This is scary.

Current predictions of ice melt in the Arctic are probably way off. According to an updated model, glaciers in the icy north could be slipping into the sea up to 100 times faster than previously forecasted.

Too bad they couldn’t have been way off in the other direction. Arctic ice melting way more slowly than we thought! But no, always it’s faster.

Scientists at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) think they’ve figured out at least part of the problem.

Gaps in data meant that climate scientists have been plugging in observations from accessible glaciers to build models of how all glaciers melt.

But what’s happening to the Antarctic ice sheet amid

The “Institute” has been tweeting a lot of posters lately…including, of course, the give us money kind.

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— Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (@LemkinInstitute) December 20, 2022

What does that mean? Works with them how? It’s very vague and general – could mean anything or nothing. Is that an accident? Or could it be because they don’t actually do anything? Except self-promotion?

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— Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (@LemkinInstitute) December 20, 2022

Contribution for what purpose? What do they do?… Read the rest

I've sometimes been accused of being a psychopath and a liar for accusing GCs and their fascist allies of promoting genocide of trans people. The Lemkin Institute agrees with me.https://t.co/kBkf8U9rzM

— Roz Kaveney (@RozKaveney) December 21, 2022

A person agrees with him.

Take it up with the world's premiere anti-genocide organization. I can't rewrite their link.

— Roz Kaveney (@RozKaveney) December 22, 2022

Hoo-boy – where did he get that idea? It’s not the world’s premiere anything. It’s an obscure academic and her website.

H/t Mostly Cloudy.… Read the rest

So, they’ve done it.

The Scottish Parliament has passed legislation which aims to make it easier for transgender people to change their legally recognised gender.

At the expense of women.

Campaign groups have warned that the reforms – which seek to make the process for people to obtain a gender recognition certificate easier – could risk the safety of women and girls.

Will. Not could, but will.

However, supporters of the changes insist that it is about simplifying the process and removing hurdles within the current requirements.

That’s not a however, it’s just an and. Of course it’s about simplifying the process and removing hurdles, which is what makes it a risk to the safety of women and girls.… Read the rest

There are at least two separate forms of manipulation in this here Lemkin Institute for Genocide Protection – the “Institute” that issued a “statement” three weeks ago that said gender critical feminists are genocidal Nazis. One of them is calling themselves an “institute” when they’re not what most of us think of an institute as being. I said in my first post on the subject that I couldn’t find out much about the “institute” but I didn’t think it was a couple of teenagers and their phones, but the joke’s on me, it turns out to be pretty much that, except the “teenagers” are academics old enough to know better.

The other is helping themselves to the name of Raphael … Read the rest

Originally a comment by latsot on Don’t call me a basket case.

I found the forbidding of ‘blind’ as in ‘blind study’ especially zogborst.

As a disabled person and wheelchair user I find that words don’t matter nearly so much as attitude. Blind people know they’re blind and if I ever forget I can’t walk it’s going to hurt when my face bounces off the deck. We’re generally not shy about our disabilities or embarrassed about them. We’ll joke about them and are happy for others to do the same providing, as tigger said, the intent is humour rather than abuse. My friend Henrietta, who some of you might know from Twitter, is paralysed from the chest down and … Read the rest

Wikipedia on the Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities:

The Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities (AIPG), formerly the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation,^[1] is a non-profit organization devoted to genocide and mass atrocity prevention.^[2][3] The institute is best known for its Raphael Lemkin Seminar for Genocide Prevention held annually at the Auschwitz concentration camp,^[4][5][6][7] and for serving as the technical secretariat of the Latin American Network for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention.^[8]

So. It looks to me as if the “Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention” has helped itself to the prestige of the above mentioned institute and … Read the rest

Aha – I wonder if they found that intern.

I wonder if it did find that intern, and then let that intern write a statement for them. I wonder I wonder.

It seems like awfully quick work, but who knows, maybe they’re just efficient that way.… Read the rest

Here’s a funny thing – the Lemkin Institute is on Facebook, with all of 781 followers, and almost no activity. One like per post – maybe put there by the person who posted. Even funnier than that – its “statement” calling feminist women genocidal is not there. Why not?

As people at Ovarit are saying*, the statement reads as if it were written by a trans ideology zealot. It certainly does not read as if it were written by a reasonable adult campaigner for human rights and against genocide…but then again that so often applies to the ACLU and NOW and other rights organizations these days, so who knows if it means some rogue actor wrote it or … Read the rest

Now here, from nine days ago, is the Lemkin Institute talking about something concrete and specific:

The @LemkinInstitute & the Tatoyan Foundation (@atatoyan) request the int’l community to urgently respond to the recent blockades and cutting of electricity and gas to #Artsakh. These are attacks on the human rights of #Armenians & show the genocidal intentions of Azerbaijan. pic.twitter.com/NWVi9bd3qk

— Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (@LemkinInstitute) December 13, 2022

Gender critical feminists haven’t cut anyone’s electricity or access to gas, nor have we threatened to or tried to or planned to. I wonder if the Institute can make out the difference here.… Read the rest

This may be why lots of people started talking about the Lemkin Institute:

One birdbrain replied “Interested to see how they’ll deny away the *actual official genocidal prevention institute* voicing their concern over their rhetoric.” There is no such actual official institute, and if there were, this wouldn’t be it.

I’m sure “Katy” is having the best fun of his life getting people to call feminist women genocidal Nazis simply because we refuse to agree that men like “Katy” are women and our sisters and welcome in our spaces.… Read the rest

This is breathtaking. An institute for prevention of genocide equates non-belief in magic gender with actual genocide. Genocide.

I haven’t been able to find out how reputable or established or widely known the Lemkin Institute is, but I don’t think it’s just a couple of teenagers and their phones.

It issued a statement last month saying we (gender criticals) are on the way to committing genocide.

The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention voices its concern over the growing number of laws introduced in the United States that target transgender individuals and the transgender community. Anti-trans hostility in the US has become a staple of the Republican Party’s election strategy and is clearly being used to stoke voters’ fears

Originally a comment by tigger_the_wing on Don’t you call me a basket case.

As a crippled old women who isn’t confined to a wheelchair, but uses one if I have to walk more than a few steps (because I prefer to avoid unbearable pain and nasty falls), and who spends most of the rest of my time in bed (because, until I get a better wheelchair, it’s the only place where I can recline and raise my legs), I find the ‘confined to’ phrase ludicrous. Since I can transfer from my bed to my wheelchair, and back; and from my wheelchair to and from the toilet, the shower, and my vehicle, I don’t regard myself as ‘confined to’ anything.… Read the rest

Florida judge got creative:

Former Hillsborough county circuit judge Jared Smith denied a 17-year-old girl access to an abortion in January, citing her low school grades as justification for his ruling that she lacked the maturity to make the decision for herself.

So she’s not mature enough to decide to have an abortion but she is mature enough to push out a baby??? And then raise it?

It’s a massive catch-22, isn’t it. You’re too young and clueless to decide not to have a baby, so you have to have a baby you don’t want to have, which will obviously go very well for the baby and the mother and anyone who may be around to pick up the … Read the rest

Non-binary government boffin Sam Brinton got lucky with that second stolen bag:

The nonbinary Biden administration official facing up to five years in prison for allegedly stealing luggage in Minnesota now faces up to 10 years in prison for stealing another bag in Nevada, according to a police report obtained by Fox News Digital.

Samuel Brinton — who has served as the Energy Department’s (DOE) deputy assistant secretary for spent fuel and waste disposition since June — allegedly stole a suitcase with a total estimate worth of $3,670 on July 6 at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas, according to a declaration filed by a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) detective on Wednesday. The bag contained jewelry

Thanks to latsot we can have hours of fun picking apart Stanford’s ElimiNation of HarmFul LangUage InItIaTive, which is “a multi-phase, multi-year project to address harmful language in IT at Stanford.” I guess all the other bits of Stanford will go right on having harmful language.

It’s not that I don’t think there is such a thing as harmful language (although I wouldn’t use the word “harmful” to characterize it). It’s that…oh well, you’ll see.

At the end of the intro to the thingy on harmful language there’s a WARNING all in bold that the language ahead is…harmful. Or offensive. It fails to warn that some of it could be both. Proceed at your own pace, it says. Race … Read the rest

The BBC starts with a man who says he is a woman.

The diamond grass of Cathkin Park is glinting in the winter sun as Ellie Gomersall reflects on something intensely personal – her identity. It is a bitterly beautiful December day on the south side of Glasgow and Ms Gomersall, 23, is telling us about “coming out” as a woman.

You can’t “come out” as a woman. Coming out is a lesbian/gay thing, and that in turn is because being lesbian or gay has not always been socially acceptable, to put it mildly. It’s also, I suppose, because the majority is straight, so the working assumption about people is generally that they’re straight, so “coming out” is making … Read the rest

Word it carefully now. Very very carefully. Take instructions from the BBC:

MSPs are debating final changes to controversial gender recognition reforms. The Scottish government legislation is aimed at simplifying and speeding up the process for trans people to change their legally recognised gender.

See how it’s done? The Beeb just assumes, with “the legislation is aimed at simplifying and speeding up the process,” that the “process” of declaring yourself the other sex should be simplified and sped up. Why? When declaring yourself the other sex is nonsensical, and when we’ve had years to expose all the ways this sort of declaring impinges on the rights of other people, especially women – why breezily assume that it needs … Read the rest

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on The symbols of what did you say?

From where I sit, it is the women who support this legislation who find themselves voiceless:…

Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit. You must be sitting somewhere with your head up your ass because I can see FROM A WHOLE FUCKING OCEAN AWAY that women who have tried to question or slow down this fait accomplit have been demonized, vilified, threatened and, yes, silenced.

safe in the knowledge that the bill had a parliamentary majority. It would pass, and so too in time would the fractious debate.

What fractious debate? Your side was all “NO DEBATE!” You couldn’t afford full and open discussion. Trans activism never can. … Read the rest

Jeremy Clarkson broke a record:

Jeremy Clarkson’s Sun newspaper column, in which he said he “hated” the Duchess of Sussex, has become the Independent Press Standards Organisation’s most complained about article, the regulator has said.

Ipso said the piece, which was removed from the Sun’s website on Monday at Clarkson’s request, had received more than 17,500 complaints as of 9am on Tuesday.

…

The number surpassed the total number of complaints the media regulator received in 2021, 14,355.

A whole year’s worth of complaints. That’s impressive.

More than 60 cross-party MPs have written to the Sun’s editor, Victoria Newton, to demand an apology and “action taken” against Clarkson for the column where he said Meghan should be paraded through