Mar 11, 2018 at 9:56 AM | Supertroll
Far more likely Climate Change and lack of sea ice in the Arctic, don't you think?

UaT. Have Shetland's snowy owls been displaced by golfCharlie's repatriated ponies?

Mar 10, 2018 at 10:23 PM | lapogus
While I read the piece it crossed my mind if anyone would remember Shetland's Snowy Owls. Then I discovered they're everywhere.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-21589828

Climate change 'impacts women more than men':

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-43294221

Leaving aside the American English used in the headline (I appreciate it's in quotes) I struggle to accept at least some of the ideas behind this article. As usual, the assumption is that climate change can only be bad, and never beneficial.

I accept that where the burden of domestic chores falls more heavily on women than on men, and where climate change renders the performance of those chores more difficult, then women may be adversely affected than men. Or as the article puts is:

"Roles as primary caregivers and providers of food and fuel make them more vulnerable when flooding and drought occur."

The article then goes on to suggest that natural disasters generally affect women more than men, citing the Asian tsunami as an example (I accept that they don't say that the tsunami was the result of climate change, so at least that's something, though referencing the two types of events in the same article might confuse some people, and I can't help wondering if that's the general idea):

"In the wake of the 2004 tsunami, an Oxfam report found that surviving men outnumbered women by almost 3:1 in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and India.

While no one cause was clear, there were similar patterns across the region. Men were more likely to be able to swim, and women lost precious evacuation time trying to look after children and other relatives.

Another study spanning 20 years noted that catastrophic events lowered women's life expectancy more than men; more women were being killed, or they were being killed younger."

But this?

"UN figures indicate that 80% of people displaced by climate change are women."

So, let's get this straight - in the case of natural disasters, men are much more likely than women to survive, yet 80% of displaced people are women? Where do the (vastly greater numbers of) men go?

More sensationalism - like much in the world of climate alarmism, it doesn't add up. It might explain why so many women's groups attended COP 23, however....

@Mar 10, 2018 at 12:58 PM | Registered Commenterstewgreen

A vicious circle ? So are the costs.

ottokrng:

Thatcher did take on the BBC. She effectively sacked its head, Alasdair Milne, whose son Seamus is now a leading Marxist light in the Labour Party. The family grudge runs deep.