"More power for women means less bad gas in the air. Nations where women have higher political status tend to have lower carbon dioxide emissions"

Notes from a Warming World | Earth Island Journal | Earth Island Institute

More power for women means less bad gas in the air. Nations where women have higher political status tend to have lower carbon dioxide emissions, says a new study published in the journal Social Science Research. The study, by sociologists Christina Ergas and Richard York from the University of Oregon, also says “nations with higher proportions of women in parliament ratify a greater number of environmental treaties.”

...“This finding suggests that efforts to improve women’s political status around the world, clearly worthy on their own merits, may work synergistically with efforts to reduce CO₂ emissions and avert dramatic global climate change,” the study concludes. Americans, ye who are ruled largely by men, take note.

...Another looming problem for wind power: Apparently big wind farms have a warming effect on local climates. That wind can warm should come as no surprise, really. Many commercial orchards in the US routinely use tiny windmills to circulate air to keep trees warm and protect fruit from freezes. But what researchers are now discovering is wind farms can have that same effect on a much bigger scale.