pbuh) has declared airplanes unclean; can you tell me, O Tim, if there is any ritual by which the plane may be made clean and suitable for use of the faithful?Posted by Paul Zrimsek on 2006 11 01 at 10:44 AM • permalink
How long until they tell us global warming will shrivel our penises?
Don’t you think that’s already the problem for many of the climate alarmists, Dave?
#9 It’s okay, blogagog, as long as there are rubbish bins to be put out, spiders to be killed and VCRs to be programmed, I am indispensable to women.
I put out my own trash, kill my own spiders, know how to program a VCR and don’t have cold feet. Now, why do I need you men? Oh yeah, now I remember…
It is a statement from Howard Stern, isn’t it?
Yes.
And who says a warmer planet is bad anyhow…?
Indeed. As with any change, there will be winners and losers. Seems like North America will be one of the winners (our neighbor to the north already is counting the extra revenue derived from its increased agricultural capacity and extended growing season). How’s that for a kick in the teeth, ecofascists? The biggest polluter and most egregious waster of global resources is likely to benefit and profit from a slightly warmer planet (and remember, we know how to turn a buck from almost anything). But with that Anartic ice sheet supposedly expanding and all, I am a little worried about you guys Down Under.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 11 01 at 11:16 AM • permalink
- #81 Kyda Sylvester
Can’t speak for my fellow Aussies but we’ll be right here in my neck of the woods
The Georges River down the road should just rise enough to make us into waterfront zillionaires – which should keep our assorted offspring happy when the will is read out
Posted by aussiemagpie on 2006 11 01 at 11:29 AM • permalink
Another quote from the report, quoted on “Road to Surfdom”
Women are also particularly vulnerable to the effects of natural disasters with women and children accounting for more than 75% of displaced persons following natural disasters.
Posted by Janice
That’s not unlike the shocking statistic that 40% of employee absence occurs on Mondays and Fridays.
- #52 Joe B
As a marine zoologist I studied all of these global environmental trends 4 decades ago. They were predicted and predictable, and there were solid scientific reasons for them. I’ve seen nothing to change my mind.
That was until the illiberal godawful greenies made a religion out of them.
Is it getting warmer. Yes. It’s supposed to. In about 200 years it’ll start getting cooler. It’s supposed to. It’s a 500 year cycle overlaid on a 1500 year cycle overlaid on a 10,000 year cycle overlaid on a 100,000 year cycle overlaid on a million year cycle. And don’t forget to throw in the 11 year solar cycle. It’s even got a name…Milankovitch Theory from 1842 for Gods sake.
From a more empirical standpoint, think about the Currier and Ives etchings – Deep snow in London all winter in the mid 1800s. That corresponds to the low point in the temperature swings. Think about Chaucer’s writings – it was much warmer in England at his time – much much warmer than now. The swings are regular and predictable.
Globular Warmening is a joke and no serious scientist (i.e., one not dependent on moonbats for money) will sign on to it.
- #73
Paco, you are just SO screwed.
Nothing we can do to help you. Remember the first trial trip in the Tardis, back to the Neolithic?
We watched poor old Urg the Hairy spend 2 days stalking and killing that humungous Mastodon, clean it, drag it back to the cave while fighting off Cave Bears and Giant Hyenas, and what did his missus say to the poor panting shagged-out bastard?
“Urg, just where the #$£%& do you expect me to put all of THAT?”
MarkL
Minionmeister to the VRWC
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