longweekend58 wrote on Jun 1
st, 2011 at 9:33am:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/world-still-waiting-for-50-million-climate-refugees-by-2010/story-fn59niix-1226042490227
SUCK IT UP ROO_GIRL.
Thanks chicken lipsforme, that link worked this time.Here it is
Quote:A UN climate body has been forced to back away from damaging claims that the world could be flooded with up to 50 million "climate refugees" - by last year.
The predictions date back to 2005 when the UN University in Bonn in Germany argued for a new category of refugee to cover people fleeing environmental catastrophes such as sea-level rises, desert expansion and flooding. As recently as last week, a website affiliated with the UN Environment Program, which lists climate change as one of its six priorities, carried a map outlining where the refugees would come from, under the heading "Fifty million climate refugees by 2010".
Low-lying Pacific islands, such as the tiny nation of Tuvalu, have been considered potential sources of climate refugees as they are submerged by rising sea levels.
However, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees estimated the number of all refugees worldwide at the end of 2009 to be 15.2 million, and the total number of people subject to forced displacement - including asylum-seekers and people displaced within their own countries - at 43.3 million.
GRAPHIC: UN climate refugee map
The map has since been removed
OH LOL, the map has since been removed so we have to take the OZs word that they didn't make it up.LOL
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Oh the gullible ones, hey longy, the world is going to end tomorrow, I read it in the OZ, but their source is no longer available,LOL LOL
you truly are an idiot. the UN said themselves that they removed the map - not that iot didnt exist. and why did they remove it? because it was an embarrassment; an example of a hysterical and unfulfilled prophecy.