Posted on 07/21/2004 11:01:02 PM PDT by delchiante
MINORITY REPORT Global warming 'to kill more blacks than whites' Study: African-Americans at greater risk, but less responsible for climate change
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: July 22, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Joe Kovacs © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
A new study released by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation suggests rising temperatures will kill more black citizens than whites in the U.S., while claiming African-Americans are less responsible than others for causing so-called "global warming."
The research, conducted by Oakland, Calif.-based group Redefining Progress, is being billed as the first-ever comprehensive examination of the health and economic impact of climate change on the black population.
"We are long past the point where global warming is considered a myth," said U.S. Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., chairman of the CBCF. "We are seeing its effects all around us."
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The new report for the CBCF has three main findings:
America's black population will be disproportionately burdened by the health effects of global warming;
Blacks are less responsible for contributing to global warming than other Americans; and
Policies designed to mitigate global warming can generate large health and economic benefits for blacks, depending on their implementation.
Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson
"Time and again, the world's leading atmospheric scientists have warned us about the devastating impact of climate change," said Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Texas. "We now have irrefutable proof of its impact on our economy, our way of life, our health and our children."
The study claims more than 160,000 deaths annually can already be attributed to climate change across the world, and that figure is likely to increase unless action is taken to try to stop any further heat-up.
More than 70 percent of blacks live in urban areas which are in violation of federal air pollution standards, according to the report. Thus, more blacks than whites would likely be affected by higher concentrations of toxins in the air.
"African-Americans are nearly three times as likely to be hospitalized or killed by asthma as whites, with climate change expected to increase the incidence of asthma in the general population," the study says.
The research also says at the present time, blacks are more likely to die during extreme heat events.
Miami residents open water hydrants to keep cool (courtesy CNN)
"The most direct health effect of climate change will be intensifying heat waves that selectively impact poor and urban populations," according to the study, noting cities like New York, Detroit, Chicago and Philadelphia have large numbers of blacks.
Meanwhile, the study says responsibility for the problem does not lie primarily with blacks, stating, "African-American households emit 20 percent less carbon dioxide than white households. Historically, this difference was even higher."
Despite the study's claims, the idea the Earth is heating up is hardly a universal belief.
Four months ago, a NASA-funded study reported some climate forecasts might be exaggerating estimations of global warming.
The U.S. space agency said the models possibly are overestimating the amount of water vapor entering the atmosphere as the Earth warms.
The theory many scientists work with says the Earth warms in response to human emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, causing more water to evaporate from the ocean into the atmosphere.
WorldNetDaily has also reported that Dr. Fred Singer, professor emeritus of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia, maintains there has been little or no warming since about 1940.
"Any warming from the growth of greenhouse gases is likely to be minor, difficult to detect above the natural fluctuations of the climate, and therefore inconsequential," Singer wrote in a climate-change essay. "In addition, the impacts of warming and of higher CO2 levels are likely to be beneficial for human activities and especially for agriculture.
Just this week, the London Telegraph reported on a study by Swiss and German scientists suggesting increased radiation from the sun –not human activity – was to blame for climate changes.
"The sun is in a changed state," said Dr. Sami Solanki of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Gottingen, Germany. "It is brighter than it was a few hundred years ago and this brightening started relatively recently – in the last 100 to 150 years."
The research adds credence to the beliefs of British professor David Bellamy, president of the London-based Conservation Foundation.
"Global warming – at least the modern nightmare version – is a myth," he told the Telegraph. "I am sure of it and so are a growing number of scientists. But what is really worrying is that the world's politicians and policy-makers are not.
"Instead, they have an unshakeable faith in what has, unfortunately, become one of the central credos of the environmental movement: humans burn fossil fuels, which release increased levels of carbon dioxide – the principal so-called greenhouse gas – into the atmosphere, causing the atmosphere to heat up. They say this is global warming, I say this is poppycock."
Editor's note: The new CBCF report on climate change can be read here in PDF format.
http://www.cbcfinc.org/pdf/Climate_Change.pdf
World ends, blacks hit hardest...
I would like to apologize on behalf of white people everywhere for creating this global warming mess that threatens all those inner city blacks. Please forgive us. We will try and do better. How much money does Jesse want from us for new air conditioners for everyone? Just let us know and the check will be in the mail.
Heck, I thought the latest rant from those saddled with the mental condition called liberalism was that "global warming" was leading to a new ice age.
Liberal rants are so contradictory it is incredible.
Of course, if the world ends, it hurts blacks more because, under the liberal mantra, they have less to lose.
LOL
Who would have thunk that the root word of studious and the term "Black Caucus" would appear in the same sentence?
Envirowhackoism and race baiting. Two cowpies for the price of one.
Barf.
Yup - if black Americans continue to serve as step'n fetchits for elite leftists like Senator and Ma Ketchup, Chappaquidick Fats, and Lord Hee-Haw of Arkansas, the po' folks will positively suffocate from all them hot air emissions and noxious fumes. Talk about workplace safety!!
Joe Kovacs - sigh - African Blacks aren't going to be killed by Global Warming. They are dying by the thousands as we speak because of your failed socialist policies.
If you were really concerned about blacks, you'd dump the Junk Science and promote Liberty in Africa.
Coward.
The CBCF has too much time and money on its hands. They must have had a roundtable discussion on this issue around a cesspool because the gases got to them. Somebody check their brain waves because I think they were in the sun too long and some of those waves must have straight lined.
Pleeaassee tell me this is a joke.
There is no such thing as global warming...so we are all safe.
This IS a joke.
I havn't stopped laughing since I started reading about this report.
And as it now seems most if not all of the miniscule warming that has been measured is due to natural cyclic heating up of the sun, there is no way to blame that on inner city poor.
We have to blame it on Cain, aka G.W. Bush.
This "report" reads like it came from The Onion. It did, didn't it?
If the content of this POS is actually believed by anyone, they need to be locked away for the good of the nation.
Yeah, but where's the money in that?
I've read it a few times myself. Truly barf inducing.
Wait a minute, isn't barf a direct cause of global warming???
GLOBAL WARMING!!!! GLOBAL WARMING!!! WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE AND IT'S ALL GEORGE BUSH'S FAULT!!!!
(chicken little alert)
(chicken little alert)
Hehehehe.
Yeah, amazing how a high pigment level makes one more vulnerable to hot weather.
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