Roger Caiazza sent me the email below. It speaks for itself.
Subject: EPA Report Shows Disproportionate Impacts of Climate Change on Socially Vulnerable Populations
EPA Report Shows Disproportionate Impacts of Climate Change on Socially Vulnerable Populations in the United States
WASHINGTON (Sept. 2, 2021) — A new EPA analysis released today shows that the most severe harms from climate change fall disproportionately upon underserved communities who are least able to prepare for, and recover from, heat waves, poor air quality, flooding, and other impacts. EPA’s analysis indicates that racial and ethnic minority communities are particularly vulnerable to the greatest impacts of climate change. Climate Change and Social Vulnerability in the United States: A Focus on Six Impact Sectors is one of the most advanced environmental justice studies to date that looks at how projected climate change impacts may be distributed across the American public.
“The impacts of climate change that we are feeling today, from extreme heat to flooding to severe storms, are expected to get worse, and people least able to prepare and cope are disproportionately exposed,” said EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan “This report punctuates the urgency of equitable action on climate change. With this level of science and data, we can more effectively center EPA’s mission on achieving environmental justice for all.”
EPA’s new, peer-reviewed report shows the degree to which four socially vulnerable populations— defined based on income, educational attainment, race and ethnicity, and age—may be more exposed to the highest impacts of climate change. The report quantifies six types of impacts, including those to health from changes in air quality and extreme temperature, disruptions to weather-exposed workers, and flooding threats to property.
Key findings of the report include:
- That Black and African American individuals are projected to face higher impacts of climate change for all six impacts analyzed in this report, compared to all other demographic groups. For example, with 2°C (3.6°F) of global warming, Black and African American individuals are:
- 34% more likely to currently live in areas with the highest projected increases in childhood asthma diagnoses. This rises to 41% under 4°C (7.2°F) of global warming.
- 40% more likely to currently live in areas with the highest projected increases in extreme temperature related deaths. This rises to 59% under 4°C of global warming.
- That Hispanics and Latinos have high participation in weather-exposed industries, such as construction and agriculture, which are especially vulnerable to the effects of extreme temperatures. With 2°C (3.6°F) of global warming, Hispanic and Latino individuals are 43% more likely to currently live in areas with the highest projected reductions in labor hours due to extreme temperatures. With regards to transportation, Hispanic and Latino individuals are about 50% more likely to currently live in areas with the highest estimated increases in traffic delays due to increases in coastal flooding.
This significant study represents an important milestone in understanding the future impacts of climate change on different American populations, especially under resourced communities. Due to data and modeling limitations, this study is limited to the contiguous U.S. Future work will enhance both the coverage of other important areas, such as Hawaii and Alaska, and will explore additional impact sectors and measures of social vulnerability.
Today’s analysis will help further efforts being taken by the Biden Administration across the Federal government to advance environmental justice and to address the disproportionate impacts that climate change is having on vulnerable communities. During his first weeks in office, President Biden issued Executive Order 14008 on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad, which established the first-ever White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council, the White House Environmental Justice Interagency Council, and the Justice40 Initiative. Through the Justice40 Initiative, the Federal government is, for the first time in history, working to ensure that at least 40-percent of climate and clean energy investment benefits flow to disadvantaged communities.
Access the report: https://www.epa.gov/cira/social-vulnerability-report
Information about climate change: https://www.epa.gov/climate-change
Information about environmental justice: https://www.epa.gov/environmentaljustice
Look how happy the girl is feeling in her smock and jeans
Look how happy the boys are, feeling in her smock and jeans…
And so obviously photoshopped too!
She looks like a white supremacist to me, happy to be worshipped by people of color.
I think that’s Daenerys Stormborn of House Targaryen, “the First of Her Name, Queen of the Andals and the First Men, Protector of the Seven Kingdoms, the Mother of Dragons, the Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea, the Unburnt, the Breaker of Chains”
So… just some blonde roller derby chick, eh? That’s how they usually promote the star skaters.
You gents have never seen “Game of Thrones”?
Nope … and damned proud of it, too.
Environmental Justice? WTF does this even mean?
It means that they will apply measures to save Gaia that will hit the very people they purportedly wish to save – the hardest.
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.” ― Groucho Marx
It means nothing unless it’s allowed for in the EPA legislation. In fact the EPA has to decide it’s findings more rigoursly than the Supreme Court does without hearings and late night 1 paragraph rulings.
And socialists are never wrong and Trump is the personification of evil.
We’ve heard your spiel before.
Your head is so far up your backside its in Griff’s Colon.
It means the people at the bottom of society, in the less developed countries, the ones which contribute least to climate change, suffer the most from climate change and it is up to us to redress that.
You actually got something right, Griff!
The poor always suffer most. Well duhhh….
Current policy is “Let them eat cake, while we make energy (and thus everything else) more expensive”.
He got it partly right…. The poor will suffer as they always have, but in future, they can enjoy even further suffering under ridiculous policies based on fraudulent science that will not change the weather or the climate one tiny discernible bit. Expect much more of the Yellow Vest scenarios…IMO.
Except that nobody is “suffering from climate change.” Most are benefiting from the mild recent warmth and attendant improved, less stormy weather. Many folks ARE suffering from globalist policies, including energy poverty.
As others have asked Griff, with no answer, would you rather live in today’s world or in the depths of the little ice age?
It means the Peoples Court will be established with John Kerry as the Chief Judge. There will be no appeals…Justice will be swift and decisive …somewhat similar to the Peoples Courts in the Peoples Republic of Korea and the Peoples Republic of China. The Peoples Court will make no ruling on the best temp or CO2 level for earth.
YOU
It is up to you to redress that, since you believe it. We don’t.
Stop trying to rule the world.
Yes somehow Griff declares it’s our problem and usurps our countries sovereignty.
So we are going to address them by taking away the one thing that might have lifted them out of poverty, low cost, reliable energy.
So, why do you feel so guilty about it that you’re willing to destroy Western economies to the benefit of China just to feel better about yourself? None of this green garbage will have the slightest effect on the climate, so the only possible motivation for promoting this nonsense is guilt.
While “people at the bottom of society” may have smaller ‘carbon footprints’ per capita than the richer, they still have a large impact in aggregate. I can’t think of any so-called environmental problems that wouldn’t be eliminated, or at least significantly reduced, with a much smaller population.
Maybe first we should correctly define “environmental problems”.
Well then lead the charge to a smaller population!
Populations will naturally shrink as their affluence grows. Most “environmental problems” are a mythological construct of collectivist politics.
You fool – a larger population will provide MORE PEOPLE SOLVING PROBLEMS such as you falsely see everywhere.
Progressive policies always end up creating the very thing they claim as intent to avoid.
Making affordable energy expensive only hurts the poor further. India understands this. That’s why the Indian government is pursuing a rapid build of coal fired electrical generation. They have the clarity of mind to understand what the climate scam is really about. They aren’t fooled by the bad science of the climate scam and by energy policies meant to impoverish most of the world except an elitist ruling class.
What poor countries need is fossil fuel (or Nuclear plants) to electrify their environment, deliver fresh water to their home and remove excrement like you griff from in house toilets. But the faceless cultural elite wealth holders don’t want them using up all their richbich power on demand. So they continue to suffer.
A big shout out to your central authoritarian saviors, Griff. The United Nations and WHO banned DDT, on the advice of that cultural elite (racist) Rachel Carson, to provide an assist to the mosquitos delivering malaria to African villages. That is one way to preserve natural resources. Let them die of disease and blame Global Warm…ahhh we really meant climate change all along.
How much of your payday are you willing to sacrifice in the name of climate change?
You know him … none … you have to pay it all.
A question he will never face honestly.
The denial of electricity in those underdeveloped countries prolongs their poverty. The underdeveloped countries will stay underdeveloped because of the false narrative on carbon caused climate change.
The poor have suffered far more from “climate change” politics than from any minor changes in their climates. “Climate change” economics has caused even more damage than the politics.
More socialist garbage. The poor don’t need more patronising you moron. Give them the means to lift themselves, access to energy, health and education and they’ll look after themselves
Always wrong Griff. A correction.
“The poor are always the hardest hit by climate change policy.”
An undesirable fact.
So the policies in a progressive state, such as California, should be the most beneficial to low income. Like high gasoline prices so it costs more to go to work. High electricity prices to heat or cool their homes.
Progressives have always held up the poor as the ones they wish to help, then establish policies which enrich themselves while they continue to hurt the poor.
Subsidize anything and you get more of it. Subsidize poverty and guess what?
This being based upon the unsubstantiated claims that evil wicked Free-Enterprise Capitalism has caused something terrible to happen, if you believe the UN Griffy-baby you’ll believe anything!!! Oh how are those little green men on Mars getting along??? You are as green as they come, gullible, naive, foolish, ideological, wanting to change the world, just like a teenager!!! (most of who have no idea what life is!!!)
Your last bit is totally wrong … “it is up to us to redress that”.
They don’t live in my Country and hence definitely not my problem by definition. If you are altruistic you may feel guilt about it but most of your fellow countrymen likely won’t.
Even at the last COP meeting the idea of reparations got cut with China leading the push. You may wish to ponder why China would do that.
So much more intelligent than Karl
Groucho made the world a better place.
Karl destroyed wealth on a scale not seen since Genghis Khan, and ended up killing at least as many.
He loved his champagne picnics in Hyde Park on Sunday afternoons, at least!!! The wealth re-distribution was not for the likes of his good self, only for the peasants & anyone who disagreed with his views!!!
I heard someone say this morning that Stalin said that Marx told the Russians how to destroy their previous society, but Marx didn’t tell them how to govern the new society.
Marx and marxism are all about destruction of the status quo.
I think Marx saw the ultimate Communist society as being completely self governing. The people would just behave properly because the society completely met their needs.
Marx never understood reality or human nature. That’s why his prescriptions fail so abysmally and why lies must be told to put the ideas in place.
Politics is the art of Authority without Merit. — PJ O’Rourke
Obama shakedown 3.0….it’s how they use government to fleece the plebes.
Ciaramella and Vindman are listening to your phone calls…
I wish fleecing the plebes was all the radical Democrats were doing. That used to be the way they operated, but now they have added destroying the American society and our personal freedoms to their agenda.
It doesnt mean anything. It just combines two words that have been given kneejerk positive virtue ratings.
Think ‘sustainable feminism’ or ‘transgender ecology’ or ‘blue lights matter’
It doesn’t mean anything. That’s why it’s so useful as a slogan.
Their claims are so incoherent that there is almost no possible rebuttal
Environmental Justice means, two for me and one for you.
let us make their life harder with more laws, rules, regulations. Let raise their taxes , take away their jobs and enslave them. Let us show the how much we care for them.
Take away their income and help them with approved benefits.
Infrastructure?
Environmental justice means returning the earth to is natural state that has only been corrupted by the presence of humans.
Give us lots of money……….NOW!!!!! It’s just a green version of Socialism!!!
“Environmental Justice? WTF does this even mean?”
It means the EPA is promoting causes that will increase the EPA budget. They will need more money to address these non-existent inequities they have created from their fevered imaginations.
This reads like the beginning of implementation of agenda 21, focusing on vulnerable populations, (at first) hints of restricting agriculture, paying a down tools subsidiary wage, output suffers,”costal flooding” = move em out, so are white Americans immune not to mention native Americans, or are you just indirectly effected ie your taxes and freedoms to pay for ethnic protection, I always thought America was the land of the free and to a certain extent all are welcome ,thereby offering the greatest protection anyone can offer.
It doesn’t just read like it, it is agenda 21/agenda 2030/the great reset.
The Democrats in US have a new term for it, “Build back better.”
It is meant to give them license for radical changes that will guarantee them one party rule.
They forgot to mention how much better off poor [all] people will be in our beautiful modern climate compared with the murderous cold of the recent past.
Except in the heatwaves, droughts, fires floods and flash floods…
Weather pattern always change as ever, in both directions.
You actually believe such things didn’t happen in the cooler recent past? Or are you just pretending?
or are you just that stupid?
Isn’t it obvious that he’s lying?
Demented people will often utter complete nonsense that they actually believe.
Nope. Just delusional.
(I’d put money on it ; )
But I’d also wager that his intent is to provide some pushback, to what is generally presented here, which reinforces the consensus narrative, so to speak. Such that those “we” hope will happen by, will be reminded of the dangers “we” have been portrayed as ignoring/not taking seriously, which recent/current events have been portrayed as “verifying”.
So, I asked a question that would be counterproductive to answer, and then a question that would highlight the lack of an answer, in a way that provoked suspicion that griff is lying.
He believes in hockey stick and the erasure of inconveniences like the Medieval Warm Period. A time before Mankind became fossil fuel burning sinners and CO2 levels were lower and the Earth was a Garden of Eden of no suffering.
The troll griffter refuses to go to Tony Heller’s Youtube channel where Tony has researched weather of the past which includes …flood in China in 1930s may have killed 2 million prople. Today’s weather seems almost benign compared to what has occurred in the past…while CO2 was at a lower level.
So it should. A warmer world is supposed to be a calmer world. And nobody has yet provided a shred of evidence that increased CO2 levels from the dangerously low 280ppm of the Little Ice Age (not to mention the better temperatures) have been anything but beneficial.
More people better fed from less land than ever in mankind’s history.
“The troll griffter refuses to go to Tony Heller’s Youtube channel where Tony has researched weather of the past which includes …flood in China in 1930s may have killed 2 million prople. Today’s weather seems almost benign compared to what has occurred in the past…while CO2 was at a lower level.”
Anti_Griff,
This is true!
Worst floods in World History/US +rain records
Started by metmike – May 4, 2019, 11:56 p.m.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/29362/
“Today’s weather seems almost benign compared to what has occurred in the past”
That’s true.
We can learn a lot from reading history. Alarmists should try it some time.
Oh. Griffypoo, there hasn’t been a heat wave around here in a while. Could you please send one my way? Two weeks of 80F in August do not a summer make.
i’m more and more concerned about the closet you live in, Griffypoo. You should get out once in a while… go to a tavern and lift a cold one…. something like that.
Do you refer to him as “Griffypoo” simply because he lives in that darned closet???
You mean all those events that have happened before, and the IPCC state cannot be attributed to Global Warming?
Yes, yes. That’s what he’s selling. Denying IPCC science.
You misspelled IPCC Scientology.
yeah my bad
There have always been heatwaves, droughts, fires, floods and flash floods.
Those that have been happening over the last few decades are well within the range of what has happened over the last few centuries.
Centuries??? You sure you didn’t mean millenia???
I should have mentioned that I was referring to the period that is covered by written records.
It’s utterly transparent that your marching orders are to hype every weather event on earth as being unprecedented and linked to CO2 emissions.
The reality is that we have gone through a long period of low hurricane and tornado activity, possibly associated with the slight warming that has occurred. Now if we are seeing a somewhat more active hurricane season, more in line with what was seen in the period from 1950 to 1975 when the climate was in a cooling trend, an honest and rational person might hypothesize that it’s a clue that the trend is reversing again toward cooling. But not you griff, dishonest, irrational ideologue that you are.
In order to actually believe that kind of crap, you’d have to be severely demented. I don’t rule out that you’re demented, griff, but my suspicion is that you’re more than willing to lie to push your Bolshevik agenda.
You won’t answer honestly but in which time period would you prefer to live your life?
[__] Benign low CO2 1675-1750
[__] Dangerous CO2 1950-2025
Everyone should completely ignore griff until he answers the question.
Better yet, everyone should completely ignore Griff, whether he answers the question or not. If no one responds to his foolish comments, eventually he will sulk away. And the same goes for Loydo and Simon.
DON’T FEED THE TROLLS!
Perhaps in an ideal world that would be nice Pamela, but the reality is that griff always posts and almost never reacts to any reply. He will most assuredly not sulk away if he is ignored. He would prefer that his rubbish stands unchallenged.
The purpose of replying to him is more for the sake of countering his propaganda so that the casual reader is not deceived than any attempt to communicate with the numb nuts.
Just as it’s bad advice to ignore a bully in the hope that they lose interest and move on, it’s bad advice to let troll comments stand unchallenged and have casual readers potentially think that their arguments are unassailable.
Rich, I never thought of it in those terms. I agree, he does need to be rebutted when he spouts off some of his hilariously wrong statements about wind turbines and solar panels or the ice coverage in the Arctic. Forget I said anything.
“He would prefer that his rubbish stands unchallenged.”
Oh, yeah!
All alarmists would prefer their rubbish stand unchallenged.
The sun does all that without our help
Simon?
griff doesn’t come off as a pseudo-intellectual.
More a pseudo-psychotic. Well, not so pseudo, I guess.
Earth, water, air and fire. So Griff, you and the “new” scientists basically are bringing about the rebirth of medieval alchemy. Hey, everyone, note that this is the new, improved Griff (apologies to laundry soap marketers). His new fixation on “attribution,” to sum it up, is simply repetition of the new lunatic fringe script.
They failed to scare us into blind obedience with fake hockey sticks, implausible emission scenarios, unrealistic models, calving glaciers, polar bears that wouldn’t die, etc., so the “new normal” is hyping every weather event, good, bad or indifferent, as signs of approaching thermogeddon.
Notice now that every time Griff comments, unlike the old Griff, he repeats the litany of false attributions – droughts, floods, hurricanes, and wild fires (alchemy’s Earth, water, air and fire). What a maroon.
“so the “new normal” is hyping every weather event, good, bad or indifferent, as signs of approaching thermogeddon.”
That’s exactly right.
Happily, skeptics have history to fall back on to refute such nonsense.
“Except in the heatwaves, droughts, fires floods and flash floods…:
Right Griff,
Those are some scary words and those things really do exist.
Why don’t we look at the actual observations, using the bigger picture and even model projections for an increase in greening from this modern climate optimum, if it continues.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/69258/
A workman who only owns a hammer sees all problems as a nail. Your limited view of the world likewise restricts your thinking, such as it is.
Griff,
any inspection of the Old Testament finds all of those things thousands of years ago. Then they were invoked by religious authority as Wrath of God stuff to instill belief in a religion and obeisance to that religious authority.
Nothing about human behavior has changed in the thousands of years since biblical days of end of times claims. And today we still have the floods, the droughts, the heat waves and cold and storms as our ancestors had in biblical times before we started burning fossil fuels. The religion now invoked is simply the pagan climate scam. CO2 is the demon, and we are all sinners in need of saving and redemption from our fossil fuel sins.
“Then they were invoked by religious authority as Wrath of God stuff to instill belief in a religion and obeisance to that religious authority.”
I see little in the Book to substantiate your theory, and some things which seem to me to virtually falsify it. For example: (Ecclesiastes 9:2)
“All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.”
For the most part, what we tend to think of as “natural catastrophes” and such, are treated as just that in the Book, it seems to me. And, it was very risky business to claim one was “speaking for God” without proper Authorization, so to speak ; )
Those are predictable and not new events,
Again
Which we ALL know have never, ever, happened in the four & a half billion year history of the planet called Earth!!!
Tell me Griffy-baby, have the icecaps on Mars stopped shrinking yet, after all it’s atmosphere is 95% CO2???
“For example, with 2°C (3.6°F) of global warming, Black and African American individuals are:
Ah
RCPSSP8.5 strikes again.The minorities can relax for now. The Earth is currently 0.5C cooler than five years ago.
Zealotry inevitably leads to tyranny. Once you have belief, the sophistry to justify your decisions soon follows.
Think these people need to read lord of the flies again.
Sophistry should at least have a veneer of reasonableness, so I’m not sure if their “reasoning” even rises to the level of sophistry.
Sophistry is applied to oneself. It doesn’t have to be reasonable to others
So, the real test of the validity of the EPA’s “Environmental Justice”, as regards the “Black and African Individuals are projected to face higher impacts of climate change…” would be to offer them a free ride back to Africa where they could start over and make living standard decisions for themselves. Same for Hispanics returning to Latin America. I have no doubt who would take the EPA up on this idea. Nobody.
Check the language – it’s all supposition. It’s an excuse to wield power over the little people without having any concrete proof of the reasons to do the power-wielding.
Lies, damned lies and bureaucrats.
Leading beyond authority, again. Stuff the lyin bs.
An excellent example of white privilege !
Well done Charles.
Cheers
Mike
Does anyone remember the good old days when the EPA actually did good things?
Jeez! How old are you?
When was that? I remember when EPA did not exist, I have no recollection of them ever doing anything good for anyone other than themselves. Greedy, lying sh*tbags is all they have ever been.
Early on, the EPA focused on real pollution, which needed to happen at the time, and when that was mostly solved, they needed something else to justify their existence. Whining from the political left pushed it to falsely consider CO2 a pollutant rather than the base of the food chain which transformed it from a useful organization into a useless bureaucracy hell bent on destroying our economy for no other reason than to make the political left feel better about themselves.
Yep but like all political institutions they got larger and larger 🙁
Like the rest of the 3 letter agencies
Three-letter agencies have an unfortunate tendency to evolve into four-letter words.
A video surfaced in the early 1990s. Where someone surreptitiously recorded a EPA official instructing EPA staff that his (their) method was to find someone to make an example of for other companies.
That they would use the weight of Federal Government to prosecute selected that would cause other companies to appear to do good just to avoid the attention of the EPA.
A role model that several other Federal Agencies have taken to heart.
i.e. it was unofficial policy of the EPA to wrongfully punish companies they investigate so that other companies would be frightened of crossing the EPA and EPA regulations.
EPA regulations all too often have nothing to do with legislation. The EPA was given authority to issue new regulations as they see fit. All they have to do is publish the new regulations in the Federal Register.
From all appearances, it has only gotten worse for America.
EPA feels fully justified issuing regulations for continuous incremental demands for using less water, energy and emissions.
It’s why you can no longer smell bread baking and other cooking down the street from businesses. Those odors are the result of volatiles.
It’s why toilets no longer eliminate wastes.
It’s why plumbing for water no longer allows homeowners to get water volume they need.
It’s why a whole range of products, dishwashers, washing machines, vacuum cleaners, etc. take three times as long to perform their duties.
I do not remember the EPA ever performing good for America. EPA was a parasitic agency right from their creation that focused on harming select business…
State regulations were core to reducing real pollution. State regulators were the ones who force cities to address their storm drains. Storm drain designs that formerly allowed cities and urban areas to empty raw wastes into rivers, bays and estuaries.
That was EPA doctrine from it’s inception, find one company/person and crucify them. All the while they have been lying a$$wipes who have created “laws” outside the bounds of our Constitution. Congress and State Legislatures create laws, EPA usurped that authority from the very first day of it’s existence, and NONE of them have every been held accountable for it.
EPA has always been a massive mistake, just as DeptEd has been. EPA has zero concern for environment or clean water and air, they exist totally to weild authority over people and destroy their lives as examples to others, all while making themselves rich off our tax dollars. Not a single person working for EPA could hold a real job in the real world, that is why they work for government. Parasites and scumbags.
The DeptEd was designed as a pay off to the teacher’s unions, and it has performed it’s designed function with skill and excellence.
(Of course it’s designed function has nothing to do with educating children.)
agree 100%
I seem to remember they were involved in cleaning up the Great Lakes right after the agency was created. After that not so much. I live in MI and am 65.
As I recall it was the states bordering Great Lakes that did all the actual work involved, EPA came in and grandstanded and stole the credit for what everyone else did. That is all they do, besides stealing our tax dollars.
I had already graduated from college when the EPA was founded. I don’t remember that the “EPA actually did good things.” The origin of the EPA was founded on hyperbole and unsubstantiated claims, not unlike what happened with the ‘Ozone Hole’ and AGW.
Copy that. Also in no way shape or form am I in favor of what the EPA has become. I do remember them set some type of standards to help the Great Lakes. A also recall a time when the EPA would make regulatory suggestions to congress and a debate would ensue. Now they seem to just right rules and are never challenged.
Repeal EPA authority I say.
34% more likely to currently live in areas with the highest projected increases in childhood asthma diagnoses. This rises to 41% under 4°C (7.2°F) of global warming.
40% more likely to currently live in areas with the highest projected increases in extreme temperature related deaths. This rises to 59% under 4°C of global warming.
Really? How do they know all this?
Step 1: Estimate the sector-relevant climate hazard from climate models.
Step 2: Calculate the relevant sector specific impact measure.
Step 3: Categorize the spatial data into three groups: high, medium, and low impact locations.
https://www.epa.gov/system/files/documents/2021-09/appendix-c_inputs-and-projections.pdf
As Appendix C puts it:
Given that this report estimates impacts under increasing degrees of future warming,
RCP8.5 was chosen to allow for analysis of the widest potential temperature range in the modeling approaches, while limiting the number of total scenarios necessary for running through sectoral impact models. RCP8.5 provides projections for the full range of plausible 21st century temperatures
In short, it’s total junk. It definitely isn’t plausible.
IF – and I use that word advisedly – these gubmint desk occupiers are so very worried about black and Latino populations and how they are affected by normal weather, I would very much like to know why these same desk occupiers are not addressing the more egregious effects of cold weather on those same population groups.
People tend to be outside enjoying fine warm weather, especially when it gets hot. Not everyone is huddled indoors next to an air conditioner, despite what seems to be a misunderstanding by the authors of that piece, of how seasonal weather changes affect all population groups. It is FAR more likely that in fall and winter, when the COLD season begins and sticks around, that these same population groups will be huddled indoors next to a steam radiator (if they live in an old Chicago apartment building and the landlord actually keeps it in good shape), and particularly in the kitchen because that’s where the food is. And frankly, anyone who lives in Chicago (as an example) can buy an air conditioner and set it up in a window.
Really, the people who put these things together should spend some real time in the real world of places like the south side of Chicago in Englewood and along the Dan Ryan. When the wind blows through the city in gusts right off Lake Michigan, it is the COLD that people pay attention to, especially if they’re living in those areas.
It is obvious that these very earnest prognosticators have never had to spend even one minute at a bus stop on a bitter cold winter night, wondering where the hell the bus is and what will a taxi ride cost to get home.
So this article is totally bogus, man!
The troll griffter has announced that he is leaving us…going to Africa…for CHJ…Climate Hustle Justice. The grifter will be a Mother Theresa type figure…mainly raising millions of dollars …the poor?….not so much
I thought he was in for his end of summer briefing – for griff (alone) it was such a hot one.
Climate harms those too stupid to adapt. We are able to adapt to conditions, when government shuts the f**k up and leaves us alone. EPA kills more people every year than the climate ever has. EPA is enemy of America and the human race and we need to treat them as such.
No matter what it is, it’s going to impact women and minorities the most. That’s been the line since at least the 60’s.
“World ends at 8:49 pm tonight. Women and minorities hardest hit. Film at 11:00”
Bad joke on the country. Just global warming activists in govt. Solved air and water pollution years ago, yet the budget for this leviathan just keep growing. Disband EPA.
What a wagonload of horse puckey…
Looks like the despots think their standard charge of “racism” can be used to advance their Marxists goals using energy/environment as an excuse. Not a surprise. Lairs are going to lie.
So the climate change cult uses taxpayer funds to….what?
Im certain this violates the Establishment Clause of the United States Constitution, but who cares as long as federal employees can feel good about themselves, suckle at the Taxpayers teat and Witness for Gia and Baal.
I smell Class Action in the water.
Latest climate model runs suggest left-handed people will be affected worse…
That’s because left-handed people are more likely to live in poverty than right-handed people, have less access to basic human rights like the ability to freely move and acquire land for the left-handed, and face systematic violence that escalates during periods of instability.
Sinister stuff.
I see what you did there!
There is nothing new in this, EPA and “Environmental Justice” go back before the Clinton presidency.
An article in 1998 by David Friedman entitled The “Environmental Racism” Hoax, described the background, (The American Enterprise. vol. 9, no- 6, November/December 1998)
“Environmental justice” entered the activist playbook after a failed 1982 effort to block a hazardous-waste landfill in a predominantly black North Carolina county. The General Accounting Office (GAO) was asked to investigate whether noxious environmental risks were disproportionately sited in minority communities. A year later, the GAO said that they were. Superfund and similar toxic dumps, it appeared, were disproportionately located in non-white neighborhoods.”
With the advent of the Clinton-Gore administration, Al Gore’s former staffer Carol Browner was brought in as EPA Administrator and the issue of “Environmental Justice” was given full prominence. In 1994, Clinton issued an executive order, directing that every federal agency make environmental justice part of its mission.
Fast forward to the Obama administration and the mantle was taken up by Lisa Jackson, although Carol Browner was there as Director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy to point her in the right direction.
Soon after taking office, Jackson spoke at the annual conference of the National Association of Black Journalists, “It’s necessary, she said, to make clear to people suffering immediate economic distress the relationship between “traditional civil rights and social justice issues” and environmental justice.”
In January 2012, In a speech at the EPA Observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, she said, Today we continue to take direct inspiration from Dr. King, especially in our fight for environmental justice. Environmental justice is one of my top priorities for my time at the EPA, and it is something we are working to include in each and every initiative and decision the agency makes.”
Now the EPA Is Back…
Check out “Lisa P Jackson – EPA Administrator: Fulfilling the UN Mission”
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/epa_un_mission.pdf
The P should be removed from the EPA.
Urine right!
And the first 7 letters from Environmental
By this reasoning these same vulnerable communities also suffer disproportionately from higher taxes, more intrusive government, lack of policing, and COVID-19 lockdowns. But those are all policies favored by leftists. Sauce for the goose is also sauce for the gander.
It has repeatedly been demonstrated that “environmental justice” gets the correlation backwards. Polluting industries do not locate where minorities live, rather since housing prices are lower near polluting industries, minority populations whose incomes are lower live where the housing is cheaper and hence live where the industry already exists.
Also, the relationship between asthma and air pollution is flawed because asthma has increased as air pollution has decreased. It us also ridiculous to correlate asthma to a CO2 increase. This isn’t even bad science.
It doesn’t even need to correlate for halfwits like griff to claim causation.
The griff process:
1) observe something unfortunate
2) scream that climate change is unquestionably causing unfortunate event, which even if it is not as severe as similar events in living memory must always be referred to as unprecedented.
Agreed, Thomas. It’s called gravity. Water flows downhill. So the down-gradient side of most cities is the side with wastewater treatment plants, landfills, scrap metal recyclers, auto salvage yards, gravel pits, scrap tire heaps, petroleum terminals, greater flooding risks, and, yes, much of the heavy industry. In early times, that industry put up company housing for its workers just outside the plant gates, homes that now, if they still exist, are old and dilapidated.
Result? Low property values. Low income neighborhoods. Limited city services. Little economic development. So the poor themselves migrate and choose to locate in these down-gradient areas because that is what they can afford at the time. Neighborhoods with rampant crime, burglar bars and razor wire.Then they complain about the conditions into which they knowingly chose to live and scream “environmental justice!” It’s like moving to the final approach to Chicago O’Hare airport and then complaining about the airport noise.
Because of “environmental justice,” heavy industry has for many years been buying up these older neighborhoods and bulldozing them to provide a buffer or setback from the complainers. New industries, as part of their incentives from city “leaders” to locate there, are negotiating “no-development” and “no-housing” zones around their plant sites. Toyota’s relatively new San Antonio truck assembly plant has a 3 mile “no-housing” radius in all directions built into their concessions from the city.
But people have choices, and they have opportunities. They can blindly choose to live or continue to live there, or they can grasp the opportunity for change and improvement, as hard as that might be to accomplish.
By the way, all measures of pollution (CO2 is NOT a pollutant) have been continually improving for decades, including in these down-gradient “armpit” areas. Social engineering is NOT the legislated mission of EPA.
I have been working for, with, or against EPA for over 40 years. They lost sight of their mission and have been failing for more than 35 of those years. Every regulatory program, often starting on the high ground, eventually matures, bloats, then rots like a dead corpse. Witness the battle over “waters of the U.S. (WOUS). EPA, in their quest for power, wants to regulate every mud puddle in a farmer’s field as a WOUS, when Congress really intended to protect truly navigable rivers, lakes and oceans.
It’s a fairly common occurrence for people to move near to commuter airports because the land is cheap. Then immediately start petitioning the local government to shut down the airport because planes are noisy.
That reminds me of when I was at March AFB (CA) – there was a guy who bought a home in one of the primary training flight paths. He would call the Base Commander every week to complain about the jet noise.
“Black and African American individuals are projected to face higher impacts of climate change for all six impacts analyzed in this report.”
No actual impacts observed? All projections? And we pay for this “work”?
How nice from the EPA which refused to pay $1.2 billion for poisoning Animas river in 2015.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gold-king-mine-spill-colorado-rivers-epa-claims/
Mother Nature ought to be sued for discrimination
What the EPA has missed is that southern states tend to have larger Black and Hispanic populations. Any warming will increase heat-related deaths in southern states while reducing cold-related deaths in northern states, creating disparate racial impact. In pursuit of “environmental justice”, the EPA is confusing demographics with discrimination.
Except it’s not getting hotter.
It’s getting less cold at night and in winter
That is not the same as getting hotter but it’s presented that way
“That Black and African American individuals are projected to face higher impacts of climate change for all six impacts analyzed in this report, compared to all other demographic groups. For example, with 2°C (3.6°F) of global warming, Black and African American individuals are:..
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I forget where I heard this argument, but it goes like this:
The ancestors of African Americans came from a tropical climate in West Africa, did they not? Meanwhile, the ancestors of Whites came from a cooler non-tropical climate in Europe.
Why then would African Americans be more detrimentally affected by a warming climate than Whites? What is/are the determining factor(s) involved here regarding environmental justice (assuming there actually is even a need for such a thing)? Politics?
I am not a racist. However, I wonder if I am seeing a logic problem here with the basis or premise for the environmental justice argument
So the EPA is ‘Racialising’ the climate discussion. Perhaps because the classic AGW meme is not working. Folks are quite used to ‘cancelling’ people on the ‘other side of the argument’. Perhaps we will see more of this.
“So the EPA is ‘Racialising’ the climate discussion. Perhaps because the classic AGW meme is not working.”
I think it has more to do with the radical Democrats raciallizing everything. The EPA is just one of many government entities promoting this type of propaganda.
The radical Democrats have the aim of dividing Americans one from another and using racism is one of their methods.
“That Hispanics and Latinos have high participation in weather-exposed industries, such as construction and agriculture…”
Last I checked, they are allowed to seek other jobs if they want so they are exposed voluntarily. I guess you could argue that we should stop all future immigration (legal and especially illegal) of Hispanics and Latinos in order to protect them.
Stop using “skin color” to type-cast people. Use economic data if you must, but a poor person is just as important no matter their skin color.
Environmental Justice is just a term to invoke victimhood. The roots of this sickness lies in Marxist ideology.
Marxist ideology invokes a two class struggle – the oppressor and the oppressed class. In classical Communist-Marxism these were the bourgeois and the proletariat. In the racist Critical Race Theory it is White Privilege (you are an oppressor merely by the color of your skin, which is patently racist) and everyone else who’s nonwhite are the oppressed victims. So anytime these libs put “Justice” after some descriptor it is this soft Marxist ideology at play of invoking an oppressors and victims setup. It is meant to provide license to socialists to impose cultural revolutions as remedies to then provide “justice.” Environmental Justice warriors divide society along a mentality of “polluters” and the “victims of pollution”. Invoking such constructs is meant to give the Left license to pursue radical change. This is totalitarian change which concentrates political power in the hands of a few and destroys individual rights and liberties, including personal property rights.
So very well said !
Another selective, opportunistic,
relativistic religion (e.g. Pro-Choice, ethics), when combined with the Twilight faith, is subject to conflation, obfuscation. That said, environmental justice anywhere is injustice everywhere.
Actually, this is a good development. The more visible these combined politicized racial and climate memes become, the sooner the average American will realize both (especially intermingled) are just ideological and cash-grabbing scams.
Can we please dump this “peer-reviewed” adulation. “Peer-review has never been anything but an editorial convenience and has become full blown dogma enforcement. It says nothing of value about a paper, especially in a politics laden discipline.
Lets say you want to start a new industry in town. Dirty, smelly, noisy, but (you hope) profitable. (Think steel mill, oil refinery et al)
City Code says “Not in town”. So you buy land way out on the outskirts of the city. The business starts up. The value of the surrounding property goes down. Who wants to live there?
People who can’t afford to live elsewhere.
Egg/Chicken? Cart/Horse?
It’s not so much that the value of the land goes down. Land substantially outside city limits has always been less valuable.
What happens is that people want to live close to where they work, but not so close that they have to suffer from pollution or noise.
Because of it’s proximity to the factory, land closest to the factory increases in price by the least, so it’s bought by those who can’t afford better.
Get a couple of miles from the factory, and land prices go up more, so those who can afford a longer commute and more expensive land move there.
The ultimate solution is not to punish those who have the wherewithal to afford better housing, but instead to allow the free market to increase the wealth of those who in the past had no choice but to look for the cheapest housing, no matter how bad.
G’Day MarkW
Thank you for expanding on my comment – I agree 100%.
I was going to add something about ‘company’ towns, using Caliente, Nevada as an example. It was a Division Point for the Union Pacific railroad. As you make the turn in town to go north towards Pioche – on the right hand side – a row of identical houses side by side for employees, or at least management.
Of course, the other thing about housing close to a ‘dirty’ industry – landlords who move in and throw up cheap houses or apartments.
(When I was typing the original comment I was distracted – a thunder storm. There’s two web sites that I follow for drown strikes during storms. I was spending time jumping from one to the other. Nearest strike – about 500 yards away.)
“The poor are always the hardest hit by climate change policy.”
Fixed it
“The poor are always hardest hit by any change” because they live a precarious balance.
How do the sell this nonsense with a straight face? The effects of climate mitigation won’t be detectable for decades IF models are correct. Meanwhile two generations of the poor will pay higher energy prices and see their best blue collar job opportunities exported to Asia.
The Biden administration want to make the country more like California where fresh water for agriculture is dumped in the sea, farm workers driving 10 yr old pickups subsidize electric vehicle for wealthy tech workers in Silicon Valley, and they pay exorbitant electricity prices to subsidize rooftop solar for wealthy home owners. Perhaps a more correct moniker for the EPA would be ESA for Environmental Serfdom Agency.
EPA Report Shows Disproportionate Impacts of Climate Change on Socially Vulnerable Populations in the United States
Rubbish.
More social justice crap to demonize some people and victimize others to gain political advantage through identity politics.
Can’t the vote fraud results be acted on already so we can push this home-wreaking regime off the cliff?
Unfortunately, no.
A string of buzz words. Nothing actually meant anything.
Please. Bring on the Mid Term Elections so we can shut down this Geriatric/Demented/Ahlzheimer “government”
Slightly disturbing how they adoring crowd are raising their right arms in a neo Nazi salute to her!!! Maybe it’s just me!!!