Poor will suffer more on warming
By Derrick Z. Jackson | Saturday, August 9, 2008 | The Boston Globe
“…About 16 months ago, the United Nations panel on climate change cited a vast and growing divide between rich and poor nations in their ability to withstand the effects of global warming. Other experts described the same problem in graphic terms. ‘Like the sinking of the Titanic, catastrophes are not democratic,’ Henry Miller of the Hoover Institution told The New York Times. ‘A much higher fraction of passengers from the cheapest decks were lost. We’ll see the same phenomenon with global warming.’….”…BS
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