Agence France Presse: 50 Million People to Lose Homes to Global Warming

NewsBusters.org ^ | 4/8/07 | Warner Todd Huston

[Mobile Vulgus]

Agence Presse France has published a whopper about Global Warming, titled "Climate refugees -- the growing army without a name", in which we get the claims of a UN Climate Committee that "50 million" will be homeless because of Global Warming "by 2010". But the report is so filled with could be's, might be's and the ever popular "some experts say" that it is hard to take the claims seriously. It is, in fact, downright impossible to believe a word in the report unless you suspend all faculties of disbelief and merely accept as a matter of faith that they "could be" right. Of course, that is the nub of the Globaloney debate in the first place; the willing suspension of disbelief.

The first paragraph of this report sets a dichotomy that the rest of the report tries hard to refute with their "expert" testimony.

Global warming could create tens of millions of climate refugees, although numbers are hard to predict with accuracy and the definition itself is open to debate, experts say.

"Experts say", do they? Yet, even as the claims that our mean 'ol Globaloney could create all these refugees the report admits it is "hard to predict with accuracy". Then how do we take them seriously? Could our "experts" be any more disingenuous?

Just about every paragraph is so filled with qualifiers that it is hard to know where facts begin and fantasy reigns. The next two paragraphs don't work to solidify real facts any better than the self-contradictory first one.

See rest of at: Newsbusters

[Mobile Vulgus]

These global warming people are filled with lies!

[kittymyrib]

If they are on the east and west coasts, there might be hope for America’s political future.

[pollyannaish]

There is a point when the balance of any hysteria tips and people stop themselves up and say...”Wait a minute. This is starting to sound a little crazy.”

I honestly believe we’ve hit that point. I think this particular frenzy will be all but gone in the next two years, when we all find out that it is really a ballooning squirrel population that is going to do us in.

[rwilson99]

Well if it’s warm it won’t be so bad to sleep outside.

[EagleUSA]

I hear the clucking din of a million mentally-challenged chicken littles....such insanity is beyond reality.

[petertare]

That is totally insane. In fact reliable UN sources state that by 2010 500 billion people will be forced out of their homes by enviro catastrophe and carbon offset eruptions. Tennessee is very vulnerable. 10 billion will die there.

[honolulugal]

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[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Remember this old song?

Where can you go,
When there’s no San Fransisco.
Better get ready,
To tie up the boat in Idaho!

[ProudFossil]

Don’t you mean 500 million and 10 million?

[yield 2 the right]

I am a true believer of GW.
I ask ALL of my fellow FR-Peers to do the same.
WE humans are the sole cause of GW.
To deny GW is a crime against humanity.
There I said it............ My bad that was for DU..........

[C210N]

If anything, I think his numbers were on the low side...

[C210N]

When it comes to the war on Global Warming, I say fight Hyperbole with Hyperbole.

[rockinqsranch]

What is a “FACT”? If a “FACT” is an absolute truth, then how come the UN must NEGOTIATE with scientists behind closed doors, secretly prior to releasing said “FACTS”?

How can truth be negotiable?

Let’s get these clowns onto a televised TOWN HALL style meeting and pin them down to exactly what their so-called truth is. Who, What, Where, Why, When, and of course How? Name names, show proof.

They would refuse to attend such a meeting wouldn’t they. They would not be able to succeed the scrutiny.

[siunevada]

"by 2010"

But the staff won't be rushing out to buy Saharan acreage in the coming weeks.

What does the Weekly World News have to say on the subject? It's probably more accurate.

[Neophyte]

"50 million" will be homeless because of Global Warming "by 2010".

The UN guys just wanted to tel that in warmer climate about 50 million folks wouldn't need housing... good on them!

Huge relieve for the family budget, especially if you toss in all that cloth they wouldn't need, too...

[ldish]

Bet that none of AlGores three or four houses are threatened....

[Reaganesque]

OK everyone! Everybody remember where you left your home!

[HarmlessLovableFuzzball]

50 Million People to Lose Homes to Global Warming

But not to worry, you can make their lives almost normal again by sharing a little.

[NonValueAdded]

How many millions of those homes will also be lost in the next big tsunami from an earthquake, hardly the stuff of glow-ball warming?

[GSlob]

"...it is hard to take the claims seriously."
Do not take their clams seriously and always distrust their oysters.