NY Times a source in UN Climate Report re heat in minority neighborhoods, 'environmental justice'

• A commenter to the blog, Watt's Up With That, “Galileonardo” was reading the UN Nobel Prize Winning Climate Report and noted:

""I found this reference to the New York Times in WGII 14.4.6. Just thought it should be part of the growing record:

• http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg2/en/ch14s14-4-6.html

The reference reads (Wilgoren and Roane, 1999) and is the source for the following claim:

Unreliable electric power, as in minority neighbourhoods during the New York heatwave of 1999, can

amplify concerns about health and

• environmental justice.

The AR4 reference page can be found here:

http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg2/en/ch14s14-references.html

It reads:

Wilgoren, J. and K.R. Roane, 1999: Cold Showers, Rotting Food, the Lights, Then Dancing. New York Times, A1. July 8, 1999

That article can be found here:

• http://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/08/nyregion/aftermath-heat-wave-neighborhoods-cold-showers-rotting-food-then-lights-then.html?pagewanted=1

• I’m not sure who

• peer reviewed it.""

"Gate du Jour: IPCC AR4 references NY Times story" from Watt's Up With That, 2/2/10

• (It seems like just about everybody is a source in the Nobel Prize winning UN Climate Science report).ed.

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