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Women are at greater risk from global warming than men, claims MEP in 'bonkers' EU row
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Posted on 04/30/2012 8:04:20 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Women are at greater risk from global warming than men, claims MEP in 'bonkers' EU row

By Tamara Cohen

PUBLISHED: 17:54 EST, 19 April 2012 | UPDATED: 18:26 EST, 19 April 2012

A bizarre row has broken out among EU politicians over whether climate change is a feminist issue.

Members of the European Parliament will vote today on a report by a French Green party MEP who claims global warming ‘is not gender neutral’.

Women, claims Nicole Kiil-Nielsen, ‘consume more sustainably than men and show greater willingness to act to preserve the environment’ as they tend to organise household consumption and childcare.

She said that discrimination against women could be made worse in the developing world if climate policies do not take gender discrimination into account.

She was yesterday subjected to a withering attack from Marina Yannakoudakis, a Tory MEP for London, who called her motion ‘bonkers, baseless and bad for women’.

The report – Women and Climate Change – calls for a 40 per cent female quota on all EU delegations in climate negotiations and on the committees that allocate climate aid from member states. Funding is set to reach £62billion a year by 2020.

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Of course..........
1 posted on 04/30/2012 8:04:24 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

Samich makin is hard. It even harder when it hot.

So git me a beer while you up.


2 posted on 04/30/2012 8:07:17 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: Sub-Driver
"I get more free stuff!"

"No. Me. Give it to me!"

3 posted on 04/30/2012 8:08:09 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the sociopath.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Broad stereotyping is double-plus good.

Women care about the earth more than men.
Women are more responsible than men.

But women are emotionally unstable and should not be allowed to hold positions of political power.

Oh. Did I cross the line? Was my stereotype bad? I should just stick with their stereotypes?

I don't think I'll play the game that way.

4 posted on 04/30/2012 8:08:20 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Like Emmett Till, Trayvon Martin has become simply a stick with which to beat Whites.)
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To: Sub-Driver

and the insanity of the know-nothings acolytes of the “global Warming” religion abounds.


5 posted on 04/30/2012 8:09:47 AM PDT by RightWingConspirator (Obamanation--the most corrupt regime since Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe)
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To: Sub-Driver

“Women, Sex Deviates, and the Poor hardest hit”, as always.


6 posted on 04/30/2012 8:11:20 AM PDT by traditional1 (Don't gotsta worry 'bout no mo'gage, don't gotsta worry 'bout no gas; Obama gonna take care o' me!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Heh, heh. Women and minorities hardest hit.

These folks crack me up.


7 posted on 04/30/2012 8:15:00 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: Sub-Driver

I am an european and despair at the way Europe is shaping up. Crazy MEPs, islamization of the continent, lose of free speech, technocrats at the elm of the EU to name but a few nightmarish problems.
I shall look at moving to America, if you get rid of Hussein Obama in November. I don´t see the point of moving if he is still in charge, a muslim at he head of America is as bad as in Europe.


8 posted on 04/30/2012 8:15:27 AM PDT by Christian1
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To: Sub-Driver
Women are at greater risk from global warming than men, claims MEP...

Why, will it make hot flashes worse?

9 posted on 04/30/2012 8:16:40 AM PDT by FreedomOfExpression
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To: FreedomOfExpression

Maybe they fart more—and I KNOW sometimes theirs are more POTENT than men!!


10 posted on 04/30/2012 8:19:57 AM PDT by Rca2000 ( Most Americans know more about "American idol" than about the american FLAG...)
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To: Sub-Driver

“The report – Women and Climate Change – calls for a 40 per cent female quota on all EU delegations in climate negotiations and on the committees that allocate climate aid...”

I think I’ve located how “global warming” may be a women’s “green” issue - money may be involved.


11 posted on 04/30/2012 8:24:03 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: Sub-Driver
They're being crucified!
12 posted on 04/30/2012 8:30:27 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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To: Sub-Driver

I think I finally have it figured out:

Governments are now run by people who watch stand-up comedy and think they’re seeing a public policy seminar...


13 posted on 04/30/2012 8:32:42 AM PDT by Hunton Peck (See my FR homepage for a list of businesses that support WI Gov. Scott Walker)
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To: cripplecreek
Samich makin is hard. It even harder when it hot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nns0_RR1ct8

Okay, I'm outta here, running...

14 posted on 04/30/2012 8:38:08 AM PDT by the_devils_advocate_666
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To: Sub-Driver

What? Women can’t swim?


15 posted on 04/30/2012 8:38:12 AM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (Burning the Quran is a waste of perfectly good fire.)
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To: Psycho_Bunny

You can tell the AGW/IPCC CO2 scam has collasped by how DESPERATE the SOCIALIST DEMOCRATIC LEFT gets with the propaganda.


16 posted on 04/30/2012 8:43:23 AM PDT by spawn44
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To: Sub-Driver

is this from the Onion?


17 posted on 04/30/2012 8:49:41 AM PDT by MNDude
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To: the_devils_advocate_666

LOL that’s funny.


18 posted on 04/30/2012 9:03:08 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: MNDude; Sub-Driver
"Women, claims Nicole Kiil-Nielsen, ‘consume more sustainably than men'"

I consumed more susttainably just today, And I still have a quart of sustainably in the fridge.

16 oz cold sustainably!
and all those B-Vitamins, too!

19 posted on 04/30/2012 9:15:38 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Evidence, and reasonable inference from evidence.)
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To: Sub-Driver

It’s all part of the republican’s war on women. Use the climate to destroy minorities and women. Then all that will be left are white men (Republicans). Pretty clever, huh?


20 posted on 04/30/2012 9:29:09 AM PDT by BO Stinkss
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