Global warming and Blacks

This made my jaw drop:

If you thought Hurricane Katrina was a once-in-a-lifetime fluke, think again. Concerned environmentalists say that unless the United States gets real about the threat of global warming, African Americans and other people of color can expect a repeat of disasters like Katrina.

“When you look at the trends and put them all together, it’s undisputable that the sea levels are rising,” says Ansje Miller, director of the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative (EJCC). “Warmer seas mean more intense hurricanes…. You’re going to have intense flooding like we have never seen before. Katrina is really the hurricane of the future.”

...That’s bad news, especially for African Americans. 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. But asking Black folks to give up gas-guzzling SUV’s and other bling is a tough sell.

Read the whole article, it's astonishing. There is absolutely no balance to it. No global warming skeptics are quoted. And just what is the EJCC? I looked them up online and found their homepage here. You tell me what kind of reputable organization this is.

And the bolded line -- really -- can you imagine a white journalist writing something to the effect that Blacks really care about their SUVs and bling? Why is this garbage published on BET.com?