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UN Scrubs Errant 50 Million Global Warming Refugees Prediction From Website
newsbusters.org ^
| April 16, 2011
| Noel Sheppard
Posted on 04/16/2011 12:47:38 PM PDT by PROCON
As NewsBusters reported Tuesday, the United Nations in 2005 wrongly predicted there would be 50 million environmental refugees by the end of the previous decade as a result of global warming.
Aaron Worthing noticed Friday that the 'handy map" the U.N. had created to identify places most at risk for such population migrations has been removed:
You might remember the other day I pointed out how the UN predicted 50 million climate refugees by 2010, a prediction that came up laughably short of the mark by only around 50 million. Well, if you go to that post and click on the link to the UN page making that claim… something funny happens. You get this:
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: climatechange; climaterefugees; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; refugees; un; unitednothings
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The UN is a worthless, corrupt agency, right up there with the EPA.
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posted on
04/16/2011 12:47:41 PM PDT
by
PROCON
To: steelyourfaith; Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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posted on
04/16/2011 12:48:26 PM PDT
by
PROCON
(Republicans: we elected you, DON'T let us down; 2011: the year of REPEAL!)
To: PROCON; Dr. Bogus Pachysandra; Normandy; FreedomPoster; Para-Ord.45; Entrepreneur; tubebender; ...
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posted on
04/16/2011 12:50:54 PM PDT
by
steelyourfaith
(If it's "green" ... it's crap.)
To: PROCON
The anti-freedom/anti-capitalist UN has got to go. Capitalist countries should not be paying these bastards a penny.
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posted on
04/16/2011 12:51:01 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(The "Rich" is not obligated to provide anyone with a BIG nanny state government.)
To: PROCON
The UN is a worthless, corrupt agency, right up there with the EPA....that is funded by all of us via tyrannical methods of wealth distribution.
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posted on
04/16/2011 12:52:15 PM PDT
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
To: PROCON
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posted on
04/16/2011 12:54:21 PM PDT
by
Red in Blue PA
(Let's apply the "reasonable man" standard to gun laws. How many would stand?)
To: PROCON
But, but, but..."The science is settled"!
/enviro-weenie
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posted on
04/16/2011 12:54:50 PM PDT
by
SIDENET
("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
To: PROCON
You might remember the other day I pointed out how the UN predicted 50 million climate refugees by 2010, a prediction that came up laughably short of the mark by only around 50 million.That prediction went right down the memory hole.
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posted on
04/16/2011 12:55:59 PM PDT
by
JimRed
(Excising a cancer before it kills us waters the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
To: PROCON
google still has a thumbnail:
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posted on
04/16/2011 1:04:10 PM PDT
by
Christian Engineer Mass
(25ish Cambridge MA grad student. Many conservative Christians my age out there? __ Click my name)
To: PROCON
Somewhere George Orwell is just shaking his head in saddened wonder.
To: PROCON
Well, they might try counting how many are hunted by their filthy muslims instead...
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posted on
04/16/2011 1:45:27 PM PDT
by
Hardraade
(I want gigaton warheads now!!)
To: PROCON
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posted on
04/16/2011 3:08:43 PM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: Christian Engineer Mass
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posted on
04/16/2011 3:09:43 PM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: Christian Engineer Mass; PROCON
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posted on
04/16/2011 3:14:42 PM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: FreedomPoster
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posted on
04/16/2011 3:35:47 PM PDT
by
Christian Engineer Mass
(25ish Cambridge MA grad student. Many conservative Christians my age out there? __ Click my name)
To: Christian Engineer Mass
Don’t know. That 2nd link I posted was from the archive page in the 1st link.
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posted on
04/16/2011 3:39:09 PM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: FreedomPoster
OK thanks. Where do you search? I just went to archive.org and typed in the URL of the image because I didn’t have the URL of the page. Did you type the URL of the page?
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posted on
04/16/2011 3:43:32 PM PDT
by
Christian Engineer Mass
(25ish Cambridge MA grad student. Many conservative Christians my age out there? __ Click my name)
To: Christian Engineer Mass
Correct. The Newsbuster linked page had the URL of the UN page, I went to archive.org with that, and got the link for the image from the archive.org archived UN page.
I’ve been fairly successful with that sort of thing before, but sometimes it takes some playing around.
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04/16/2011 4:44:22 PM PDT
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FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: PROCON; 11B40; A Balrog of Morgoth; A message; ACelt; Aeronaut; AFPhys; AlexW; America_Right; ...
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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posted on
04/17/2011 8:06:36 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Understanding the Koran: http://www.citizenwarrior.com/2009/05/terrifying-brilliance-of-islam.html)
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