What Happened To the Climate Refugees?

Attila Dimedici writes "In 2005 the UN said that by 2010 there would be 50 million climate refugees. They even provided a map of where they would come from. However since that original story was posted the UN has taken down that page. They apparently don't know about Google cache."

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Please stop bashing the UN

[DNS-and-BIND]

We really don't need any UN-bashing here. Slashdot is usually very good about this, I don't know how this story got through the editing process. Look, it's an inconvenient truth, one which should be quietly ignored. All they were trying to do was alarm people and get them to stand up and take notice, so we could do something about global warming. The fact that the prediction didn't exactly turn out the exact way it was said is immaterial. What's important is that we make progress on climate change legislation. Let's all remember in 2005, Kyoto wasn't a dead deal and there was a lot of room to influence the process in a positive direction.

Re:Anthony Watts is a known shill

[angel'o'sphere]

Known shill? Possibly - I don't know him. But, in this instance, I have to agree with him, shill or not. I remember Al Gore promising apocolytipic events would happen by now. How 'bout that hockey stick

So ... they did not happen? Where have you been hiding when Cathrina happend? What did you do the last 4 days? Even *I* in the backyard of europe where we still live in the stone age have heard about the catastrophe in the USA happening the last 4 days. How many are dead and how many are homeless?
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/US/04/17/severe.weather/index.html?hpt=T2
Man, just because you hate Al Gore does not make him wrong.
angel'o'sphere