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50m environmental refugees by end of decade, UN warns
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Rising sea levels, desertification and shrinking freshwater supplies will create up to 50 million environmental refugees by the end of the decade, experts warn today. Janos Bogardi, director of the Institute for Environment and Human Security at the United Nations University in Bonn, said creeping environmental deterioration already displaced up to 10 million people a year, and the situation would get worse.
More BOGUS predictions from the warmist believers...that didn't come true.
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New Zealand has already agreed to accept the 11, 600 inhabitants of the low-lying Pacific island state Tuvalu if rising sea levels swamp the country.
Except...that never happened.
Why are these people ALLOWED to continue making such predictions, why are they given ANY credibility at all?
They should be run out on a rail, tarred and feathered and thrown out on their butts.
In 2005, the United Nations Environment Programme predicted that climate change would create 50 million climate refugees by 2010. These people, it was said, would flee a range of disasters including sea level rise, increases in the numbers and severity of hurricanes, and disruption to food production.
However, a very cursory look at the first available evidence seems to show that the places identified by the UNEP as most at risk of having climate refugees are not only not losing people, they are actually among the fastest growing regions in the world.
Because the OP is not directly affected...the issue is a non-issue...
The inhabitants of the Carteret Islands are climate refugees caused by sea level rise, and other inhabitants of low lying islands and Island states are also at risk. Tuvalu is especially susceptible to changes in sea level and storm surges and is likely to be another casualty.
Case Study - Climate Refugee
The village of Kanhapur in Orissa (India) is on its own after other villages were swept away in a storm surge. It clings to the last piece of slightly higher ground. Half of the village has already been washed away. Signs of the stilts on which houses once stood all along the beach and the old village water pump, once the heart of the village, stands comically in the middle of the beach. Climate Refugee Climate Refugees - the Hidden Cost of Climate Change | Regional | Solomon Islands News
Rising Sea Makes Panama Islanders Relocate to the Mainland
The retreat of the Panama Islanders could be among the first that’s caused by global warming and rising sea levels. Such a drastic shift in livelihood patterns and migration to the hinterland could become across the world. Already signs are ominous from communities as far apart as Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu and Fiji. The exodus could represent the uprooting of millions and have far-reaching effects. Rising Sea Makes Panama Islanders Relocate to the Mainland
In 2008 alone, more than 20 million people were displaced by climate-related sudden-onset disasters such as floods and storms, according to a 2009 study by the Norwegian Refugee Council. Of the 20 disasters in 2008 with the highest levels of displacement, 17 were in Asia. Scientists expect climate-related disasters to continue to increase as the climate warms and meteorological, hydrological and climatological systems adjust to new conditions.
To deal with the threat, in the olden days some societies threw a couple virgins in the volcano from time to time.
Nowadays we have refined it to a UN pronouncement, followed by pants-wetting among the most gullible.
Can't wait to see what the next line of BS will be after the Global Warming scare bites the dust.
But we have talking heads that tell us WE CAN PREVENT it.
We just need to cough up lots of money and we can change how the world evolves.
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Mysterious Forces Portend Doom!!!!
