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The Spectacle Blog
The issue of climate change is not whether the climate is changing. It is. The question is whether we face catastrophic changes which require us to wreck the economy to save it. So far, evidence of the coming climate apocalypse remains decidedly absent.
For instance, blogger Gavin Atkins points to the prediction of just five years ago that we would be seeing tens of millions of climate refugees:
In 2005, the United Nations Environment Programme predicted that climate change would create 50 million climate refugees by 2010. These people, it was said, would flee a range of disasters including sea level rise, increases in the numbers and severity of hurricanes, and disruption to food production.
It turns out, however, that the disasters haven’t occurred and the population has been increasing in the areas targeted by the UN. Oops.
It seems being at the UN means never having to be right.
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JimH| 4.12.11 @ 8:29AM
Climates change. Its called weather. Whether the Earth is getting warmer mostly depends on the time frame you are using. Things have gotten warmer over the past several hundred years. They do seem to have stabilized over the revent past. How much warming is in dispute as most of the models and measuring methodologies are somewhat dubious. Beside which, much of the warming predates industrialization. One good sized volcano spews out far more green house gases than human activity does. Assuming things to be getting warmer, and that caused by green house effects, one has to ask is this good or bad? Assuming water to be available, higher levels of CO2 and warmer weather should be good for growing crops.
Robert Bové| 4.12.11 @ 8:32AM
Great to see another Green prophesy go down in flames. Too bad liberals won't notice.
But here's a refugee scenario that we already know is coming to pass: thousands of businesses and individuals fleeing states where job-killing "climate change" policy has been legislated into place.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 4.12.11 @ 8:55AM
The climate has been changing for a billion years. Suddenly, we are supposed to know more then nature.
A.M. Mallett| 4.12.11 @ 9:08AM
Unintelligent Nincompoops
skedaddle| 4.12.11 @ 9:30AM
I see no evidence of the "climate" changing. We have 4 seasons, like we always have. Some years it's hotter or colder or wetter or drier, same as it has been forever. Don't fall for the "climate changing" nonsense. The temperature gathering stations have been moved, mostly to warmer areas, and the statistical gathering process is so tainted it's impossible to draw any useful information. Thanks, globull warming "scientists".
FastJohnny| 4.12.11 @ 9:50AM
This past winter in the northeast was colder and snowier than normal; they said it was due to global warming. Last summer was pretty darn warm; they said it was due to global warming. The earthquake and Tsunami in Japan was devastating; they even said that was due to global warming. A couple of flocks of diseased birds died in the midwest; they said it was due to global warming. This coming summer is supposed to be fairly cool; I suspect they will say it was due to global warming.
Could it be that the reason there is no mass exodus of refugees is due to global warming?
daveinboca | 4.13.11 @ 5:07AM
Don't worry, if a Republican is elected POTUS in 2012, they'll find those climate refugees overnite just like they did the morning Reagan won the '80 election and the country was SUDDENLY full of homeless...!
pajama momma| 4.14.11 @ 12:00AM
It seems being at the UN means never having to be right.
And never having to say you're sorry.
Libra| 4.14.11 @ 8:00AM
Will someone please tell me what the correct temperature of the earth is. I'm confused.
Ellen Goodman from the B Globe| 4.14.11 @ 8:18PM
Denial of global warming is just like Holocaust denial !!!1111!!!