This sure seems a bit racist to me
climate change joke
Last week’s heat wave was a miserable, deadly, wake-up call.
While the details continue to emerge and the human cost is still being tallied, we know that hundreds of people lost their lives in the Northwest during the heat wave, one that climate scientists say is a manifestation of climate change. In Oregon alone, the early count of heat deaths — which are likely to rise — exceeded the total from the last 20 years combined.
We all felt the impacts of the scorching heat, but it was not felt equally.
According to research published in Nature Communications, people of color are disproportionately exposed to urban heat. Landlocked areas with high amounts of concrete and low numbers of trees and shade are known as “heat islands.†The researchers found that in nearly all urban areas, the average person of color — regardless of income — lived in an area with higher heat island intensity.
Local research on the same phenomenon done by the city of Seattle and King County found that the differences between the hottest and coolest parts of comparable Seattle areas measured at the same time can differ by up to a shocking 23 degrees, due to disparities such as tree canopy and location of industrial areas.
Unsurprisingly, the areas with the hottest heat islands are also the areas where people of color are concentrated. They also correlate to areas with the highest environmental health disparities as well. My Rainier Beach neighborhood, for example, has the highest possible health disparity score of 10.
It is simply great that climate cultists always think that “communities of color”, meaning blacks, primarily, are always in more dire circumstances than anyone else, and need Government to fix everything. Of course, these CoC always seem to be stuck in crummy parts of Democratic Party run cities, like Seattle. And the solution is always the same government that stuck these people in these supposedly bad situations.
The interesting part here is that what is being discussed is not “global warming/climate change’, but the Urban Heat Island effect (UHI), whereby areas will be artificially hotter than others. Get outside Seattle into the suburbs and rural areas and the temperatures will go way down. Get into the crap parts of town and the temperature skyrockets. UHI.
Many of these disparities can be traced back to the legacy of housing segregation, neighborhood redlining and environmental racism, such as placing polluting businesses in communities of color. One study found that formerly redlined neighborhoods in nearly every city were hotter than those that were not redlined, according to NPR. Consequently, Scientific American reported that extreme heat and air pollution are a leading cause of death for communities of color.
Which Party was doing this? Which Party runs these cities?
