In Search of Shelter
by Buck • Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 - 4:16 pmLies, lies, and more damn lies! It can’t happen. Al Gore made it all up!
Tagged: In Search of Shelter, International Organization for Migration, climate changeGlobal warming could create 200 million refugees by 2050
BONN, Germany (AFP) – Tens of millions of people will be displaced by climate change in coming years, posing social, political and security problems of an unprecedented dimension, a new study said on Wednesday.
Estimates of the likely numbers range from 25 to 50 million people by 2010, while the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has pitched a figure of 200 million by 2050.
Whilte not using the word “refugee,” because it has a specific political context, the reality is that global warming will produce tens of millions of refugees, the study asserts.
“Unless aggressive measures are taken to halt global warming, the consequences for human migration and displacement could reach a scope and scale that vastly exceed anything that has occurred before,” its authors warned. [...]
The report, “In Search of Shelter,” was compiled by specialists from Columbia University in New York and the United Nations University, and from a non-governmental organisation, CARE International.
June 11th, 2009 at 1:05 am
HA! So they are extrapolating all the way to 2050 when weather forecasters have a hard time predicting the weather a week in advance? C'mon, get serious!
June 11th, 2009 at 1:19 am
How do they get extrapolating climate all the way to 2050 when weather forecasters can't accurately predict the weather a week in advance?
Even if it were heading that way at this time, climate trends can change at any moment. In the 60s they were terrified of an impending ice-age, then suddenly someone looked at the very same data and cooked up this notion of global warming.
C'mom, either they're not serious OR a lot of money is to be made in research grants. developing technology, politicans getting kudos and and taking advantage of the scare, etc., all based on this global warming business.
Since a vast majority of climatologists that are AGAINST the idea of global warming are RETIRED it says that those in the business reap benefits to promoting this. It's simple, scare people with such ideas and money comes pouring with the hope of solving the problem. Many profit thereby.
June 11th, 2009 at 2:37 am
How do they get extrapolating climate all the way to 2050 when weather forecasters can’t accurately predict the weather a week in advance?
Hmm, who can spot the faulty logic in this global warming denier chestnut?
Hmm...
June 11th, 2009 at 10:38 am
Bat, great link! I didn't know it existed. Should make it a part of every post that's global warming-related.