More Global Warming Horrors: Minorities, Indigenous People Hardest Hit

Earlier today we noted how the global warming scam was now an official religious principle.

Now comes word that this hoax has hit particular groups hardest.

Naturally, this Reuters item makes no effort to even question the doomsday scenarios.

Minorities and indigenous people frequently bear the brunt of the ravages of climate change but also often come last on the aid list because they are on the margins of society, a report said on Tuesday.

Some are even the victims of efforts to tackle global warming such as clearing tracts of land and forest for growing biofuels, according to "State of the World's Minorities 2008" report from Minority Rights Group International (MRG).

"Climate change has finally made it to the top of the international agenda at every level but...recognition of the acute difficulties that minorities face is often missing," said MRG's policy chief Ishbel Matheson.

"From the immediate aftermath of a disaster to the point of designing policy on climate change -- the unique situation of minority and indigenous groups is rarely considered."

Scientists say global average temperatures will rise by between 1.8 and 4.0 degrees Celsius this century due to carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels for power and transport.

This will melt ice caps, raise sea levels and cause more floods, droughts and storms, putting millions of people at risk.

The MRG report said forgotten minority groups often live in areas rejected by the wealthy because of their riskier location.

Indigenous peoples also often inhabit marginal lands and, because they depend on nature for their survival, face double jeopardy from the changing climate which is altering growing seasons and rainfall patterns, it said.

And when disasters hit and relief efforts swing into action, these same groups are often the worst affected but the last to be helped, the report said.

Naturally, one of the donors to the MRG is none other than George Soros and his Open Society Institute.

Shocking, no?