Global Warming Is Racist

"When you look at the trends and put them all together, it's undisputable that the sea levels are rising," says Ansje Miller, director of the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative (EJCC). "Warmer seas mean more intense hurricanes. You're going to have intense flooding like we have never seen before."

Undisputable ? These idiots have yet to actually provide any proof that sea levels are rising. It would seem to be a pretty easy thing to prove if it was actually happening.

That's bad news, especially for African Americans. Citing Katrina as a case-in-point, some environmentalists say global warming impacts minorities and the disadvantaged harder than other groups. If global warming gets worse, many African-American communities will be more vulnerable to breathing ailments, insect-carried diseases and heat-related illness and death. But asking Black folks to give up gas-guzzling SUV's and other bling is a tough sell.

"It has been ingrained in our heads that to be anything, you must have everything," says EJCC steering committee member Nia Robinson. "Because some of us have a big car and a nice house, people aren't seeing that racism still exists. But Katrina showed that racism is alive and well in America. Now that people have that idea, I think we're in a really critical stage to organize, educate and mobilize people."

Only kooks believe that Katrina and it's aftermath had anything to do with racism.

Relatively, Blacks are environmental Good Samaritans. Per capita, we emit approximately 20 percent less carbon dioxide than Whites well below 2020 targets set by the U.S. Climate Stewardship Act. Not only do we use more energy-conserving public transportation, we spend considerably less per capita on energy-intensive material goods.

Yet Blacks are exposed to worse air pollution than Whites in every major metropolitan area. Some charge that the Bush administration has made matters worse by creating new policies, like the Clear Skies Act and the Healthy Forest Initiative, that allow utilities and industries to pollute more. President Bush enraged environmentalists when he opted out of the Kyoto protocol global warming treaty, saying it would harm the U.S. economy.

But they give a pass to Clinton who was also against Kyoto and they totaly ignore the fact that congress must approve any treaty before the President can do anything.

Critics say the result of these policies could be catastrophic. "By mid-century, we're looking at the entire Antarctic ice shelf melting," Miller says. "That could send warmer water throughout which will have a freezing effect in the Northern European countries. We're already looking at a number of low-lying areas being completely submerged by sea-level rise. It's kind of scary."

It's kinda scary that someone would be stupid enough to believe that nonsense.