Dearth Day Disaster: 50 Million "Climate Refugees" Missing<br><i>Shrieking Ninnies Hit Hardest</i>

Dearth Day Disaster: 50 Million "Climate Refugees" Missing
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I'm pretty sure someone gave a nod to this earlier in the sidebar or on the main page, but the U.N.'s defective crystal ball has resurfaced just in time for the High Holy Day of the pagan religion of ~~Global Warming~~ ~~Climate Change~~ Climate Instability.

This time it seems that there's a little problem with their scare story of 50 million climate refugees by 2010. A very small problem, really. The prediction still holds, other than the fact that neither the origin nor destination of any actual climate refugees can be located.

50 million predicted. Zero found. That's about par for what passes as climate science these days. Another hallmark: "hiding the decline", in this case by deleting the inconvenient truth of their asshattery from the Internet.

In 2005, the U.N. Environment Program (UNEP) published a color-coded map under the headline "Fifty million climate refugees by 2010."
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Six years later, this flood of refugees is nowhere to be found, global average temperatures are about where they were when the prediction was made—and the U.N. has done a vanishing act of its own, wiping the inconvenient map from its servers.

And don't worry about all that noise you hear emanating from Turtle Bay. It's just the sound of the goalposts being shifted.

The program's spokesman tells us the map vanished because "it's not a UNEP prediction. . . . that graphic did not represent UNEP views and was an oversimplification of UNEP views." He added that the program would like to publish a clarification, now that journalists are "making hay of it," except that the staffers able to do so are "all on holiday for Easter."

Yeah. Right. The U.N. map on the U.N. servers didn't represent the U.N.'s views. You just can't make this stuff up.

I'm sure when they get back from "holiday" they'll correct the inconvenient typo by telling us we're all doomed. DOOMED. Just in 2020 now. In the meantime, we'll get to make fun of our favorite enviro-idiot, as Rush's AlGore Doomsday Clock stands at about 4 years and ticking.

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Crap! As I was writing this, I noticed that Tim Blair had found some climate refugees. I'm still standing by my post, though, as I'm pretty sure the U.N. wasn't talking about fish. Maybe.

Posted by: Andy at 11:50 AM

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1 Oh noes the Rethuglicans made 50 million people completely disappear.!

Posted by: MBM at April 22, 2011 11:57 AM (XdlcF)

2 Dare I say first? And Happy Watermelon Day, you Trotskyites!

Posted by: Bulldog in Kansas at April 22, 2011 11:58 AM (z1C58)

3 the staffers able to do so are "all on holiday for Easter."
Evil Christianists!

Posted by: MBM with their usual level of reading comprehension at April 22, 2011 11:59 AM (XdlcF)

4 Oh noes the Rethuglicans made 50 million people completely disappear.!
Posted by: MBM
SEE!!!! They are all Hitlers and Eichmanns!!!!!11!eleventy!!

Posted by: todler at April 22, 2011 11:59 AM (fPOY0)

5
Did you hear why air traffic controllers are so sleepy?

Because in 1981 President Reagan fired them and never allowed them to unionize and collective-bargain for decent working conditions.

Heard it today from the imbecile Stephanie Miller.

Posted by: Soothsayer 6 of 8 at April 22, 2011 11:59 AM (uFokq)

6 Fifteen Foolish Forecasts from Lenin's birthday 100th anniversary Earth Day 1970.

Posted by: andycanuck at April 22, 2011 12:00 PM (Y1DZt)

7 I would like to see a map of all of the refugees who are suffering due to endangered species protection laws and rulings. California's breadbasket counties is becoming a dust bowl wasteland and the farmers are truly suffering, along with all of the people who depend on a farm driven economy. But at least the snail darters are thriving.

Posted by: JayBee at April 22, 2011 12:01 PM (kX5hh)

8 The Brits are saving the their future fish 'n chips. How commendable.

Posted by: Soap MacTavish at April 22, 2011 12:01 PM (vbh31)

9
Do you know why gas prices are so high?

i. It's not Obama's fault.
ii. It has nothing to do with environmental regulations
iii. DID YOU KNOW THAT EXXONMOBIL MADE RECORD PROFITS IN 2008???

Posted by: Soothsayer 6 of 8 at April 22, 2011 12:02 PM (uFokq)

10 It doesn't matter how many times it is proven to be a scam. Obama is implementing it via executive fiat and congress is letting him get away with it.

They need another compromise bill in the House quick!

Posted by: Vic at April 22, 2011 12:04 PM (M9Ie6)

11 Give a Llama a fish and he will carry it for a day. Train Llama's to save fish from Global Warming and they'll carry them for a lifetime.

Posted by: Sgt. Fury at April 22, 2011 12:04 PM (EFot6)

12 Speaking of incorrect predictions:

Fifteen Foolish Forecasts: How did environmentalists get it so wrong on Earth Day 1970?

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 22, 2011 12:04 PM (9hSKh)

13 Bomb them dam refugees, bomb them day and night. And just who is this Al Gore you speak of, does he need bombing too?

Posted by: The new Gen. Patton at April 22, 2011 12:04 PM (sR/pE)

14 Don't think of them as "missing." Think of them as "aborted." There, it's all good.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at April 22, 2011 12:05 PM (op4Bf)

15 iii. DID YOU KNOW THAT EXXONMOBIL MADE RECORD PROFITS IN 2008???

Their profits to earnings ratio was THROUGH THE ROOF.

Posted by: Barak Hussein, Business Major, Boy Genius at April 22, 2011 12:05 PM (wOGfT)

16 Another reason to not pay attention to the scare mongering SOBs.

Posted by: rockhead at April 22, 2011 12:06 PM (UV/FU)

17
*Achtung*

Incoming transmission from Moonbat One...

Posted by: Soothsayer 6 of 8 at April 22, 2011 12:06 PM (uFokq)

18 How to speak Zombie!

Posted by: momma at April 22, 2011 12:07 PM (penCf)

19 If the Marines tip Guam over, are they all climate refugees?

Posted by: Hank Johnson (D, Umbass) at April 22, 2011 12:07 PM (BP6Z1)

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Posted by: Soothsayer 6 of 8 at April 22, 2011 12:07 PM (uFokq)

21 My people have no choice but to congregate here. None.

Posted by: Manatee at the Outflow of a Power Plant at April 22, 2011 12:08 PM (rpIn6)

22 I had read about the missing 50 million a week or two ago and then a couple of days later I was listening over the inter tubes a live stream of Al Gore talking at some climate disruption conference and he made a similar climate refugee claim, but I want to say he said a higher number, 100 million or 200 million or whatever.
Of course he is the same person who predicted the artic would be ice free by now and we would be seeing more, bigger hurricanes. Problem is the rating for the amount of energy created by tropical storms is at an all time low.
Just waiting for the MSM to check out those claims versus reality and call him on it. Any second now...

Posted by: AndrewsDad at April 22, 2011 12:08 PM (C2//T)

23 Fifty million climate refugees by 2010.
Six years later, this flood of refugees is nowhere to be found
the staffers able to do so are "all on holiday for Easter."
We don't want to step on any toes and call the UN liars. So we'll just suggest that these 50 million people are on holiday. That's sure to make us look good.

Posted by: Republicans at April 22, 2011 12:09 PM (XdlcF)

24 Rush talking about the McDonalds assault video on Drudge now.

/Collectively, have we lost our soul as a country? No, not yet, but too large a swath has. Pray it doesn't get worse.

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 22, 2011 12:09 PM (9hSKh)

25 Small nitpick, those fish are not refugees. They were evacuated, thus they are evacuees.

Posted by: Holger at April 22, 2011 12:09 PM (YxGud)

26 My dog ate my climate changehomework

Posted by: UN Commission of Climate Something at April 22, 2011 12:10 PM (d6wkB)

27 5 Did you hear why air traffic controllers are so sleepy?Because in 1981 President Reagan fired them and never allowed them to unionize and collective-bargain for decent working conditions.Heard it today from the imbecile Stephanie Miller.
Posted by: Soothsayer 6 of 8 at April 22, 2011 11:59 AM (uFokq)
Yeah, that's it. And you'd be sleepy too if you hadn't slept since 1981.

Posted by: A Very Tired, Old Air Traffic Controller at April 22, 2011 12:13 PM (d6wkB)

28 They are not missing, They were raptured by Gaia.

Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at April 22, 2011 12:14 PM (cDRYC)

29 Save Teh Planet!

Posted by: HeatherRadish at April 22, 2011 12:16 PM (op4Bf)

30 On holiday for Easter, huh. Yeah, I'm sure they're all real big Jesus freaks over there at the United Nations science division.

Posted by: SplatticusFinch at April 22, 2011 12:24 PM (MwbMs)

31 Do you know how I show I amecologically conscious? I drop the mopes that offend me on the shorewith his feet in abucket of concrete where they will drown from the rising ocean levels.

Posted by: Ecologically Conscious Mafioso Don at April 22, 2011 12:27 PM (d6wkB)

32 o/T: rush mentioned the near death beat down at micky d's on drudge. He didn't mention the teenage boy in Florida lured to his violent horrific death in Florida.

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34 The Charlton Heston-reading-Crichton clip on Rush was awesome.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at April 22, 2011 12:30 PM (op4Bf)

35 Earth Day. What a nice touching way to remember Vladimir Lenin's birthday. Remember, be green today. Here is an example: Earth Day co-founder killed, composted girlfriend

Posted by: pitythefool at April 22, 2011 12:31 PM (BjQSh)

36 Are there any common denominators with these beatdown incidents, murders, and Atlanta train passenger attacks?

Posted by: Havedsah at April 22, 2011 12:33 PM (pQJ1M)

37 37, Yep, Black people.

Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at April 22, 2011 12:33 PM (cDRYC)

38 Barry's creating more economic refugees than AGW.

Posted by: toby928™ at April 22, 2011 12:40 PM (GTbGH)

39 Give a Llama a fish and he will carry it for a day. Train Llama's to save fish from Global Warming and they'll carry them for a lifetime.

Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he'll sit on a river bank and drink beer for the rest of his life. - I can't remember who said it...

Posted by: todler at April 22, 2011 12:41 PM (fPOY0)

40 Earth Day co-founder killed, composted girlfriend
At least he was eco-responible with her remains

Posted by: todler at April 22, 2011 12:42 PM (fPOY0)

41 If the election were held today (and the most recent polling per state is to be believed)-
Romney would beat Obama in NH,PA,FL,MI.
Lose (according to PPP in a RV poll) NC,OH,VA.
For a loss in the EV of 260-278.
However, all of the PPP polls are Registered Voter screens, and several competing polls show Obama severely underwater in approval versus the PPP showing him up in Ohio and Virginia- so if PPP's polling methodology is flawed at all (heh), Romney likely leads in just one of those 3- enough to squeek out a victory.

So take that info for what you will.

Huckabee polls a few points behind Romney, Trump is way, way, way down in head-to-heads- doing worse than even Sarah Palin (who isn't running, yet Democratic pollsters apparently love to throw in there just to be dicks).

I don't put any faith in polling this far out- in 2007 McCain and most of the GOP contenders were annihilating Obama in state polling, and trailing Hillary Clinton on average by 30 EVs. Hillary was determined to be the threat. Boy did we blow that one.

Posted by: CAC at April 22, 2011 12:42 PM (JEVge)

42 CAC Rasmussen has already said it. Polls at this point are useless because all they are are a reflection of name recognition.

After candidates announce (should be soon) and debates are held (first may 5) the polls will start to become more meaningful.

But still, even the professional polls are not worth much until the last 3 months.

Posted by: Vic at April 22, 2011 12:46 PM (M9Ie6)

43 #43
I would even say the last month-and-a-half.
Midterms are actually easier to predict a few months out because it falls down on public opinion really. 2012 has so many variables at this point much of this stuff is just inhaled by whichever GOP candidate polls best to say "see! see!!! I can beat him!!"

Posted by: CAC at April 22, 2011 12:47 PM (JEVge)

44 But still, even the professional polls are not worth much until the last 3 months.

Exactly.

Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at April 22, 2011 12:50 PM (cDRYC)

45 Llama and fish = the new surf and turf!

Posted by: Mikey at April 22, 2011 12:51 PM (bnz3m)

46 50 million predicted. Zero found.

I blame Thor, Supreme Commander of the Asgard fleet.

Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie © at April 22, 2011 12:52 PM (1hM1d)

47 You know what they say in the financial-forecasting business: "Give a number or give a date, but never give both."

Posted by: Cerebral Paul Z. at April 22, 2011 01:02 PM (cQhQZ)

48
Proudly doing my part for Earth Day, by registering 6mpg exercising the Toy.

Not to mention the rubber smoke.

Posted by: irongrampa at April 22, 2011 01:13 PM (ud5dN)

49 There aren't 50 million climate refugees, as predicted? Oh my God, then it's going to be even worse! We'll have 500 million climate refugees! We have 10 minutes to go back to pastoralism or we're all doomed!!!111!!! Hurry, before it's too late, if it's not already!" /liberal numbnuts

Posted by: Jay Guevara at April 22, 2011 01:16 PM (kMKjh)

50 I've said this before, that global warming and cooling are natural occurrences, and have happened numerous times. To posit that man, except in extremely localized, transient episodes can materially affect either is supreme arrogance, plus eye-watering stupidity.

The solution, as it were, entails adapting to the particular, thus surviving. Or failing to, thus expiring.

So the current flap is a bit moot, imho.

Posted by: irongrampa at April 22, 2011 01:26 PM (ud5dN)

51 Well, obviously,
Fifty Million people died.
Or else, where are they?

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Posted by: cs gan at April 23, 2011 12:28 AM (q2b2X)

53 Unfortunately, I have to deal with developing sea level rise adaptation and mitigation activities for local governments in order to satisfy Florida Statutes. It has been really difficult to keep a balance: enough to satisfy statutes, without excessive cost to the taxpayers. Have attached a link to the climate refugee movie that we had to watch. Some of my - let's say, more emotional (and gullible) - colleagues cried and their beliefs became even more entrenched.

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