Jamaica Gleaner News - Women, children feeling effects of climate change - Lead Stories - Saturday | May 2, 2009

The lives of women and children are particularly being affected by the growing problem of climate change, a United Nations official has warned.

Deputy Resident Representative of the United Nations' Develop-ment Programme (UNDP), Akiko Fujii, has stressed that changes in weather patterns have affected the physical growth and educational status of many children.

Al Fin: Carbon Hysteria Threatens World Economies

The tragedy of these governmental policy blunders is that they are all totally unnecessary. There is no climate catastrophe brewing. The likely sea level rise between now and the year 2100 is approximately 3 1/2 inches. Antarctica is not losing ice -- in fact Antarctica is gaining sea ice at a startling rate. The far more realistic threat is global cooling, with deadly cold winters, shorter growing seasons and less rainfall leading to more global hunger.