Here's some info that may make those anti-climate change guys re-think their stance: There are more girls than boys being born in the Arctic because of high levels of man-made chemicals in the mothers’ bloodstream, according to an article in Guardian of the UK.

Studies have been carried out on the Arctic Inuit nomads who are reporting as many as a 2:1 girl-boy ratio in Greenland. And in some villages, only girls are being born.

Lars-Otto Reierson, executive secretary for Amap, said: "We knew that the levels of man-made chemicals were accumulating in the food chain, and that seals, whales and particularly polar bears were getting a dose a million times higher than that existing in plankton, and that this could be toxic to humans who ate these higher animals. What was shocking was that they were also able to change the sex of children before birth."

The sex balance of the human race - historically a slight excess of boys over girls - has recently begun to change. A paper published in the US National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences earlier this year said that in Japan and the US there were 250,000 boys fewer than would have been expected had the sex ratio existing in 1970 remained unchanged. The paper was unable to pin down a cause for the new excess of girls over boys.

The Arctic scientists have discovered that many of the babies born in Russia are premature and the boys are far smaller than girls. Possible links between the pollutants and high infant mortality in the first year of life is also being investigated.

Also, male embryos are more susceptible to miscarriage than female embryos. Boys are simply more fragile in the womb than girls.  

I hate to use a scare tactic, but the environment is easily the most important issue of our time. Here’s another way to get some men to park their Hummers: Clean up your act or you’ll go extinct!