Posted on 12/14/2004 11:05:12 PM PST by FreedomCalls
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - Severe weather caused by global warming can pose greater physical danger to women than men, a Canadian attending a UN conference on climate change said Friday.
"For instance, often women don't know how to swim, so in a flood situation that can lead to a higher instance of death or injury," Angie Daze, a program manager with a Canadian group called Reducing Vulnerability to Climate Change, said.
Plans for international co-operation to fight global warming beyond the end of the Kyoto Protocol dominated the United Nations conference on climate change.
The top European Union negotiator said support was building for a proposal to hold a pair of international seminars next year to discuss additional measures to reduce climate change after 2012, when the landmark agreement ends.
"We're quite encouraged with the response we've received from a number of negotiating partners," including Australia, Mexico and Switzerland, chief EU negotiator Yvo de Boer said Friday.
The gatherings would serve as informal forums to begin discussing possible future emmissions cuts and other steps beyond the timeframe of the Kyoto Protocol.
De Boer acknowledged that deliberations at the conference may appear to be moving slowly, but stressed that progress was being made.
"The Kyoto Protcol is probably the most important international environmental agreement," said de Boer, a senior official in Holland's environmental ministry.
"To really embark on the next stage of discussions, which will have far greater implications, is very significant."
Meanwhile, scientists and environmentalists at the conference continued to warn participants of the dangers of climate change, which many believe poses a serious threat to life on Earth.
Caspar Ammann, a scientist and climatologist with the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, said temperature changes are apparent all around the world.
"You see the glaciers disappearing very rapidly, you see changes in vegetation and changes in seasonal cycles," Ammann said.
"It's not anecdotal that the climate system is warming."
"I think maybe in 10 years' time we will know a little better," said Shuzo Nishioka of Japan's National Institute for Environmental Studies.
Other speakers on the sidelines of the Dec. 6-17 conference said women in poor countries are particularly vulnerable to the effects of global warming, which has been blamed for causing more violent storms and rising sea levels, among other problems.
"Women are highly dependent on the environment for their family responsibilities" in developing countries, said one environmental worker based in Bangladesh.
"Any type of environmental degradation impacts them more severely than men."
Severe weather caused by global warming can pose greater physical danger to women than men ... "For instance, often women don't know how to swim, so in a flood situation that can lead to a higher instance of death or injury,"What kind of weed would you have to be smoking to come up with a rationalization like this? This is so far out, that I'm beginning to think that some on the looney left have brain damage from years of chemical abuse.
I almost fell off my chair...
Hilarious!
Oh, and we might want to add that this comes from a UN conference!
My head is hurting from trying to follow this thought pattern ...
Gee, and for years I thought those synchronized swimmers were women. Now I know they were just drag queens in waterproof makeup....
My brain is hurting. Global warming is a paper bag and it's leaking the toxic waste of STUPIDITY, as is evidenced by the ugly stain of this so-called "article".
Get it OFF MY COMPUTER NOW!!! I don't want it to get all over the internet!!!
What do you mean you're BEGINNING to think they've got brain damage??? QED!
Besides, everyone knows that women will survive BETTER in severe cold weather - it's that extra layer of fat!.
(ducking for cover...)
"For instance, often women don't know how to swim, so in a flood situation that can lead to a higher instance of death or injury," Angie Daze, a program manager with a Canadian group called Reducing Vulnerability to Climate Change, said.
"Angie Daze" -- is Daze her last name or an apt description of her mental state? My God, what a bunch of morons!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Women & minorities hardest hit."
Even Thomas Jefferson noted this! In 1777 Jefferson wrote in Notes on the State of Virginia Query 7:
A change in our climate however is taking place very sensibly. Both heats and colds are become much more moderate within the memory even of the middle-aged. Snows are less frequent and less deep. They do not often lie, below the mountains, more than one, two, or three days, and very rarely a week. They are remembered to have been formerly frequent, deep, and of long continuance. The elderly inform me the earth used to be covered with snow about three months in every year. The rivers, which then seldom failed to freeze over in the course of the winter, scarcely ever do so now. This change has produced an unfortunate fluctuation between heat and cold, in the spring of the year, which is very fatal to fruits. From the year 1741 to 1769, an interval of twenty-eight years, there was no instance of fruit killed by the frost in the neighbourhood of Monticello. An intense cold, produced by constant snows, kept the buds locked up till the sun could obtain, in the spring of the year, so fixed an ascendency as to dissolve those snows, and protect the buds, during their developement, from every danger of returning cold. The accumulated snows of the winter remaining to be dissolved all together in the spring, produced those overflowings of our rivers, so frequent then, and so rare now.But Ammann said "It's not anecdotal." Oh no, not at all. Just that every Grandma from earliest times on have said that "the climate is changing." Even though cyclical changes in climate is normal and natural. It's interesting to point out that Jefferson thought the climate change he noted was quite "sensible." I wonder where all the SUVs were to cause the warming that Jefferson wrote about?
In more ways than one apparently.
And from a Canadian delegate!
Oh oh. Bring out the lawyers. This shows that global warming disenfranchises women.
That's supposed to read, "Women and children impacted most!"
You got it; I got it wrong again as usual.
The UN is paying the bill, transporting lunatics from different countries to these public "forums". In order to their stupid personal anecdotes and paranoia. The rest are government scientists trying to justify their next decade's budgets.
Get the US out of the UN (and vice versa) now.
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