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Saturday, December 18, 2004
Your daily CanCon requirement
"Severe weather caused by global warming can pose greater physical danger to women than men, a Canadian attending a UN conference on climate change said Friday.
"'For instance, often women don’t know how to swim, so in a flood situation that can lead to a higher instance of death or injury,' Angie Daze, a program manager with a Canadian group called Reducing Vulnerability to Climate Change, said."
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Comments
This is a hoot! If Angie wants to know how to swim, just tell her to lie on her back and use her breasts as floatation devices. It's bound to work because her breasts are obviously brighter than her brain
Posted by: John Palubiski | 2004-12-18 9:50:40 AM
One more thing. Where is all this global warming, anyhow? It's -15C here today and -23C with the wind chill.
Posted by: John P | 2004-12-18 9:57:22 AM
Are...Are...they deliberately trying to prove that Kyoto is a farce, or is this the state of modern academia?
Posted by: Scott | 2004-12-18 10:31:32 AM
Dare I add that women, with their average higher percentage of body fat than men, are more bouyant and therefore better able to keep their heads above water?
I *do* dare. ;-)
Posted by: Garth Wood | 2004-12-18 4:16:11 PM
And I can't spell "buoyant," either.
Posted by: Garth Wood | 2004-12-18 4:17:46 PM
No, no, no, John.
If the temperature goes up, it's due to climate changes caused by humans. If the temperature goes down, it's due to climate change caused by humans.
You see?
Posted by: dr_dog | 2004-12-18 4:45:43 PM
This has been picked up by a number of blogs. A typical comment, listed on my blog
https://www.nomatterware.com/NoMatterWare/Web/PressReleases/index.cfm?action=listPressReleases&accountid=159&releaseid=972
was "Well she was a Canadian. She was bound to say that".
Posted by: Derek Nalecki | 2004-12-18 5:47:50 PM
Taking off from Darth Woods comment about fat and women, dare I say that it stands to reason that they have more in their heads also, hence their tendency to be liberal, Dave Yalden
Posted by: Dave Yalden | 2004-12-19 1:33:37 PM
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