Global Warming - Blame it on Men!

I think you can safely say that feminism is dying when they start blaming men for global warming and claiming that women are suffering the consequences of what men have wrought.

The debate over climate change evolved into a battle of the sexes Monday at the 11th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference in Montreal. The spokesman for a feminist-based environmental group accused men of being the biggest contributors to human-caused "global warming" and lamented that women are bearing the brunt of the negative climate consequences created by men.

"Women and men are differently affected by climate change and they contribute differently to climate change," said Ulrike Rohr, director of the German-based group called "Genanet-Focal point gender, Environment, Sustainability."

Rohr, who is demanding "climate gender justice," left no doubt as to which gender she believes was the chief culprit in emitting greenhouse gasses.

"To give you an example from Germany, it is mostly men who are going by car. Women are going by public transport mostly," Rohr told Cybercast News Service. Rohr was standing in front of her booth, which featured a banner calling for "creative gender strategies" from "rural households to global scientific bodies."

"In most parts of the world, women are contributing less [to greenhouse gasses]," Rohr continued. But it is the women of the world who will feel the most heat from catastrophic global warming, she said.

I would think women would greatly benefit from global warming. I know in my house I'm always trying to cool the place off and Mrs. HolyCoast is always cold. A little global warming would benefit her, and it would benefit me in the form of reduced sweater bills (the Mrs. loves her sweaters).

The demand for "climate gender justice" didn't win universal approval from the conference attendees:

A spokesman for a conservative group attending the conference mocked the linking of gender to any potential climate change.

"Nature does not discriminate between the sexes. The issue is absurd on its face," Peyton Knight, the director of environmental and regulatory affairs at the Washington D.C., based conservative group, National Center for Public Policy Research, told Cybercast News Service . The National Center takes a skeptical view regarding the scientific basis behind the theory of catastrophic human caused climate change.

"It's hardly surprising that in the same year liberals tried to inject race into natural disasters and hurricane issues that they are now trying to inject gender into global warming issues," Knight said, referring to the politically charged racial fallout surrounding the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.

"Feminists must be running out of arenas in which to stage their issues," he added.

I think feminists with hot flashes probably add more to global warming than anything men have done.