I was lucky enough to see this before the link was taken down. Here is what i found.
On the map it says "Climate refugees will mainly come from developing countries, where the effect of climate changes comes on top of poverty and war."
Not a word about rising flood waters making people move. Instead it two links to the sources that gave them data for the maps.
One was: Norman Myers, 'Environmental refugees, An emergent security issue', 13. Economic forum, Prague, OSCE, May 2005;
That begins: 'There is a new phenomenon in the global arena: environmental refugees. These are people who can no longer gain a secure livelihood in their homelands because of drought, soil erosion, desertification, deforestation and other environmental problems, together with associated problems of population pressures and profound poverty'
The other was: Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005 ; Liser, 2007. That lead me to this page, http://www.maweb.org/en/index.aspx
Again no flooding.
So what Gavin Atkins did was take something that was not said. And made some random population samples to prove something that was not said is not true.
And now the internet is a buzz. Another nail in the global warming coffin. Science is defeated by mis-direction and lies. YAY! team.
I find it ironic that a site that pretends to be pro-science would post an anti-science page without even checking the facts.
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I was lucky enough to see this before the link was taken down. Here is what i found.
On the map it says "Climate refugees will mainly come from developing countries, where the effect of climate changes comes on top of poverty and war." Not a word about rising flood waters making people move. Instead it two links to the sources that gave them data for the maps.
One was: Norman Myers, 'Environmental refugees, An emergent security issue', 13. Economic forum, Prague, OSCE, May 2005;
That begins: 'There is a new phenomenon in the global arena: environmental refugees. These are people who can no longer gain a secure livelihood in their homelands because of drought, soil erosion, desertification, deforestation and other environmental problems, together with associated problems of population pressures and profound poverty'
The other was: Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005 ; Liser, 2007. That lead me to this page, http://www.maweb.org/en/index.aspx
Again no flooding.
So what Gavin Atkins did was take something that was not said. And made some random population samples to prove something that was not said is not true.
And now the internet is a buzz. Another nail in the global warming coffin. Science is defeated by mis-direction and lies. YAY! team.
I find it ironic that a site that pretends to be pro-science would post an anti-science page without even checking the facts.