The old joke continues: World To End Tomorrow: Women, Minorities Hardest Hit
As my tipster writes:
To think the WMO used to be a respected scientific organization….
MM
In a keynote address at the launch of the International Gender Champions Climate Impact Group, Celeste Saulo, secretary-general of the WMO, stated that women and men are affected differently by weather and climate, and therefore need gender-sensitive information and services.
Since taking office at the start of 2024, Saulo has stated that one of her priorities is to foster greater diversity within the WMO, ensuring equitable representation across gender, regional and cultural lines. She is committed to implementing the WMO Gender Equality Policy which was updated in 2023.
https://www.meteorologicaltechnologyinternational.com/news/world-meteorological-organization/the-climate-crisis-is-not-gender-neutral.html
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Many of WMO’s programs to strengthen climate adaptation seek to address the barriers faced by women and marginalized communities in accessing resources and decision making tools. For instance, the Fiji Meteorological Service – in line with government policy – is working to mainstream gender in the provision of early warning systems thanks to the support of partners like Climate Risk and Early Warning Systems (CREWS).
Saulo continued, “I am determined to use my voice as an international gender champion to ensure that gender considerations are mainstreamed in climate policies. We have no time to lose. We stand at the intersection of inequality and climate change, and our strategies must reflect the urgency of the times.
https://www.meteorologicaltechnologyinternational.com/news/world-meteorological-organization/the-climate-crisis-is-not-gender-neutral.html
There’s not much to say about this, except to repeat the tipster’s quote
To think the WMO used to be a respected scientific organization….
MM
HT/MM
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“need gender-sensitive information and services”
I understand fully, with 192 genders and counting, the need becomes overwhelming.
I was just about to say that.
If “Women” are more affected than “Men” then where does a Biological Man fall on the affected list?
Least affected?
If Male born are Trans Females more affected?
Or being male biologically only similarly affected?
How did they determine that Cis White Males are least affected?
Sounds RacioSexually discriminatory to me.
Of course it’s not gender neutral because if the “climate crisis” doesn’t exist in the first place, neither males nor females are affected by it regardless. Even if there were one, it hasn’t had any negative effect on global life expectancy since the World Health Organization has just reported that this has increased from 67 to 73 during the first two decades of this century.
1.. Need to define what “gender” means, what a “man” is, and what a “woman” is.. good luck with that 😉
2.. If a man can be a woman, and a woman can be a man… how can you possibly tell if there is “gender inequity” !
I keep trying to plus-up this comment, but the result is a decrement. Grrrrrrr
I’ll “plus it up” for you then
I think “gender” means something that has to do with confusing the output of a kitchen “blender” with what was originally put into it.
A school’s blender can easily confuse what is a banana with what is honey pot (Sorry. Couldn’t come up with anything better!)
The confusion of hormones hitting during puberty be damned! We’ll jump in and convince them a few hormone inhibitor shots will solve all their issues!
“Nature’s course” doesn’t ‘understand you!”
Hit the blend button.
To them, it’s the output that matters.
One mixed up kid.
Grifters got to grift.
It takes a lot of donations, grants, commissions and kickbacks to maintain that stylish “international gender champion” jet set lifestyle.
This is what happens when Truth and honesty are no longer in currency. Lies and deception have to be carefully crafted on a group-identity basis. The lies that have to be told to a cis-maie have to be quite different than to a trans-man or trans-woman. A completely different lie has to be made for non-binary, and don’t leave out the gender-fluid who are the gender equivalent of Schrödinger’s cat.
Fiji Meteorological Service – in line with government policy – is working to mainstream gender in the provision of early warning systems.
So what are they going to do, make all the warning alarm really high pitch so men cannot hear them?
WMO, stated that women and men are affected differently by weather and climate, and therefore need gender-sensitive information and services.
Don’t remember having to know the “gender” when solving any of those Thermodynamic problems.
Your tipster appears to be MM. Is that Michael Mann.
Ugh!
The WMO redefined “climate” to be only 30 years now, instead of the thousands to millions of years most of us were taught.
I guess now one has to say “long-term climate” if one is talking about the older definition.
I guess the 2.56 million-year ice age the Earth is in, in an 11,700-year-old interglacial period, with 20 percent of the land frozen would be the long-term climate.
with the present gen memory span long term is anything from Monday, on Friday!
The 30-year definition was selected, somewhat arbitrarily, to filter out the effect of such short-range phenomena as ENSO, PDO, and AMO. But, of course, there are no doubt other oscillations with longer range than 30 years, so what we may see as ‘long-term climate change’ may also include non-long term factors.
The religion demands compliance with the whole catechism. Climate change is but one article of faith, intersectionality with gender is another.
CounterPunch, a proudly Marxist website, often reads much the same as NBC or NPR.
There must be a few real meteorologists at the WMO, you know, those who practise real science, who cringed and wanted to scream when they saw this. No?
Why would you expect a UN type organization to have actual science-knowledgeable employees?
Administrators, yes. Assistants to the Adm, yes. Something like “turtles all the way down.”
they got moved sideways or retired Id hazard
Funding for mental hospitals needs to be dramatically increased. These ideological sickos will become even more deranged when Trump is re-elected.
If such an election result engendered an “insurrection” as was being promoted but fizzled out, when Trump won, will anyone be prosecuted?
The climate crisis is not gender neutral – that sounds like a Michael MacIntyre joke – the one that goes: Why do they skip the number 13 when they number the seats in planes, do they think that row 13 will suddenly drop out of the plane in mid-air?
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Sorry I don’t know why that comes up in large font.
Font size Mike !!
ps.. I think it was Kip had the same issue a couple of days ago.. stray formatting?
Copy text to NotePad, then copy paste from there… all formatting gone !
I copy to a document with an “unformatted” tag. Like bnice says.
I can clean up odd things there and then copy and paste back to these boxes.
‘[Celeste] Saulo said, “Women and girls are disproportionately affected by climate change and weather-related disasters” […] To demonstrate her point, Saulo highlighted how more women than men died in the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 … ’ (Elizabeth Baker).
Apparently earthquakes and tsunamis are now accepted as impacts of the climate crisis engulfing the planet, at least according to the secretary-general of the WMO.
Incidentally according to Wiki the confirmed death toll of the Indian Ocean Tsunami was 184,167 while the estimated death toll was 227,898, so the gender breakdown of overall deaths is unknown.
men can run faster and women had to grab the kids? if it was even true?
So Ms Saulo is lying about more women dying in the tsumani than men because there is no demographic breakdown, and she is confused about what makes up the weather wrongfully connecting tsumanis with climate change.
Just what we would expect from an organization like the WMO, in today’s world..
Does the United States send money to fund the WMO? If so, we should stop. We are not getting our money’s worth. The money is going to fund fanatics and promote delusional ideas. This is not in the interests of the United States.
Ignoring the eye-popping conflation of geological processes with weather (and climate), the only evidence I’ve found for Celeste Saulo’s claim that women were disproportionately affected by the Boxing Day tsunami comes from Oxfam. According to that report, the reason for the disproportionate number of women killed was entirely an accident of the day of the week, the time of day, and the traditional roles of men and women in one small geographic area. Cudely summarised: the men were safe at sea in boats or inland on errands, while many women were on the shoreline preparing to receive the catch or washing. At another time on another day it could have turned out very different.
Quite what gender-sensitive information and services the WMO or International Gender Champions Climate Impact Group imagines it could offer for such obscure circumstances is hard to guess.
More men die of heart attacks shoveling snow than women. Does that even things out at all?
No, because we soon won’t know what snow is. Especially children. Except, of course, when heavier snowfall is ‘consistent with global warming.’
😂 🤣 😅 😆
Like the “tipster” said.
“To think the WMO used to be a respected scientific organization….”
She might as well cited the disparity between men and women dying of uterine cancer. Since OF COURSE, it is, wait for it…
Caused by climate change. 😅🤣😂
Oh good, another waste of talent and money.
Blame CO2-AGW-Climate and you don’t have to solve a real problem.
All the money wasted on meetings, groups, and gender-sensitive information and services could go to providing clean water and nutrition to those in need.
Nothing these folks are doing – at great expense and wasted talent – will improve anyone’s living conditions.
And, of course, “The Climate”™ won’t notice or care.
Well said John.
It really is just pointless virtue-seeking idiocy, isn’t it.
I take exception to ‘wasted talent’.
Just “wasted”…
… no apparent talent involved.
“We stand at the intersection of inequality and climate change…”
Anyone else thinking of The Weather Channel’s Jim Cantore and his infamous hurricane stand-ups?
If you’re thinking of the clip where of an site where a “live” TWC channel guy was struggling to stand up against he hurricane force winds while a couple of guys were calming strolling along in the background, that wasn’t Jim Cantore that had trouble standing up.
After the goof was pointed out, TWC tried to excuse it by saying Jim Slidell(?) had a balance problem.
Yet another attempt to deceive by TWC perceived..
Nobody suffers more than women. Just ask my wife. She will tell you about it. In great detail and at great length.
They may suffer, but not in silence.
I don’t make my wife go out and shovel shovel the snow off of our driveway.
We are (“she is”) fortunate enough to have neighbors that have done it for us (her) before I realize (I need to send her out because) it’s already been done.
In short, my wife loves “Global Warming” because she likes our neighbors. 😎
I suppose she has to do something to justify her presumably fat salary even if it is total nonsense.
How can you even start to satirise something called the International Gender Champions Climate Impact Group?
🎶We are the Champions
We are the Champions…
Of the Gender🎶
Wait. That *wasn’t* satire?!
😂 🤣 😅 😆
Oh, and I can only imagine that LBGQ and racial minorities now have a grievance against the WMO for being left out!
Is this the light at the end of the tunnel of darkness? The utter lunacy which precedes the return to rationality?
““The climate crisis is not gender neutral””
So is it male? O is it female?
Er, that’s it.
Well, first of all, there is no climate crisis, and second, it is ridiculous to claim that stormy weather affects one gender more than another. If both genders are present, the stormy weather affects both of them equally.
Equality has already been established by Mother Nature.
All UN organizations are apparently being headed by lunatics.
It’s time to defund these characters.
Nothing to disagree with there.
Idiots thinking they can play at being God.
“The climate crisis is not gender neutral”
Yes, it’s very obviously a woman. Able to bat aside logical counterarguments with impunity and tries to make you feel guilty for something vague and undefinable.
Silly Climate Risk and Early Warning Systems (SCREWS)
ah yes…the “diversity” problem
its the DIE bulldust is the problem
In the US, the CDC says that in 2021, men lived to 73 while women lived to 79. Perhaps all the rough and poor living from the climate crisis affects men more than women? Then another Federal agency, NOAA says their Climate Reference Network shows that temperature in the US has not changed since 2005. Who to believe?
How would a large dinosaur ending asteroid affect women and marginalized communities? I’m guessing they would be adversely affected and disproportionately based of race and gender? In the weeks leading up to impact there would be an inordinate increase in micro-aggressions requiring additional staffing of NGOs to provide translators and trigger warning specialists carefully selected to look like women and marginalized communities. In the days before impact there will be outbreaks of the inappropriate use of ‘jazz-hands’ thus causing more distress and actual harms. All companies will be required to give impact statements to demonstrate how they will be inclusive during and give examples of where they have helped an aboriginal bushmen make important financial and strategic decisions, while acknowledging that the asteroid was caused by racism and colonialism. In the hours prior to impact face masks must be worn and everyone must stay in doors 4 metres away from everyone else, and everyone must have had all vaccines and be fully boosted.
Disclaimer – This is parody
There is some truth there. The advent of affordable electrical energy has fostered development of tools freeing women from the formally full time job of maintaining a household, freeing many to enter the workforce and pursue careers.
“Celeste Saulo, secretary-general of the WMO, stated that women and men are affected differently by weather and climate, and therefore need gender-sensitive information and services.”
I thought “women and men” wasn’t a thing anymore. What kind of “gender champion” wants to stick us all back in the bifocal gender straight jacket again? I want to know how the mild warming of the past 150 years is going to mess with my identification as an ambidextrous, throat singing, gender expansive, vegan, astrosentient, Llama with three legs. That’s the sort of problem these suppose scientists should be working on, not worrying about whether the presence of testis and extra fur will provide a survival advantage when the air conditioning is suboptimal.
Hmmm … much of the world still considers women as second class citizens, including on the UN’s council on Human Rights (or whatever the they call it).
I suspect this claimed threat is targeted at the women of “The West”.
The rest have no say worthy to be be considered.
(The “WHO” is a UN thing, right?)
Each and every new crisis tells us a “respected” institution shouldn’t be so respected.
As they transform themselves into institutions no longer worthy of anyone’s respect, we should note that Rodney Dangerfield, while being disrespected, at least provided entertainment.
These idiots contribute absolutely nothing of use to society, and everyone who reads or hears their moronic spew is in danger of instantly becoming less intelligent (or more stupid, as the case may be).
Derision in vast quantities is a must.