UN Coverup – 50 million climate refugees disappear

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Hoo boy, government bureaucratic idiocy at its finest. Not only is the original claim bogus, the attempts to disappear it are hilariously inept. Apparently, they’ve never heard of Google Cache at the UN. Rather than simply say “we were wrong”, they’ve now brought even more distrust onto the UN.

Back on April 11th, Gavin Atkins of Asian Correspondent asked this simple question:

What happened to the climate refugees?

It is a valid question, and he backs it up with census numbers. Here’s the first part of his story:

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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.

The UNEP even provided a handy map. The map shows us the places most at risk including the very sensitive low lying islands of the Pacific and Caribbean.

It so happens that just a few of these islands and other places most at risk have since had censuses, so it should be possible for us now to get some idea of the devastating impact climate change is having on their populations. Let’s have a look at the evidence:

 

Bahamas:

Nassau, The Bahamas – The 2010 national statistics recorded that the population growth increased to 353,658 persons in The Bahamas.  The population change figure increased by 50,047 persons during the last 10 years.

St Lucia:

The island-nation of Saint Lucia recorded an overall household population increase of 5 percent from May 2001 to May 2010 based on estimates derived from a complete enumeration of the population of Saint Lucia during the conduct of the recently completed 2010 Population and Housing Census.

Seychelles:

Population 2002, 81755

Population 2010, 88311

Solomon Islands:

The latest Solomon Islands population has surpassed half a million – that’s according to the latest census results.

It’s been a decade since the last census report, and in that time the population has leaped 100,000.

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After Asian Correspondent posted the story on April 11th, it was picked up by news outlets around the world such as Investor NewsAmerican Spectator and was cited in the Australian newspaper. It was also a report on Fox News.

Since that story appeared, the “handy map” he cites in his original story, which has this URL:

http://maps.grida.no/go/graphic/fifty-million-climate-refugees-by-2010

…seems to be gone down the memory hole. This is what you get now, note my yellow highlight:

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Is it possible that GMO food products, which are now being foisted on the poorest of African nations, will create a greater havoc than climate change? Just asking.

Sounds just like that myth that the people of Gaza/West Bank are being systematically ethnically cleansed by the Israelis.
Only one problem: the populations of Gaza/West Bank are among the fastest growing of any people on planet earth!

LOL.
Good catch, Curt!

Curt,
Why nitpick over one teeny tiny little bitty mistake the UN made. 500,000,000 is just a small percentage of the global population. When you figure in all of the fine work they have done and are doing around the world, one small error can be forgiven.

Look at all of the positive projects they have done and are doing around the world. For example:

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Will all of you please help me make a list of all of the good things the UN has done and is doing? Right now I just can’t think of one. My mind has gone blank.