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| Subject: UN Predicts 50 Million Global Warming Refugees By 2010! Sun 17 Apr 2011, 10:06 am | |
| From... The Guardian, Wednesday 12 October 2005 Rising sea levels, desertification and shrinking freshwater supplies will create up to 50 million environmental refugees by the end of the decade, experts warn today.
Janos Bogardi, director of the Institute for Environment and Human Security at the United Nations University in Bonn, said creeping environmental deterioration already displaced up to 10 million people a year, and the situation would get worse.UN Scrubs Errant 50 Million Global Warming Refugees Prediction From Website By: Noel Sheppard Aaron Worthing noticed Friday that the 'handy map" the U.N. had created to identify places most at risk for such population migrations has been removed: You might remember......how the UN predicted 50 million climate refugees by 2010, a prediction that came up laughably short of the mark by only around 50 million. Well, if you go to that post and click on the link to the UN page making that claim… something funny happens. You get this.......... http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/04/16/un-scrubs-50-million-global-warming-refugees-page-website |
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