Baby, It's Warm Outside -- The climate is changing. Lock up your daughters..

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Is "climate change" corrupting the morals of women around the world?
That's a question nobody is asking if ever there was one, yet a dozen
left-wing congressmen, led by Rep. Barbara Lee of California, are
answering in the affirmative.

The Hill reports that the duodecad--who include such leading lights as
Hank Johnson of Georgia and this column's own representative, Carolyn
Maloney--last week introduced a resolution blaming global warming for
"drought and reduced agricultural output," which they claim "can be
particularly harmful for women."

Specifically, "food insecure women with limited socioeconomic resources
may be vulnerable to situations such as sex work, transactional sex, and
early marriage that put them at risk for HIV, STIs, unplanned pregnancy,
and poor reproductive health," it says." (In case these terms are
unfamiliar, "food insecure" is a jargon term meaning at risk of
malnourishment or starvation, "sex work" is a euphemism for prostitution;
"transactional sex" refers to relationships in which sex is exchanged for
gifts; and STI is an abbreviation for sexually transmitted infection.)

The inclusion of "early marriage" is a bit of a head-scratcher. At first
it made us think of Susan Patton's detractors, who think no woman under
33 or so should ever tie the knot. But maybe they're referring to forced
marriage of Third World girls who would be considered underage in the
U.S. or other Western nations.

Then again, the resolution isn't concerned only with the supposed effects
of climate change on developing countries. It claims that "women in the
United States are also particularly affected by climate-related
disasters, as evidenced in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf
Coast region, which displaced over 83 percent of low-income, single
mothers." No comparative figures are given for, say, low-income single
men.

The resolution "encourages the use of gender-sensitive frameworks,"
whatever those are, "in developing policies to address climate change,
which account for the specific impacts of climate change on women."

Such a call would have more credibility if those making it had ever shown
the slightest concern about the impacts of _social_ change, such as
welfare, feminism and the sexual revolution, on women and children. In
cities that have never experienced a hurricane, millions of children grow
up without fathers. That's a disaster even in the fairest of weather.


--
"Nobody is interested in solutions if they don't think there's a
problem. Given that starting point, I believe it is appropriate to have
an overrepresentation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is,
as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the
solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this
crisis."
� � � � -- Al Gore acknowledges exaggerating the dangers of "global
� � � � � �warming"