Where are the 50 million "climate refugees"?

[ed1066]

In 2005, the United Nations issued a dramatic report stating that, by 2010, more than 50 million people would be displaced from their homes by global warming and its effects. When that prediction came and went without happening, the UN then tried to cover it up by removing references to the report from its web site and other publications.

And, of course, the big left wing media orgasm was around the failed prediction of the Rapture by a minister...

www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/35652

Six years ago, the United Nations issued a dramatic warning that the world would have to cope with 50 million climate refugees by 2010. But now that those migration flows have failed to materialize, the UN has distanced itself from the forecasts. On the contrary, populations are growing in the regions that had been identified as environmental danger zones.

It was a dramatic prediction that was widely picked up by the world’s media. In 2005, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations University declared that 50 million people could become environmental refugees by 2010, fleeing the effects of climate change.

But now the UN is distancing itself from the forecast: “It is not a UNEP prediction,” a UNEP spokesman told SPIEGEL ONLINE. The forecast has since been removed from UNEP’s website.

Cover up: UN tries to erase failed climate refugee prediction
By Gavin Atkins, Asian Correspondent

The United Nations Environment Programme has tried to erase one of its glaring failed predictions about climate refugees by removing a a map from its website purporting to show where 50 million climate refugees will come from by 2010.

After Asian Correspondent reviewed its findings earlier this week, the story has been linked to by websites around the world such as Investor News, American Spectator and was referred to in yesterday’s Australian newspaper and even got a mention on Fox News.

However, the website which is maintained by GRID-Arendal, an official United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) collaborating centre, has now deleted the map.

[❤ mollymouser ❤]

Would the thousands people who became refugees after the flooding in Pakistan qualify, I wonder?
Or even the thousands of people currently displaced from their homes due to Mississippi River flooding?
There've been some nasty flooding and storms in Bangladesh, India, South America, too.

Granted, I don't know if they add up to 50 million, but there are a lot of people displaced due to weather-related phenomemon. (And I'm not even counting the tornadoes from the past 2 months in the U.S.)

[ed1066]

Granted, I don't know if they add up to 50 million

Really? I can tell you for certain they don't...

[❤ mollymouser ❤]

Well, this what I found about the 2010 Pakistan Flood:

"According to Pakistani government data the floods directly affected about 20 million people, mostly by destruction of property, livelihood and infrastructure, with a death toll of close to 2,000."

So, that's 20 million with just that one country.... not a bad start toward getting to that 50 million figure.

[❤ mollymouser ❤]

Hurricane Katrina was responsible for demolishing many homes along the Gulf Coast. It has been reported that 275,000 homes were lost as a result of the hurricane. And that's just the U.S. ... and just one of many deadly hurricanes that season (2005). I know Rita and Ernesto did a lot of damage, too.

[ed1066]

May 24, 2011 16:53:52 GMT -5 ❤ mollymouser ❤ said:

Well, this what I found about the 2010 Pakistan Flood:

"According to Pakistani government data the floods directly affected about 20 million people, mostly by destruction of property, livelihood and infrastructure, with a death toll of close to 2,000."

So, that's 20 million with just that one country.... not a bad start toward getting to that 50 million figure.

Again, if you read the article and the original report, the prediction was that 50 million people would have to move permanently because their lands would become permanently uninhabitable due to climate change-related rising of ocean levels, etc. I don't see that happening in Pakistan nor anywhere else...

[❤ mollymouser ❤]

A series of floods hit Australia, beginning in December 2010, primarily in the state of Queensland including its capital city, Brisbane. The floods forced the evacuation of thousands of people from towns and cities. At least seventy towns and over 200,000 people were affected.[2] Damage initially was estimated at around A$1 billion. The estimated reduction in Australia's GDP is about A$30 billion.

[❤ mollymouser ❤]

Well, I was just pointing out that there are a lot of "climate refugees" out there.

I don't fret so much over predictions being wrong. Sometimes, that's a good thing. Like when they protect 5-10 hurricanes in a season, and we don't get as many as predicted.

[Deleted]

I can buy changing weather patterns. That's normal. I don't buy that mankind is responsible for this.

[humok]

climate change??global warming....BS...we have had and will continue to have these storms from time to time as long as the earth is here....Do you think that paying more in taxes (distributing wealth) and giving it to foreign countries will stop anything......If so you need to get off the koolaid.....

[Deleted]

Not me, humok. Big global scam is what it is, IMO.

[humok]

[thyme4change]

Ah, 2005 - right before the release of Al Gore's great adventure to distributing white guilt. When every company in the world was trying to figure out how to remove 3 staples from their packaging and declare it "less waste." Ah, those were the days. Now, everyone has to backtrack because of the incredibly cold winters and say they didn't really mean global warming - they meant climate change - and it is still the white man's fault. Would you like to buy a carbon credit?

[humok]

NO!

[Savoir Faire-Demogague in NJ]

What is going on in Pakistan that is causing global warming? They certainly are not a manufacturing powerhouse.

[thyme4change]

Nobody thought that maybe god was mad at them? Nope - must be whities fault.

[marshabar1]

This map replaced by this disclaimer.



Gotta love progressives. So flexible with history and truth and reality. . .

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