Whites more to blame for 'global warming'?

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This is taking the blame game way over the edge. This is shaping up to be used as a field day for trial lawyers - mark my words.

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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39577

A new study released by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (http://www.cbcfinc.org/) 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 (http://www.rprogress.org/), 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 (http://www.house.gov/jefferson/), D-La., chairman of the CBCF. "We are seeing its effects all around us."

The new report for the CBCF has three main findings: 1. America's black population will be disproportionately burdened by the health effects of global warming 2. Blacks are less responsible for contributing to global warming than other Americans; and 3. Policies designed to mitigate global warming can generate large health and economic benefits for blacks, depending on their implementation.
"Time and again, the world's leading atmospheric scientists have warned us about the devastating impact of climate change," said Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (http://www.house.gov/ebjohnson/), D-Texas. "We now have irrefutable proof of its impact on our economy, our way of life, our health and our children."

The study alleges 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."


It 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.


"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 concentrations of blacks.


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 (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37612).


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 (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=21847) 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," Bellamy 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."













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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.
This was the stupidest thing I had ever read... until I read the rest of the article.
2. Blacks are less responsible for contributing to global warming than other Americans;
Well duh, there's less black people than white people, American Indians, Hispanics, and Asians combined - duh, duh, duh. :banghead:

And yet, after all the whining - I still don't see these particular people presenting a solution - instead they'd rather waste their time finding new things for black people to complain about white people doing to them... :loser:

Thankfully, the article ended with fractionally less stupidity (at least there wasn't finger pointing involved) :2cents:

I found these two statements to be the most interesting...

The study alleges 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."
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.

So if black households emit less air pollution - then why is the air around 70% of black households so polluted? Could it be perhaps that they live near air-pollution factories owned by evil white men? Is it that air pollution is attracted to black households? Or perhaps is it because of all the Cadillac Escalades in these neighborhoods? :grinno:
The world may never know...

I'm white. It is not my fault that a disproportionate amount of African Americans live in low-income/high pollution areas. There is nothing I can do. I cannot force ANYONE, regardless of race, to attend college, to secure a good job and thus have the means by which to relocate. I most certainly do not go out of my way to produce greenhouse gasses in an effort to increase the discomfort of minority populations. In closing, I am white and I just can't win...

....a disproportionate amount of African Americans live in low-income/high pollution areas... That's the guts of it. It's a socio-economic problem.

I can't fathom how they worked out that they emit less greenhouse gases though. Maybe it's a diet thing :cwm27:

If you use gas/electricity...hell if your not amish, your as much to blame for the pollution as any other average human

This article is staggeringly offensive, in so many ways.
There are many other things that could be quantified in terms of race. It's a hazardous precident to do so. For example, one could say that since blacks make up a disproportionatly large number of prison inmates and welfare recipients, they are receiving a disproportionaly high number of federal and state tax dollars, therefore, black people are taking money from white people.
See? There would be no end to the racist and divisive finger pointing.

OMFG...I somewhat regret clicking on this thread now...my IQ points dropped with that, that - DUMBEST of articles.

Another study - of ignorance - disguised as an intellectual "research".

This shows the level of fucking arrogance among people trying " TRYING" the start something.

This is the most ridiculious piece of shit fact finding crap I have ever read....

This insults not just myself, but anyone who reads it....

That is a beutiful piece of modern ignorance.

Its not only raciest, its also globaly unaware.

Have the "african americans" or black people living in America forgotten about the black people else where in the world? Are they uneffected, or do they not count because they are not "african american"

Have the "african americans" or black people living in America forgotten about the black people else where in the world? Are they uneffected, or do they not count because they are not "african american"
As I've said here before, I used to be a Corrections Officer.

I've done it before, where I overhear African-American inmates talk about racism in America and such, and I'll stop, and ask them what they think about Apartheid...and I get the "what?"

Granted, the convicts in there can hardly represent the rest of the African-American people, and there ARE some very educated ones in prison, but it just shows, that sometimes the loudest ones are the most ignorant.

I didn't even want to get on the racism side of the article, I just saw the groundwork being laid for lawsuits down the line. If some junk science can be widely accepted (regardless of actual evidence/proof) someone will use it in court.













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I didn't even want to get on the racism side of the article, I just saw the groundwork being laid for lawsuits down the line. If some junk science can be widely accepted (regardless of actual evidence/proof) someone will use it in court.

Right on. Thanks also for the post, which lead to much chuckling from der werwolf.

I have nothing to contribute to this thread except to say I have been away on vacation for a week and I missed stuff like this from you guys.
:)

at the end of the day, white people got it easier in America then black people. or other non-American people for that matter...

if you disagree, why arent American politicians diverse in race.

Because the whites are still the majority race in America. If the other races would band together and cooperate there would be more diversity. There is more diversity now than there was even 10 years ago. Also Non-Americans can't run for office.