This isn't the first time I've seen this headline. I know I bookmarked it before, but never got around to writing about it. Now it's the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's turn to drag out this dubious claim. Is there anything climate change can't do? Now it's being blamed for an increase in child marriages "as families struggle to survive."
Climate change becoming a major driver of child marriage across Asia and the Pacific as families struggle to survive https://t.co/xEpIXoJTvc
— Dr Liz Allen (@DrDemography) July 9, 2026
Claire Campbell reports for ABC:
While climate change is not believed to be increasing the number of tropical storms worldwide, scientists and meteorologists say a warmer atmosphere and rising sea temperatures and levels are increasing their intensity, and the impact they have on communities.
After a natural disaster in Bangladesh, child marriages can surge by up to 39 per cent, according to the International Rescue Committee.
South Asia, one of the most vulnerable regions to the impacts of climate change, accounts for most of the world's child marriages.
Bangladesh has the highest rate in Asia according to Plan International, with more than 50 per cent of girls married before they turn 18.
OK, who is actually claiming this, though?
New research from Plan International and the University of Technology Sydney found girls were disproportionately affected by climate change across Asia and the Pacific.
The full report, which is due out later this year, looks at how climate-related shocks and environmental stressors are shaping adolescent girls' life trajectories in Bangladesh, Nepal and the Solomon Islands.
What is Plan International, and what do they know about "climate change"? It sounds like weather, and it also sounds like a bunch of B.S.
An entire article on child marriage in a 91% Muslim country (funny how that works), and not a single mention of Islam being a factor.
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) July 11, 2026
But yeah, more money to NGOs or something. pic.twitter.com/ACc9QDUAR0
You're insane.
— JWF (@JammieWF) July 11, 2026
Whoever wrote this trash is a very, very sick person, and must never be taken seriously.
— RC (@WeekendGamerTX) July 10, 2026
You are disgusting. This has nothing to do with climate change and everything to do with a vile culture that functions on the writings of a pedophile. You are as sick as they are.
— UnimpressedButSeriously (@but_seriously05) July 11, 2026
So... the already existing customs and kinship dynamics are not the "major driver", but climate change is, huh?
— Avesta (@__Avesta______) July 11, 2026
And you wonder why people have lost trust in "the science"?
To make this theory work, it would need child marriage to be a new or vastly increased phenomenon in this part of the world. The problem is it’s not.
— Teri (@Teri5hty) July 11, 2026
I have read a lot of stupid stuff on the site, but this idiocy is in its own tier.
— Carlos Peligro (@CarlosPl0311) July 11, 2026
Apparently global warming only occurs in certain countries that culturally allow child brides, while declining elsewhere. Amazing...
— OlWanderer (@Olmanswamp) July 11, 2026
A. I don't believe climate change has anything to do with child marriage, which has been going on for 1300 years.
— John Galt (@D78707D) July 11, 2026
B. The argument that climate change is a major driver is about the dumbest thing I've heard today. But the day is early, so who knows?
“Wow, it’s really raining buckets out there. Guess I ought to go marry the eight year-old next-door,” said no normal person ever.
— Jack Bauer after dark 🇺🇸🇮🇱 (@JackBauerAD) July 11, 2026
Supposed academics trying to rationalize that are just as sick.
This is at a level of humiliation that even I cannot understand why you would post this. Islam has been around since the 6th century with their diabolical child marriage custom. Unbelievable stupidity of a level of stupidity that is unmatched.
— Earl Scott (@rightnGA) July 11, 2026
A group of NGO's blaming climate change (which is not the driver of child marriages - the liberals are just too afraid to name it) to ask for more donations because billions in aid couldn't solve it so let's ask taxpayers to fund more of "research" work.
— Arsalan William (@arsalanwilliam) July 11, 2026
So why were they doing it before climate change started?
— John Koone (@koone_john) July 11, 2026
First, climate change is a hoax. Let's see if this upcoming report can definitively link "climate change" to a cyclone that led to a girl named Runa marrying a man she had never met at age 15.
The NGOs are worried that this year's El Niño will "intensify" the risk of child marriage in the country.
I searched the piece for "Islam" and "Muslim" and came up empty.
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