Climate change could spur Mexican migration to US: study

AFP on Yahoo ^ | 7/26/10 | AFP

[NormsRevenge]

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Global warming could drive millions more Mexicans into the United States in search of work by 2080 due to diminishing crop yields in Mexico, a study released Monday showed.

"Depending on the warming scenarios used and adaptation levels assumed... climate change is estimated to induce 1.4 to 6.7 million adult Mexicans (or two percent to 10 percent of the current population aged 15-65 years) to emigrate as a result of declines in agricultural productivity alone," the study said.

Researchers led by Michael Oppenheimer of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University estimated the sensitivity of migration to climate change and predicted the number of Mexicans who would migrate under a range of different climate and crop yield scenarios.

In the worst-case scenario would occur if temperatures were to rise by one to three degrees Celsius (1.8 to 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit) by 2080, if farming methods had not been adapted to cope with global warming and if higher levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide had not spurred plant growth. This would mean crop yields in Mexico would fall by 39 to 48 percent, the study said.

"In that case, the increase in Mexico's emigration as a share of population would be between 7.8 percent and 9.6 percent," said the study, which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

[SouthernBoyupNorth]

all the more reason to seal the border

[Doulos1]

We drove them out once before, and it wasn’t pretty.
We can and will do it again.
Keep pushing us and even the good guys will push back.

[mountainlion]

Get rid of the socialism and get a Republican government and people will leave USA to Mexico.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[xuberalles]

[TheConservativeParty]

Since the earth has been cooling for 12 years in a row, the illegals should all go back home.

As long as the MSM doesn’t talk about ClimateGate, it never happened.

Gore the rapist, not talked about either.

Move along MSM, keep acting as if man has the power to change climate.

SUN??? What Sun?

[rockvillem]

In the worst-case scenario would occur if temperatures were to rise by one to three degrees Celsius (1.8 to 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit) by 2080, if farming methods had not been adapted to cope with global warming and if higher levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide had not spurred plant growth.

Love the garbage in, garbage out logic built into the model. No change in farming methods and increased carbon dioxide will somehow not spur plant growth. Good grief.

[PA Engineer]

Propaganda posing as news.

[freedumb2003]

You left out:

[Huntsman2012]

There’s a very poor assumption in this article and it’s that farming wouldn’t change/adapt/improve.

A few decades ago (specifically in 1967 with The Population Bomb) the same assumption was made with predictions that there would be mass starvation because the population of the planet would far outstrip the ability to produce enough food to feed them. John Holdren, now Obama’s science advisor, was also involved here (but it was mainly Paul Ehrlich). They turned out to be incredibly incredibly wrong, because they failed to account for the advances in food production.

[screaminsunshine]

Where did he get that million dollar grant??? Hmnn maybe a study of how climate change will cause more racism due to temp. elevations blocking liberal brain synapses would be good for a mil??

[penelopesire]

ROTFLOL!! They sure don’t have any problems growing dope down there.

[rfp1234]

Idiots. Global cooling could drive lots of Peruvians and Argentines to Mexico, to avoid freezing to death. And penguins, too.

[JPJones]

what if ‘climate change’ gets colder?

[McGavin999]

Then they should migrate south of the equator, it will be a lot cooler down there and farming should be perfect. Why come here?

[Candor7]

Give us your poor, underprivileged and over heated.

What an effing laugh these leftist greenies are.

If that had sphichter muscles without tulips sticking out of them, they could use them to empty themselves and then maybe they could think.

[hinckley buzzard]

Yep. "If," "if," "if."

The terrible "ifs" accumulate.

[Liz]

Ohaha's moving ahead for 2010-12. Luckily, he and Biden extorted a $20 billion campaign contribution from BP to get this going:

MESSAGES TO MEXICO FROM OHAHA

(1) Ohaha appoints Sen Dodd to chair delegation to Mexico-US Interparliamentary Group;

(2) Ohaha declares all illegals are undocumented Democrats;

(3) Ohaha orders the start of massive flow of Mexicans into the US for the Nov elections;

(4) Incompetano orders ICE to the border to handout Democrat party voter registration forms;

(5) ICE distributing apps for Social Security benefits, SSI apps for the wife, kids and senior relatives, welfare forms, food stamps, EITC apps, lists of free healthcare providers, drivers licenses and passports, sub-prime mortgage apps, bank accounts for every identity, and gun and machete permits;

(6) Ohaha provides lists of Democrat campaign committees taking donations from Third World drug lords.

[Liz]

ping

[stephenjohnbanker]

If I were the Prime minister , I would have frozen all bank accounts of Goldman Sachs, GE Citibank, in the OK, and replevy that 20 billion.