johnbrickner wrote:The complexity of ecological refugees is expressed here:
but not the complexity of ecology. They didnt mention that if the IPCC is correct the ocean will be about 17 inches higher 100 years from now. Or that 80 plus percent of these same island chains have more land area not less in the last few decades despite rising ocean levels. Nor did they explain the rate of sea level rise has lowered the last decade back to levels present for most of the last few thousand years. Or that those islands have ALWAYS had issues with fresh water getting sea water in it. I can go on, and cite it all if I spent a few hours on it.
Instead I will leave you with this. The UN report from 2005 saying there will be 50 million climate refugees by 2010. (instead there was one attempted one for an issue that wont be pressing in his lifetime, perhaps his grandkids, some pointing to syria for climate refugees currently but they are not in a historically significant drought nor uncommon nor out of the range of normal in any way.)
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/ ... atechange1 The date was changed to 2020
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/2 ... 26488.html Paul elrich currently a major proponent of AGW was a proponent the world was set to freeze back in the 70s. In 1971 he said... ....
“By the year 2000 the United Kingdom will be simply a small group of impoverished islands, inhabited by some 70 million hungry people,” he claimed. “If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000 and give ten to one that the life of the average Briton would be of distinctly lower quality than it is today.”
Many others including some just as outlandish and unsupported by data of any sort from people still taken seriously in the field, but instead Ill stop with this quote from the UNs agenda 21 playbook.
"Effective execution of Agenda 21 will require a profound reorientation of all human society, unlike anything the world has ever experienced a major shift in the priorities of both governments and individuals and an unprecedented redeployment of human and financial resources. This shift will demand that a concern for the environmental consequences of every human action be integrated into individual and collective decision-making at every level"
or the club of rome from a book they made in the 70s still heralded by the more well read environmentalists as desirable somehow. Hard to fathom having read it.
"In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill....All these dangers are caused by human intervention....and thus the “real enemy, then, is humanity itself....believe humanity requires a common motivation, namely a common adversary in order to realize world government. It does not matter if this common enemy is “a real one or….one invented for the purpose."