<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/author/scottystarnes/> Voodoo Climate Science: What happend to those "50 Million Climate Refugees" the UN said would be displaced?<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/2011/04/26/voodoo-climate-science-what-happend-to-those-50-million-climate-refugees-the-un-said-would-be-displaced/> *Scotty Starnes <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/author/scottystarnes/>*| April 26, 2011 at 12:32 PM | Tags: Al Gore <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/?tag=al-gore>, climate change<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/?tag=climate-change>, climate refugees <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/?tag=climate-refugees>, global warming <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/?tag=global-warming>, IPCC <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/?tag=ipcc>, Rajenda Pachauri<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/?tag=rajenda-pachauri>, U.N. <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/?tag=u-n>, United Nations<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/?tag=united-nations>, United Nations Environment Program<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/?tag=united-nations-environment-program>, voodoo science <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/?tag=voodoo-science> | Categories: Political Issues <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/?cat=35145>| URL: http://wp.me/pvnFC-5b8
Most of us know that the 'climate predictions' made by the likes of Al Gore, environmentalist and U.N. 'experts' just haven't panned out. With so many wrong predictions, how can those who believe in man-made climate change claim it is "settled science?" Patrick Michaels reports, via Forbes.com<http://blogs.forbes.com/patrickmichaels/2011/04/21/voodoo-economics-how-about-voodoo-climate-science/> When will our greener friends at the UN learn that it’s just not a good idea to make definite predictions about certain disasters? *This time they have been called out on their 2005 prediction that by now there would be 50 million “climate refugees”—people choosing to emigrate because of bad weather. The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) even came up with a global map showing precisely where people would migrate from. * Pretty much every forecast about climate change or its effects should be viewed as a hypothesis rather than a fact. After all, as Firesign Theater once noted, “the future’s not here yet”. But the UN named a specific year (2010) which allows for an actual test of their prediction. *Census takers around the world have inadvertently adjudicated the UN’s forecast. It was dead wrong. Pretty much every recent census reveals that populations are growing rapidly precisely where everyone was supposed to be migrating from. (And where is the story that global warming causes babies?). * Folks were supposed to be streaming away from low-lying tropical islands because of worse and more frequent hurricanes. The population of the Bahamas, which catches about as many tropical cyclones as any place on earth, is up 14% since 2000. The Solomons, up 20%. Sychelles: 9%. *Did I mention that global hurricane activity has recently sunk to its all time measured low, despite the UN’s strident statements about more frequent and terrible storms? (Note that the hurricane data is only reliable for the last fifty years or so, hence the word “measured”.)* Is this exaggeration of an affect of climate change by the UN an isolated incident? Hardly. *Recent history reveals the UN to be a systematic engine of climate disinformation*. In 2007, the UN famously stated that, if warming continued at present rates (whatever that means—there hasn’t been any since the mid-late1990s), the massive Himalayan glaciers would disappear 23 years from now. While the source, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) proclaims itself the consensus of climate science, there’s no credentialed climatologist on earth who believes that this ice cap, which is hundreds of feet thick, could possibly disappear so soon. *When the government of India, which knows something about the Himalayan glaciers that feed the great Ganges River, challenged the UN’s forecast, the head of the IPCC, Rajenda Pachauri, labeled it “voodoo science”.* It turns out that the UN was the voodoo practitioner. Dr. Murari Lal, who authored the statement, eventually admitted that it was in the UN climate report to spur the governments of India and China into reducing their carbon dioxide emissions, and that it was not based on anything in the peer-reviewed scientific literature. Add a comment to this post<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/2011/04/26/voodoo-climate-science-what-happend-to-those-50-million-climate-refugees-the-un-said-would-be-displaced/#respond> <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/scottystarnes.wordpress.com/19910/> <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/scottystarnes.wordpress.com/19910/> <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gofacebook/scottystarnes.wordpress.com/19910/> <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gotwitter/scottystarnes.wordpress.com/19910/> <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/scottystarnes.wordpress.com/19910/> <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/scottystarnes.wordpress.com/19910/> <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/scottystarnes.wordpress.com/19910/> [image: WordPress] WordPress.com <http://wordpress.com/> | Thanks for flying with WordPress! Manage Subscriptions<http://subscribe.wordpress.com/?key=5d39acfd19218362d540a3fc3dc3315d&email=baconlard%40gmail.com>| Unsubscribe<http://subscribe.wordpress.com/?key=5d39acfd19218362d540a3fc3dc3315d&email=baconlard%40gmail.com&b=La23I%7EzD4%26jKt5%26hEqHeja%5DptafbrdTSmu-%2FyRjYaSQ.%5D0_%2Cnp>| Publish text, photos, music, and videos by email using our Post by Email <http://support.wordpress.com/post-by-email/> feature. *Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser:* http://subscribe.wordpress.com -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
