Posted on 04/10/2021 3:59:32 AM PDT by Kaslin
Thousands of illegal immigrants are streaming across the United States’ southern border every day under President Joe Biden.
In response, climate alarmists are following former Chicago Mayor and President Obama’s Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel’s shameful advice to “never let a crisis go to waste” by repeating the false claim that many of the immigrants are “climate refugees.” Meaning they are being forced to flee their homelands by disasters caused by anthropogenic global warming.
Research shows this claim is false. Millions of people flee their homelands each year. But the causes are what they have always been: war, political persecution, crime, and poverty. Refugees now, as they always have, are leaving their countries in pursuit of a better life for their children and themselves. Not because of climate change.
A recent International Policy Digest (IPD) article titled “It’s Time to Recognize Climate Refugees” falsely claims “refugees are … fleeing climate change.”
“In the face of warmer temperatures, reduced precipitation, and blighted crops—struggling farmers from Guatemala and El Salvador are giving up and fleeing to the U.S. border,” says IPD.
“Climate change will submerge American communities like Isle de Jean Charles, Louisiana, and entire countries like the Maldives.”
The problem is the narrative doesn’t fit the facts. Guatemala’s top agricultural products are coffee and sugar cane. Since 1988, when James Hansen famously declared, in a carefully staged Senate hearing, that humans were definitely causing dangerous global warming, data from theUnited Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)show Guatemala’s coffee production has set new records in nine separate years. Coffee production increased by more than 34 percent from 1998 to 2018. Guatemala’s sugar production has boomed even more over the past 33 years of modest warming, setting new records for production 19 times since 1998 and increasing by more than 284 percent.
FAO data for El Salvador is equally positive. Rather than crops failing amidst modest warming, farmers are doing better. Corn and sugar cane are two of El Salvador’s most important agricultural products. Since 1988, El Salvador’s corn harvest has set new records six times. Despite yearly ups and downs typical of crop production anywhere, El Salvador’s corn production has not fallen below its 1998 production levels since 2003, and corn production has grown 46 percent.
El Salvador’s sugar cane production has increased 162 percent since 1998, setting new records for production in 11 separate years.
FAO data show that what’s true for El Salvador and Guatemala is true for the world as a whole, with global crop yields, especially for the world’s most important cereal crops—corn, rice, and wheat—setting new records almost every year.The truth is almost all nations asserted to be shedding climate refugees due to crop failures, have been benefiting from steadily increasing crop yields over the past decades.
For instance, climate alarmists disgustingly asserted in the past that warming-induced crop failure was a reason for the Syrian civil war and the mass exodus of Syrian refugees. Syria is part of an arid, desert region of the world where, for thousands of years, droughts have been the norm, not the exception. In fact, the entire region experienced the same drought as Syria, yet war did not break out in Iran, Israel, Jordan, or Saudi Arabia.
The battle for freedom against continued tyranny, not food shortages, was responsible for the “Arab Spring” revolutions in Syria and other countries around the same time. Indeed, FAO data show Syrian crop production grew by approximately 50 percent since 1995, and the Arab Spring democracy uprisings in Syria and elsewhere, occurred in 2011, a year in which Syria produced its eighth highest crop yields in history.
The claim that rising seas due to climate change are creating refugees from American coastal cities and small island nations is equally false. Demographic data show population, property values, and development continues to increase each year along America’s coasts.
And, multiple studies conducted over the past two decades confirm, the majority of islands predicted to shed climate refugees due to sea-level rise are growing, not shrinking, as are their populations and related infrastructure.
For example,one recent peer-reviewed study found eight out of Tuvalu’s nine coral atolls have grown in size during recent decades, and 3/4ths of Tuvalu’s 101 reef islands have similarly grown in size. Also, Tuvalu is experiencing net immigration rather than net emigration. There are 20 percent more people living in Tuvalu now than 30 years ago. Tuvalu’s population has doubled since 1970.
Also, whereas30 years ago, the Canberra Times claimed all 1,196 islands that comprise the Maldives could be completely underwater by now. Not only are all 1,196 islands still there, but the Maldives population has doubled during the past 20 years. People are flocking to the Maldives islands, not fleeing them.
The constant attempt to link illegal immigration to climate change is part and parcel of what one author referred to as “the endless, fruitless search for climate refugees.” Climate refugees, if they exist at all, are few and far between, and provide no justification for authoritarian policies to fight climate change or open border immigration.
All these “climate refugees” are just running to a different disaster, by using the scheme introduced by Cloward-Piven, the supposed economic advantage they were also seeking is about to collapse. By spending TRILLIONS of dollars to introduce a very inefficient health care system to the United States, and the introduction of the “Green New Deal”, the Harris/Biden regime has all but guaranteed the financial collapse of the territory once known as “the United States of America”, by both assuring that the economic activity falls to such a low level, that vast unemployment follows, and the industrial base has almost no resources to keep the productivity going.
The territory once known as “the United States of America” thus slips into the conditions that are almost as bad as the defunct economies that these “climate refugees” were fleeing from, completing their leap from the frying pan into the fire. And they won’t even have the means to go back home, as the Mexican drug/authoritarian cartels will control the traffic back across Mexico, taking their tolls or totally enslaving the stragglers.
Humanitarian. Right. Defining deviancy down, that is what it is.
Oh my gosh! The average summer temperature is one degree higher this year than it was last year! I'm fleeing!
--said no one, ever.
OPEN YOUR EYES, DEMOCRATS: IT'S YOUR OWN PARTY'S PHILOSOPHY & PLATFORM, THAT IS THE CAUSE.
It is like New Yorkers and Californians migrating to Florida and Texas, all anthropologic
Getting the border back open is why BOTH parties cheated Senile Joe in.
Go figure, every fall there is a mass migration of people from Michigan heading to Florida for the warm weather......
This is all just a repopulation and redistribution of wealth to and for 3rd world countries......and there’s no chance of stopping it now.
They’re NOT “climate refugees”... they’re refugees from government’s run by corrupt ‘elites’... the same systems Biden’s thugs want to install here...
On a lighter brighter note...
If Biden’s thugs succeed in stealing power from the people for themselves, we won’t have to worry about people trying to break into our country... We’ll have to worry about American citizens trying to escape the hellhole ‘elites’ will create here.
No. Actually The real measured global average temperature by satellite last month was .... -0.10 degree BELOW the 2000 baseline.
Yes, after twenty one of catastrophic “global warming” - while CO2 levels have steadily increased from 300 ppm to over 410 ppm - actual global average measured temperatures have declined.
Actual measured temperature averaged by global satellites on March 31 were -0.01 dag BELOW the year 2000 baseline.
20 years of global warming, and we’re slightly cooler worldwide .
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