50m climate refugees? New Scientist can’t find them either
By Gavin Atkins May 05, 2011 6:54AM UTC
[ I moved my Mom from IL to TX last year ..... she is now a Climate Refugee! ]
New Scientist magazine has done some investigative work on the bogus claim that there would be 50 million refugees by 2010.
One of the revelations is that the map that the UNEP created but now claims does not represent their views, was based on information from a study that they partly funded.
The article goes on to try and identify climate refugees, but fails to mention our findings that the areas identified as most likely to be affected by climate refugees have actually grown. It also includes this astonishing sentence:
For sceptics, however, these few hundred compare badly with Myers’s 50 million.
You mean, for AGW believers, a few hundred is close enough? Then comes this zinger from the author of the original study:
Myers told New Scientist: “It may be very difficult to demonstrate that there are 50 million climate refugees, but it is even harder to demonstrate that there are not.” He sees no reason to change his estimate.
Certainly, it is difficult to demonstrate there are not when nobody makes an effort to monitor the situation, but it’s still remarkably easy to look at a census and make a judgment.
The second revelation is that despite all of the many millions of dollars being spent on climate change, nobody anywhere appears to be trying to keep tabs on climate refugees.
New Scientist requires that you register to gain access to their articles, but in the interests of openness – and because they should have given us at least a nod of attribution – we reproduce the article below:
“There were supposed to be 50 million climate refugees by the end of last year, so where are they? New Scientist investigates
WHATEVER happened to the climate refugees? Six years ago, several UN bodies endorsed the statement that by the end of 2010, there would be 50 million of them around the planet, fleeing rising sea levels, droughts and other climate catastrophes. Was it all a myth, as climate sceptics suggested last week? Or are the refugees out there, but escaping our attention because they never make it onto CNN?
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