Climate Inequality Exists in U.S. Cities and Has Deep Racist Roots

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Originally Posted by Chicks

Climate Inequality Exists in U.S. Cities and Has Deep Racist Roots
Lower-income residents and people of color are more likely to live in the hottest neighborhoods

https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...-racist-roots/

That has got to be the dumbest article of all time, leaving me to believe that rag should definitely change its name and take out the word "scientific."

Right now, East Cleveland (a predominately black neighborhood in Ohio) is 24 degrees.

https://weather.com/weather/today/l/...dd007a35df99c9


Windermere, Florida (a rich predominately WASP community) is 70 degrees.

https://weather.com/weather/today/l/...34bef217e5a716


This does beg some questions, besides the obvious: (Who is dumb enough to give Scientific American any credibility at all after such an idiotic racist article?)

1. The urban heat island effect is entirely real. Large concentrations of concrete conduct heat. So why do people of color choose to live in such areas? Why don't they just move to smaller towns, where ironically the housing costs are a lot less?

2. In Florida, the Orlando area is significantly hotter than the southwest portion of the state, even though the southwest is closer to the equator. All that concrete, used to build all those theme parks and massive housing developments. And it has Washington Shores and Pine Hills, neighborhoods with people of color and low income people all over the place. Pine Hills features a butt load of West Indian immigrants. What in the hell made them choose Orlando, where housing prices are going through the roof, over some of the smaller towns in southwest Florida where rents and housing prices are much lower, and the Gulf breezes cools everything down?


3. Where is the scientific evidence that climate and weather is racist?