The enviro-nuts must be getting really desperate. A bureaucrats from the Philippines actually is claiming that global warming is causing more prostitution, which is increasing the spread of HIV. I can easily believe that more prostitution is a reciple for more sexually-transmitted diseases, but the assertion that climate change is causing more prostitution is laughably absurd:
Effects of climate change have driven women in communities in coastal areas in poor countries like the Philippines to risk dangerous jobs, and sometimes even into the flesh trade. 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.
[...] 8, 2010 by Dan Mitchell I’ve already posted about the nut who claimed that global warming was causing AIDS, so I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised that a writer for the New Republic says global [...]
[...] already posted about the nut who claimed that global warming was causing AIDS, so I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised that a writer for the New Republic says global warming [...]
[...] I haven’t written much on the global-warming debate, other than to warn about how agenda-driven government funding is corrupting scientific inquiry and to mock nutjob extremists who assert climate change will cause catastrophes ranging from genocide to AIDS. [...]
[...] and susceptible to bias, but I doubt people in that field would ever make a claim as absurd as global warming causes AIDS. And I doubt they would try to do something as stupid as rationing toilet paper or create something [...]
[...] I usually limit myself to examples of silly radicalism, such as the crazy claim that climate change causes AIDS, a reprehensible example of EPA thuggery, and a column about pointless recycling [...]
[...] (at least by the standards of the global warming cranks who say that “climate change” causes AIDS and that skeptics are [...]
[...] poll (at least by the standards of the global warming cranks who say that “climate change” causes AIDS and that skeptics are [...]
[...] The environmentalist claim that climate change causes AIDS. [...]
[...] these American politicians are behind the times. A Filipino bureaucrat at the United Nations proposed this laughable theory as early as [...]
[...] these American politicians are behind the times. A Filipino bureaucrat at the United Nations proposed this laughable theory as early as [...]
[…] P.P.P.S. You won’t be surprised to learn that climate-change ideologues claim that global warming causes prostitution. […]