Climate Change Causes Increase in Child Brides

Blend a dogmatic ignorance of science, data, culture and history with a toxic dollop of sophomoric political correctness and Voila!:

Climate change becoming a major driver of child marriage across Asia and the Pacific by Claire Campbell Australian Broadcast Corporation July 9, 2026

Hat tip: Powerlineblog

Twelve-year-old girls are being sold as wives more than usual because of climate change in Bangladesh. This, even though average annual rainfall has been steady or dropping for decades and even though deaths from major storms have plummeted over the last 40 years. Despite the long-established certainty of monsoon flooding, the continued gross negligence in preparations is presumably also due to climate change. Temperatures may have increased by as much as 0.5 C on average over the last half century in Bangladesh, which does not appear to have made the slightest measurable difference in either extreme or normal weather patterns. The most recent monsoon has caused widespread damage and hardship, though presumably unlike all previous monsoon-driven flooding over the centuries, this one was caused by anthropogenic climate change. Hence, more little girls needed to be put on the market.

So a non-existent change in climate has caused men (all of whom happen to belong to an unnamed religion, and yes, there is not the slightest hint in the article that this practice is a uniquely Islamic barbarism) to "cope" with the effects of climate change by selling little girls at a greater rate than normal. Clearly, we can infer that this is the fault of the SUV owner and non-socialist Western governments who must bear all culpability.

This could be the single dumbest article you will encounter this year.