Posted on 12/14/2004 11:05:12 PM PST by FreedomCalls
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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