Congress is debating an energy bill this week and there’s lots of screaming and shouting about the threat – or lack of a threat – from human-induced climate change. One thing we always here from climate change worriers is that America’s emissions of CO2 will lead to disasters–maybe not in the US, since we’re rich and we can deal with problems, but in poor, flood prone areas like Bangladesh.

But if this news report is any indication, Bangladeshis have bigger problems to worry about than global warming leading to rising tides:

” A 24-year-old man was sentenced to death in Bangladesh for throwing acid on his nine-year-old bride, disfiguring and blinding her for life, prosecution lawyers said on Tuesday….
The Acid Survivors Foundation, a charity working for the acid victims, said the use of acid in domestic violence is on the rise in Bangladesh. The victims of acid attacks are usually women and girls…
Child marriages are banned in Bangladesh under the law, but the practice is nevertheless prevalent mostly in rural villages.”

Acid attacks. Nine year old brides. Ah, the joys of pre-industrial village life. And Congress is worried about it getting two degrees warmer?