What happened to the global warming refugees?

I haven't had much time to post lately, so here is a great post from a great blog. From the Marquette Warrior (amen) blog:
"Embarrassed UN Panel Backs Away From Blundered Forecast on Global Warming Refugees"
http://mu-warrior.blogspot.com/2011/04/embarrassed-un-panel-backs-away.html

This blog post references a story from Der Spiegel:
"UN Embarrassed by Forecast on Climate Refugees" by Axel Bojanowski
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,757713,00.html

"Six years ago, the United Nations issued a dramatic warning that the world would have to cope with 50 million climate refugees by 2010. But now that those migration flows have failed to materialize, the UN has distanced itself from the forecasts. On the contrary, populations are growing in the regions that had been identified as environmental danger zones."

"But now the UN is distancing itself from the forecast: "It is not a UNEP prediction," a UNEP spokesman told SPIEGEL ONLINE. The forecast has since been removed from UNEP's website."

"Official statistics show that the population in areas threatened by global warming is actually rising. The expected environmental disasters have yet to materialize."

On one hand, this is amazing that they got their predictions so wrong. But, on the other hand, this is all too predictable. When global warming proponents do put their predictions on paper ... they are wrong.


Back to the Marquette Warrior blog post, the author is spot-on with the following points:

"True believers in anthropogenic global warming will insist that silly forecasts coming from a UN panel don’t really cast doubt on 'the science' of the issue.

"But of course, average citizens, even rather well-informed ones, don’t know the science, they only know the media hype, including media hype coming from the United Nations. Learning to discount this hype is an excellent first step toward sanity on the issue."

Read that last sentence again.


"And unfortunately, the people who 'know the science,' climate scientists, have shown themselves to be badly biased. Not only do they have a vested interest in global warming, they constitute a rather closed community with strong community norms. That’s what Climategate showed."

"The fact that the true believers have acted like an Inquisition, threatening and punishing people who dissent, also does not engender confidence. Don’t people who are confident in their position usually seek to debate and engage, rather than stiffle opposing opinions?"

Fabulous post by John McAdams. Well done.