Posted on 02/28/2022 11:08:40 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Paris (AFP) – People driven from their homes as global warming redraws the map of habitable zones are unlikely to find refuge in countries more focused on slamming shut their borders than planning for a climate-addled future, according to a top expert on migration.
From fleeing a typhoon to relocating in anticipation of sea level rise, climate migration covers a myriad of situations and raises a host of questions.
But one thing is sure: the number of climate refugees is going to increase in the coming decades, according to a major UN report on climate impacts and vulnerability released on Monday.
"We are on the cusp of a major environmental change that is going to redistribute populations on a planetary scale," Francois Gemenne, a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, told AFP.
Most people forced to abandon their homes due to droughts, storms and floods made worse by global warming are in the global South, and most remain within the borders of their countries.
Many of those who do wind up on the edge of Europe or the southern border of the United States are often labelled "economic migrants", suggesting that they are pulled by opportunity rather than pushed by catastrophe, Gemenne said.
Sea level rise alone could displace hundreds of millions of people by century's end, with low-lying coastal regions expected to be home to more than a billion people by 2050, according to the IPCC report.
But predictions of how many climate migrants there might be in 30, 50 or 80 years are confounded by unknown variables and choices not yet made.
"It's very complicated and hard to say because we're talking about human behaviour, which can sometimes be irrational", Gemenne said.
"It's not really something that the IPCC can model."
(Excerpt) Read more at france24.com ...
Would people coming down from the Great White North to Florida or Caribbean during the Canadian winter be considered “climate migrants”?
Barf.
The climate refugees are nothing compared to the devastating billions of trillions of people that will suffer unimaginable catastrophe if the U.N. does not immediately buy as much of AndyTheBear’s magic snake oil as possible. The debate is over. Anybody who disagrees is a heartless monster....blah blah blah.
They are really double-ing down on this BS. No one is moving because the climate has changed
I can absolutely relate to the fear these climate folks have. Last summer I seriously considered moving, as my house was unbearably hot even with the air conditioner running full blast.
Then I noticed that I had accidentally turned on the furnace instead of the AC. False alarm, I guess.
More excuses for why the USA must be flooded with foreigners.
Just a cover story for stealing our country from us.
It has been a bipartisan policy for 30 years.
Why is it only western democracies are the only safe havens for climate rapefugees?
LOL. A lot of NDP Canadian Karens and wine-moms would be shocked by their new status.
“Climate migrants could”
What could the world be like without hypotheticals?
W. T. F. is “climate migrant?”
Stinking blue staters that move to Florida.
France has a nerve posting this. Wasn’t it just a few years ago they all went on vacation and left their elderly family members behind in a heat wave with no air conditioning? How many died?
U.N. OFFICIAL PREDICTS DISASTER SAYS GREENHOUSE EFFECT COULD WIPE SOME NATIONS OFF MAP - entire nations could be wiped off the face of the earth by rising sea levels if global warming is not reversed by the year 2000. Coastal flooding and crop failures would create an exodus of “eco-refugees,” threatening political chaos, said Brown, director of the New York office of the U.N. Environment Program. He said governments have a 10-year window of opportunity to solve the greenhouse effect - Associated Press June 30, 1989
Today (in 1996) 25 million environmental refugees roam the globe, more than those pushed out for political, economic, or religious reasons. By 2010, this number will grow tenfold to 200 million. - The Heat is On -The High Stakes Battle Over Earth’s Threatened Climate - Ross Gelbspan - 1996
Environmental refugees to top 50 million in 5 years —”There are well-founded fears that the number of people fleeing untenable environmental conditions may grow exponentially as the world experiences the effects of climate change and other phenomena,” says UNU-EHS Director Janos Bogardi. - United Nations University news release - October 11, 2005
But this time they are surely right
But it wasn't from global warming. It was global cooling during the Dark Age that caused the Huns to seek new land southwest of where they had been, which forced the various gothic tribes to move southwest too, which forced the Anglos out of their territory (modern day Germany area). The Anglos went north into Scandanavia (going north when it's already too cold where you're at to grow crops makes life even worse). We know that the Huns moved there too, we're not sure if pressure from the Huns is why the Anglos moved again -- this time west to Brittania (modern day England).
Something to think about whenever we hear the horrors of global warming -- historically it's the centuries long global cooling years that make most civilization commit atrocities against others.
Life during the Modern Warm Period is so nice that our government pays farmers to avoid growing too much food. That would have been unheard of when this country was formed during the Little Ice Age, growing food was a yuge challenge and many people starved to death.
Send them all to France. Fixed.
GLACIER NATIONAL PARK — Glacier National Park is removing signs that state all glaciers will be melted by 2020.
(Because NONE of the glaciers melted)
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