“The consequences of climate change can exacerbate the risk of sexual & gender-based violence, especially those facing intersecting forms of discrimination including Indigenous women & girls,” tweeted Christine Clarke, the “Australian Ambassador for Women and Girls” on June 28, 2022. Clarke featured a video with her climate gender violence message.
By: Marc Morano – Climate Depot July 2, 2022 7:07 PM
Christine Clarke’s bio claims she “advocates for gender equality and the human rights of women and girls.”
“As we confront the climate crisis, women and girls’ human rights, must be at the center of our collective efforts. Climate change and its consequences can exacerbate the risks of sexual and gender-based violence. This risk is most acute for women and girls facing multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination and inequality, including indigenous women and girls,” Clarke explained in the video she posted.
“We stand with Pacific women and girls in responding to the climate crisis, including by providing negotiator training to support woman delegates from Pacific island countries to represent their countries in international climate change meetings,” Clarke said.
She added, that “women and girls’ human rights is an important part of securing the future of our planet and a better future for us all” and “addressing violence against women and girls in the context of climate change and the women’s peace and security agenda.”
Clarke was appointed to this position on January 31, 2022, by the Australian Government: “Today I announce the appointment of Ms. Christine Clarke CSC as Australia’s next Ambassador for Women and Girls. Promoting gender equality, the rights of women and girls, is a priority for Australia. As Australia’s Ambassador for Women and Girls, Ms Clarke will work to ensure that gender equality, and empowerment of women and girls, is a central focus of Australia’s diplomatic, development, and regional security efforts,” Australian Senator the Hon Marise Payne wrote.
“Prior to commencing in the role of Ambassador for Women and Girls, Christine Clarke worked with the Pacific Gender Section in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, on Reserve Service following completion of her lengthy full-time Navy career in June 2021.
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Climate Depot analysis:
This is not the first time climate and sexual violence and/or rape have been linked. In 2013, United Nations IPCC Contributing Author Solomon Hsiang a public policy prof. at U. of Calif., Berkeley, co-authored a study in the journal Science claiming the following: ‘The study found that the rate of interpersonal violence, including assaults & rapes, increases 4% for every ‘standard deviation change in climate toward warmer temps or more extreme rainfall.” Intergroup conflict rises 14%’
UN IPCC’s lead author Dr. Richard Tol also ridiculed the study in 2013, asking, “How long before a rapist argues ‘I’m innocent, climate change made me do it?” Tol added, “Climate change will not turn us all into rapists and murderers.”
Here are some Twitter replies to Clark’s linking of climate change and rape:
“50 years from now when historians look at why the Western Empire fell, they will look at videos like this and realize we voted incompetents into public office.This is what happens when your notes get mixed in with another topic.”
“Its competition to see who can say the most ridiculous thing out there folks.”Translated as, “I’ve got to justify my salary with a word salad speech filled with popular cliches so I can get back to doing nothing”
“That’s the strangest word salad I’ve heard for ages. Is this a parody?”
“You’ll need a chiropractor after the acrobatics you’ve performed trying to link the two topics.”
“It means that the ice caps melting will cause you to attack your wife. Just roll with it, it’s science.”
“Is there anything that’s not claimed to be ‘consequences of climate change?’”
“Progressivism 101: Leverage fear and grievances to achieve more government control.”
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Tol rips: ‘Climate change will not turn us all into rapists and murderers’
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This calls for a hastily arranged yacht party with lots of scantily clad young people, most of whom wear bikinis.
I doubt Ms. Clark would be invited.
You’re right. Downers have to be bought off with “equity.”
CC certainly causes Diabolical Stupidity in Government funded studies
That’s her problem. If she can’t have fun, neither can we.
Because the elite deserve such perks to compensate for all the exhausting work they do on our behalf. I assume Kerry’s yacht is available.
Remember, it’s really not his, one of the Heinz Family trusts owns all the cool stuff. Yes, good ole John Kerry, the ultimate wannabee.
He is living the dream, “You will own nothing, and you will be happy”….
Which one, the one he cheats taxes on in the U.S. or the one he cheats taxes on in France?
if not theres some stolen ones going spare
The Mann tried that once with Kerry. Neither one looked good in the Bikini
Make sure the yacht has a few weather instruments on it so the party can be classified as a scientific expedition.
So we fix climate change and number of rapes will drop????????? DOH….. what imbecility.
I can see all the lawyers arming up for the climate change made my client do it defense. It will replace the I was abused as a child defense they use now.
Well at least the potential defence has a diabolically stupid scientific study to back it up
But we Australians have already seen Climate Change increases arson. This seems just a logical extension.
Serious question Jane –
do women and girls in your circle of friends and acquaintances get really embarrassed by these kinds of declarations from “ambassadors” for your gender?
The serious question my circle of friends is asking is how did the usually-rational-female Marise Payne make the decision to appoint her?
I served with Christine Clarke many years ago and she was quite a firm, fair and pragmatic Naval Officer. I am very disappointed in her post reading this crap. But this is probably evidence of, noting what you have said about Marise Payne’s involvement, of the political club sticking together. No senior officer in any military is not a politician. For the American readers, this is proof that the USN is not alone in this folly.
So was she running the “progressive” dogma to hold on to the juicy gig that Marise Payne slotted her into?
probably since there has been a change in government and where else would she get such a great well-paid gig.
wondering that as well
So Florida must be hell on Earth and Alaska the safest place after Antartica
So I suppose there must be many fold more rapes in Florida than Maine because the temperature in Florida so much higher than in Maine. Let’s see what the data say……..
Oops it’s 38/100,000 in both. How about Maryland versus Maine since Maryland isn’t as warm as Florida but it’s still much warmer than Maine. Oops again! It’s 31 in Maryland still 38 in Florida.
The data must be wrong like so much in climate science. I’ll fix it tomorrow. It’s gotta conform don’t you know.
Alaska has the most by far of 50 states https://www.statista.com/statistics/232563/forcible-rape-rate-in-the-us-by-state/
A bunch of husky mf’ers in Alaska too.
Every time we think bloviating leftists have reached the limit of stupid they find a way to plumb new depths.
🥗Christine Clark mixes an even better word salad than Kamala Harris or Joe Biden.🥗
🇦🇺Congratulations Aussies 🇦🇺, you are truly over-achievers when it comes to government.
Not even close! Dementia Joe’s “Trunalimunumaprzure” & “dog faced pony soldier” are pure
gibberish. Giggles is the favorite for the silver. Christine will need to train much harder to even make
the medal stand as Pete Buttigieg- the man who says less by saying more- is currently on target for
the bronze.
The scary video of the day, is this part of a Putin agent training video course?
It’s the Cliffnotes version of one of Brezhnev’s boring 3hr-4hr speeches.
So long as she is working hard to work together with all the involved departments that are working towards working together
That’s a whole lot of togetherness and bugger all else!
nah Putins team wouldnt be that stupid, this is prime aussie idiocy and Kamela is american exceptionalism/exceptionally stupid
I hope U.S. allies are watching this video. I mean the citizens not the leaders.
I think that “T” is referring to the women’s competition. Joe (maybe) still knows that he is male – and while Petey Boy may or may not be a “bottom,” he hasn’t said he’s “transitioning.”
BTW, has anyone else noticed that when DJT made a screw-up with “covfefe,” the media immediately went into attack mode? But he went along with the humor of it, and turned a finger-fumble into a plus. Whereas whenever this bunch in DC is completely garbled, the press secretary and the compliant media is all ready to tell us what he “really” said, we’re just too dumb to understand?
Reminds me of an old (1976) Doonesbury comic where “Honey” is the only person who can interpret what Chairman Mao is saying. Dementia Joe hasn’t reached this point yet, but it could be in our future:
The Chairman’s eyes speak volumes
When everything is a priority, nothing is.
The first problem when a national leader is given a portfolio with interpersonal violence reduction as its focus is that interpersonal violence is always a local problem (this includes rape and domestic violence). A national office that is anything more than a data clearing house and communication facilitator for the local governments to see problems and share ideas will always fail to improve things. Usually they get in the way and make things much worse.
The second problem is never give a leftist a portfolio in anything. They will first cause problems then make the problems far worse with the solutions with the goal of subjugating everyone else to their will.
I’m sure rape survivors are applauding. Not! 🙄
OMG, Angie Merckel’s sister, another feminist ##, sad and misandrous old frump.
Yes hun, climate does cause those things, in your dreams.
(We do all recognise what a ‘pearl necklace‘, as she’s wearing is……<wink wink>)
We truly are on Planet Dumb here and that A Girl should so afflicted tells just how much shyte we really are in
## How much weight do we attach to the theory that, as a Population Control Measure, the CIA launched and disseminated Feminism upon this world?
That cannot be true, no Government initiative has ever done, ever will do, what it was intended to achieve.
““advocates for gender equality and the human rights of women and girls.”
A complete oxymoron. Blokes in frocks are women – geddit? It’s the new patriarchy.Women, just shut up.
Psst…
Sex = hardware
Gender = software glitch
Because there’s no “W” in LGBTQ+, feminists should have realized they would be “thrown under the
bus” to make room for liberals’ new darlings!
No, what they need is a vowel in there somewhere.
(h/t Rake)
Also, add all preferred pronouns ala Johann Gambolputty
Ladies Gone But not Trending Quotas
It is not fashionable to point out that the U.S.’s chief model for women’s gender equality suffers from male-pattern baldness. We will continue to have confusion on this issue until the world’s leading biologists come to a 97% consensus on what a woman is to elucidate the legal reasoning of our Supreme Court Justices. Of course, that depends on what is is. It is deep issues such as this that engenders lavish funding for law schools and the legal profession in general. [Pun intended.]
they can use 78 words for describing a woman as some damnfool aus pollie did
or K .I. S. S.
born with XX genes
I wait for an explanation. why there is a link…..(if there is any)
Correlation of the length of women’s skirts with the stock market.
or lipstick
I had a hemorroid flareup recently – damned climate change!!
Could be worse. Poor Ukrainians are forced to pack up and flee their homes.
Someone needs to protect the nations financial security
GW causes every felony, including genocide. I’ll have to add hemorroids to my short-list of ailments
& diseases GW causes.
I think she’s correct
Clearly, there was no abuse of women and girls during the Little Ice Age.
True: The LIA cold shrank the necessary appendages.
Well, with a combined 14 layers of garments to get through back in LIA, by half-way through the violation, the abusers might have forgotten what they had started out to do?
I have censored myself to spare the moderators the angst of having to do it.
When it’s warm, girls dress less modestly, causing more rapes. When it’s cold men look for someone warm to cuddle with, causing more rapes. When it’s cold, polar bears eat more people.
We’re doomed no matter what.
Less clothes do not make more rapes or nudist camps would each have their own police station.
Good news, bad news.
Good news – at least this nut job is no longer in the Navy. Australia dodged a bullet.
Bad news –
“Flashback: LA Times: Climate change brings more crime – Study: ‘Between 2010 & 2099, climate change can be expected to cause an additional 22,000 murders, 180,000 cases of rape, 1.2 million aggravated assaults…a 0.8% increase in cases of vehicle theft’
Between 2010 – 2099?? – Chicago has already been there, done that by 2021…
“Good news – at least this nut job is no longer in the Navy. Australia dodged a bullet.”
Good point!
Aussies, you brought it all upon yourselves. If you didn’t chuck out my hero Novak Djokovic, the most famous son of our tiny Monte Negro, you wouldn’t have the Albanese for PM, followed by all the curses that have befallen on your nation. Repent, let Novak in next time to play at your the Grand Slam again and the Providence may look after you again!
Well the UK may be ok for now but with the US open coming up it doesn’t look good. Perhaps we ought to start detailing the Djokovic effect on countries around the world!
ah yes chairman Dans work
hes 50 today? i gather
amazing to live this long and manage to be so daft and still employed..ONLY a pollie can manage that!
*CRINGE*
No other word for this CAGW plea for stronger observation of “women’s rights”.
Australia has officially replaced Germany as the most nutty climate place IMHO.
Hmm, as a UK citizen, I feel that I should put in a word for the UK!
If climate change is having any behavioral effects, it is making politicians and pundits stupider.
It’s also making them more stupid.
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/stupider
Yes exactly. Either stupider or more stupid can be used perfectly well in that context. I completely fail to see why anyone would have a problem with that or downvote it. What are you, some kind of weird grammar freak?
Climate delusion definitely causes brain rot amongst politicians.
Or, perhaps, the reverse!?
It’s mix and match agenda key words day. Celebrate with stupidity.
Ministry of Silly Walks warns Climate Change ™ may reduce walk silliness 80% by 2750.
Sex-based violence? Socially liberal orientation. Transgender at the fringe.
Since there is more warming occurring in Winter than Summer, has there been a greater increase in “gender-based violence” during the Winter compared to Summer? I doubt it.
I thought the new rule of ethics was “if it feels good, do it”, a few short steps away from “might makes right”?
You don’t suppose that a society entirely divorced from traditional morality, there might be more of what was at one time quaintly referred to as “sin”?