Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics

Global Warming Could Spell Disaster for Blacks:

"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."

Although this bit of commentary mercifully omits most actual numbers except, for example, to excuse the fondness of minorities for flashy SUVs by pointing out that they emit 20% less CO2 per capita than Whites, it is fairly obvious that the entire premise of this article is based on misleading use of statistics.

It's sort of like the old joke about the bias of headline writers in the MSM - "World to end tomorrow: Minorities, children, elderly and women to be hardest hit: Bush denies responsibility."