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jimpeel

Well-Known Member
It has been proven by history that warmer temperatures increase farming output but these idiots think that cooling the Earth will increase farming output.

We're all gonna die!!!

SOURCE

‘Climate change pushes poor women to prostitution, dangerous work’
JOSEPH HOLANDES UBALDE, GMANews.TV
11/19/2009 | 01:19 PM

The effects of climate change have driven women in communities in coastal areas in poor countries like the Philippines into dangerous work, and sometimes even the flesh trade, a United Nations official said.

Suneeta Mukherjee, country representative of the United Nations Food Population Fund (UNFPA), said women in the Philippines are the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change in the country.

“Climate change could reduce income from farming and fishing, possibly driving some women into sex work and thereby increase HIV infection," Mukherjee said during the Wednesday launch of the UNFPA annual State of World Population Report in Pasay City.

In the Philippines, small brothels usually pop up near the coastal areas where many women perform sexual services for transient seafarers. Often, these prostitutes are ferried to bigger ships by their pimps.

Based on the UNFPA report, there are 92 million Filipinos in the country as of 2009 and that number is expected to balloon to more than 146 million in the next 40 years.

Of the 92 million Filipinos, about 60 percent are living in coastal areas and depend on the seas for livelihood, said former Environment secretary Dr. Angel Alcala.

Alcala said that “we have already exceeded the carrying capacity of our marine environment."

But as the sea’s resources are depleted due to overpopulation and overfishing, fishermen start losing their livelihood and women are forced to share the traditional role of the man in providing for the family.

Alacala, who also heads the Angelo King Center for Research and Environmental Management in Siliman University, said some women often pick out shellfish by the coastlines, which exposed to storm surges.

Women who can no longer endure this work often go out to find other jobs, while some are tempted to go into prostitution, Alcala added.

In an interview with the Inter Press News Agency, Marita Rodriguez of the Centre for Empowerment and Resource Development, Inc. said women are taking the brunt of climate change.

"Aside from their household chores and participation in fishing activity, they have to find additional sources of income like working as domestic helpers in affluent families," she said.

The UNFPA noted that the temperature in the earth’s surface has risen 0.74 degrees Celsius in the past 100 years. The 10 warmest years globally since 1880 have also been recorded in the last 13 years.

“Slower population growth, for example, would help build social resilience to climate change’s impacts and would contribute to a reduction of greenhouse gas-emissions in the future," the UNFPA report said.

The UNFPA suggested five measures to mitigate climate change and overpopulation:

* Bring a better understanding of population dynamics, gender and reproductive health to climate change and environmental discussions at all levels;

* Fully fund family planning services and contraceptive supplies within the framework of reproductive health and rights, and assure that low income is no barrier to access;

* Prioritize research and date collection to improve the understanding of gender and population dynamics in climate change mitigation and adaptation;

* Improve sex-disaggregation of date related to migration flows that are influenced by environmental factors and prepare now for increases in population movements resulting from climate change; and

* Integrate gender considerations into global efforts to mitigate and adapt to climate change.

- GMANews.TV
 

jimpeel

Well-Known Member
You're obsessed. Warmer temps can certainly screw up crops.

What crops?

What crops would grow better at 40 degrees than at 80 degrees?

Why did crops grow in Greenland, which do not grow there today when the temperatures were warmer than they are today, 800 years ago?

Why was England a grape producing country 800 years ago, when the temperatures were warmer than they are today, and they are unable to do so now?
 

spike

New Member
I was using Jim's model. Did you notice where he had temps rising 40 degrees?

Probably not. Well anyway, just look at the post above mine. It should say "jimpeel" in a larger green font. Let me know if you're still having trouble.
 

ResearchMonkey

Well-Known Member
See I think the real problem is the ability to grow crops. When crops are good, people have more money to spend on prostitution.

Destroy all the crops = put an end to prostitution.
 

Winky

Well-Known Member
*Flash* Algore is still an idiot!

the devil is in the details and
the ‘other effects’.
 

Winky

Well-Known Member
So… Quite often it hits 110 here in Phoenix
will my A/C unit keep me cool when it’s 150 outside?
 

ResearchMonkey

Well-Known Member
Because there would be catastrophic other effects.

Catastrophe is a common action on earth, do not attempt to change forces you do not understand. Obviously you folks don't understand temperature fluctuation on earth, stand aside. The earth is a dangerous place, embrace it.
 

spike

New Member
If you ignore all the other effects and just look at crops rising temperatures would make many areas that can now grow crops too hot to support them.
 

Gonz

molṑn labé
Staff member
I recall some pretty healthy gardens in Phoenix yet nary a snow pea was to be found.
 
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