Will Climate Change Make Life Harder for Girls?
A new study suggests that climate change will make life even more arduous for adolescent girls in the developing world
The report from the nonprofit Plan U.K., as well as the U.K. Department for International Development, focuses exclusively on the developing world's 500 million adolescent girls. They are the ones, the authors note, who walk hours to findwater and increasingly rare firewood, and are disproportionately killed or displaced innatural disasters.
It recommends increasing access to high-quality education as a means toward helping girls address gender discrimination as well as finding paid work and building more resilient families. That, in turn, the report argues, will help reduce girls' vulnerability to climate change-related weather disasters.
priddseren02:21 PM 8/2/11
Sault, I proof of a negative is impossible. You are the one who needs to supply proof there is human caused climate change and the method is somehow magically a natural molecule called CO2.
Now for some actual reason. Nothing the United States does will change anything. Even using your completely bogus dogma that the Evil CO2 in your flawed computer models somehow magically cause a greenhouse effect, the FACT is the the rest of the world puts out 75% of these so called pollutants. Also, because people like you do not actually include measures from the billion or so people who use wood and coal for cooking and heating in the poorest parts of asia as part of your input, it is likely America is less than 25% of the out put.
But lets say you get your way and the evil America is put down forever, the population wiped out and everyone in America is reduced to stone age subsistence farming, effectively reducing American CO2 out put to Zero(oh yeah, it is a natural substance we all exhale, so I guess Zero is not possible) But lets say Zero anyway, the 75% of the world out put is still there and because they are expanding and growing and have NO effective pollution controls at all, it is likely they will replace the 25% of the American output and then some in a few short years. Logic, sir is all you needed to conclude nothing America does will reduce Global Warming, making the assumption that Global Warming is somehow caused by humans.
Now before you start screaming proof at me, I cant prove humans are not doing something. BUT sir, climate models and statistics, with bizzare concepts like a "global average temperature" and comparing a measly 50 years at best of accurate temperature data on less than 1% of the atmosphere with tree rings of 2000 years ago and ice cores from the last ice age, amounts to nothing at all, except to say Climate Change is natural.
It is easy to see when a theory is bogus, when the backers of the theory have NO conditions that prove it wrong and literally anything that happens, even earthquakes are magically somehow proof. Then you get this butterfly effect nonsense that somehow girls are more affected by climate change. It is nonsense like that that proves the human caused global warming theory is wrong. These girl's are in dire straights because they live in cultures that view women as less than animals. It has nothing to do with global warming. Maybe one day you people will actually show a real physical experiment proving your theory, until then try banning a real pollutant.
Howard Roark's Courtroom Speech
From The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand
“The only good which men can do to one another and the only statement of their proper relationship is—Hands off!
“Now observe the results of a society built on the principle of individualism. This, our country. The noblest country in the history of men. The country of greatest achievement, greatest prosperity, greatest freedom. This country was not based on selfless service, sacrifice, renunciation or any precept of altruism. It was based on a man’s right to the pursuit of happiness. His own happiness. Not anyone else’s. A private, personal, selfish motive. Look at the results. Look into your own conscience.
“It is an ancient conflict. Men have come close to the truth, but it was destroyed each time and one civilization fell after another. Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
“Now, in our age, collectivism, the rule of the second-hander and second-rater, the ancient monster, has broken loose and is running amok. It has brought men to a level of intellectual indecency never equaled on earth. It has reached a scale of horror without precedent. It has poisoned every mind. It has swallowed most of Europe. It is engulfing our country.
“I am an architect. I know what is to come by the principle on which it is built. We are approaching a world in which I cannot permit myself to live."
Noted from the 'Blogs I'm Following' update
Canadian media : It can't happen here.
On March 30, 2009, Stephen Harper, PMO staffer Kory Teneycke, Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox News, and Roger Ailes, president of Murdoch-owned Fox News and former communications adviser to Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George Bush Sr., all sat down to lunch.We know this because it showed up in the mandatory disclosures media consultant and former White House flack Ari Fleischer made to the U.S. Justice Department. Ari, you will recall, had a personal contract with Steve to grease US media wheels for him. Teneycke had a dream of a Canadian Fox news channel.
Four months later, Teneycke had left the PMO - barely a year into his job as Harper's chief spokesman - only to pick up a contract with Quebecor to explore a project that Ottawa insiders almost immediately described as a fledgling "Fox News North."another Harper former chief of staff Ian Brodie explains about Canadian papers: "so few people actually read most of them."
Yet somehow the rightwing National Post muddles on for 13 years losing $9-million a year, no one seems to know who owns
We could have a Murdoch-style scandal here and it would be out of the news cycle again the same week, no damage done.
Natives in Alaska and Louisiana devastated by nation's largest oil spills
Native communities in Alaska and Louisiana devastated by oil spills and climate change
NEW TOWN, North Dakota -- Native Americans in Alaska and Louisiana have both suffered from the nation's largest oil spills, which have devastated Native communities who depend on subsistence from the land and oceans to survive.
Faith Gemmill of REDOIL (Resisting Environmental Destruction on Indigenous Lands) said oil spills and climate change should serve as a wakeup call in North America -- but this has not happened.
REDOIL is pressing for a moratorium on new oil, gas and coal extraction.
REDOIL Background
REDOIL was created in June of 2002 when a group of Alaska Natives came together in Cordova to share knowledge, experience and strategies for addressing the detrimental impacts of oil and gas development in Alaska.
The following principles had been agreed upon by the participants of that gathering who have formed a new network, Resisting Environmental Destruction on Indigenous Lands or REDOIL.
The Principles of the REDOIL network, a program of the Indigenous Environmental Network:
We adhere to the inherent right to self-determination for all indigenous peoples.
We reject the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act as an illegitimate infringement on our right to sovereignty and self-determination.
We are committed to a moratorium on all new exploration for oil, gas and coal as a first step towards the full phase-out of fossil fuels with a just transition to sustainable jobs, energy and environment. We take this position based on our concern over the disproportionate social, cultural, spiritual, environmental, and climate impacts on indigenous peoples, particularly in Alaska.
We are committed to creating sustainable economic solutions for our communities.
We are committed to upholding and promoting the integrity of our traditional cultures and values.
We are committed to an intergenerational approach, which honors the wisdom and guidance of our elders and that values the role of our youth.
We are committed to standing in solidarity with the members of this network and their struggles for self-determination and a sustainable future for the seventh generation to come.
All decisions of and direction for the network will come from the indigenous members from impacted communities. Non-indigenous supporters will be included at the prerogative of the decision-making members.
New members will be added to the network by consensus of the group based on adherence to our principles.
We welcome individuals and legitimate, empowered representatives of communities and organizations that accept and adhere to the principles.
REDOIL is honored to share, reach out and network with Indigenous peoples who want to defend their inherent way of life.
We believe that the working group has the potential to bring these critical issues to a head and address them with honor, science, and spirituality and to help build an alliance where our collective voice will be louder than broken promises
We reject the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act as an illegitimate infringement on our right to sovereignty and self-determination.
We are committed to a moratorium on all new exploration for oil, gas and coal as a first step towards the full phase-out of fossil fuels with a just transition to sustainable jobs, energy and environment. We take this position based on our concern over the disproportionate social, cultural, spiritual, environmental, and climate impacts on indigenous peoples, particularly in Alaska.
We are committed to creating sustainable economic solutions for our communities.
We are committed to upholding and promoting the integrity of our traditional cultures and values.
We are committed to an intergenerational approach, which honors the wisdom and guidance of our elders and that values the role of our youth.
We are committed to standing in solidarity with the members of this network and their struggles for self-determination and a sustainable future for the seventh generation to come.
All decisions of and direction for the network will come from the indigenous members from impacted communities. Non-indigenous supporters will be included at the prerogative of the decision-making members.
New members will be added to the network by consensus of the group based on adherence to our principles.
We welcome individuals and legitimate, empowered representatives of communities and organizations that accept and adhere to the principles.
REDOIL is honored to share, reach out and network with Indigenous peoples who want to defend their inherent way of life.
We believe that the working group has the potential to bring these critical issues to a head and address them with honor, science, and spirituality and to help build an alliance where our collective voice will be louder than broken promises
Killing Mother
A Few Interesting Pieces of Trivia About Food and Climate Change
Industrial agriculture is one of the leading contributors to climate change. This is because everything about industrial agriculture is based on fossil fuel. Fertilizer is made with fossil fuel. Pesticides are made from fossil fuel. Herbicides are made...You get the picture. Then there is the mechanized planting and harvesting of crops. To top it all off, industrial agriculture is not intended for local markets, so grain and soybeans grown in the Midwest (and the Amazon rain forest) are shipped (using fossil fuel) across the world. The rain forest problem is another contributor. Large land areas are currently being deforested in the Amazon to grow soybeans. These soybeans are primarily destined for American and European markets where they are used primarily as feed for livestock.
Which bring us to the next tidbit of interesting trivia. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, meaning it is very effective at absorbing infrared radiation (heat). As a greenhouse gas, it is 20 times more powerful than our old nemesis carbon dioxide. Methane doesn't come out of your car's tailpipe, but it does come out of the tailpipe of a certain ruminant that we are very fond of eating, cows. Here's the shocker: the western diet's lust for cheap hamburgers is a leading contributor to global warming. Estimates of the cow effect range from 18% of total contributions to greenhouse gasses to up to 50%, if one factors in the combined effect of the grain diet, transportation, etc. Factory beef is so detrimental, in fact, that giving up beef in one's diet is equivalent to trading in your car for a bicycle. I would offer a caveat here (and the jury is still out on this) that pasture raised cattle probably are not as detrimental to the climate. Factory beef is obscene on many levels, and greenhouse gas production is just one of them. So if you must eat beef, buy it from the farmer down the road who lets his cows live like cows. Otherwise, ride a bike and do some major karmic mitigation.
A final piece of trivia for today is that much of the corn crop grown in America does not go to feed the world (as rumored). It is turned into high fructose corn syrup and inserted into almost every faux food on the planet. Your taxpayer dollars are subsidizing obesity, type II diabetes and global warming while our government is telling us we need to tighten our belts. What is wrong with this picture?
( I should apologizr for wholesale pilferage of the article - and will clip if desired.That said - Corporate Farming in the Topical Index is specifically about industrialized 'agriculture' - and Monsanto )
Canada silences a salmon expert
The Canadian federal government in Ottawa has silenced a leading West Coast fisheries scientist who has argued that a virus is infecting and killing sockeye salmon when they enter the Fraser River, not far north of the U.S.-Canadian border.The undammed “mighty Fraser” supports four of the world’s greatest sockeye salmon runs, push other salmon, fish that are caught by commercial, recreational and native fishers in waters of both the U.S. and Canada.The Privy Council Office, senior bureaucratic component of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government, has told scientist Kristi Miller not to talk to media about Miller’s “Suffering Salmon” study, according to documents obtained by Postmedia News.Miller directs a $6 million salmon genetics project at the Ministry of Fisheries and Oceans’ Pacific Biological Station on Vancouver Island. The research journal Science published her findings in January.“When the lead author of a paper in Science is not permitted to speak about her work, that is suppression: There is simply no ifs, ands or buts about that,” said Jeffrey Hutchings, a senior fisheries scientist at Dalhousie University in Halifax, quoted by Marlies Jordan in the Vancouver Sun. […]“In one high-profile case reported by Postmedia News last year,” wrote Jordan, “Natural Resources Canada scientist Scott Dallimore had to wait for ‘pre-clearance’ from political staff in the minister’s office in Ottawa to speak about a study on a colossal flood that swept across northern Canada at the end of the last ice age.” […]
dear u.s.: tax corporations, tax the rich, end the useless wars. there, problem solved.
Letter to the Globe and Mail, July 30:It's remarkable how in the current debate about the U.S. debt ceiling, the extravagance of American military spending is seldom even mentioned. In its fiscal 2010 budget, the United States gave $685-billion to the Department of Defense – more than the total military spending of the next 20 countries combined. Does the U.S. need to maintain at least 94 air force bases at home and abroad? Does its navy alone require as much money as the combined amount that Russia, Germany and Japan spend on their entire defence budgets?
Of course not. But to raise such questions in Washington now might be considered un-American, while to eviscerate budgets in health and education is considered patriotic.
Mark Abley
Montreal
Drought leaves 4.28 mln people short of water
drought in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and the provinces of Gansu, Guizhou and HunanThunderstorms were forecast for most of the province in the coming week
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