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- News on the
Net  Tuesday, April 19, 2011

By Axel Bojanowski, Speigel

Six years ago, the United Nations issued a dramatic warning that
the world would have to cope with 50 million climate refugees by
2010. But now that those migration flows have failed to materialize,
the UN has distanced itself from the forecasts. On the contrary,
populations are growing in the regions that had been identified as
environmental danger zones.

It was a dramatic prediction that was widely picked up by the
world’s media. In 2005, the United Nations Environment Programme
(UNEP) and the United Nations University declared that 50 million
people could become environmental refugees by 2010, fleeing the
effects of climate change.

But now the UN is distancing itself from the forecast: “It is not
a UNEP prediction,” a UNEP spokesman told SPIEGEL ONLINE. The
forecast has since been removed from UNEP’s website.

Cover up: UN tries to erase failed climate refugee
prediction

By Gavin Atkins, Asian
Correspondent

The United Nations Environment Programme has tried to erase one
of its glaring failed predictions about climate refugees by removing
a a map from its website purporting to show where 50 million climate
refugees will come from by 2010.

After Asian Correspondent reviewed its findings earlier this
week, the story has been linked to by websites around the world such
as Investor News, American Spectator and was referred to in
yesterday’s Australian newspaper and even got a mention on Fox
News.

However, the website which is maintained by GRID-Arendal, an
official United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) collaborating
centre, has now deleted the map.

Past Alarm. World’s Coral: 40% gone by 2010

ABC
Newswatch

On Monday 22 April 2002 ABC’s flagship current affairs program, 4
Corners, broadcast the following alarming prediction in a report
titled: Beautiful one day.
Across the world, coral reefs are
turning into marine deserts. It’s estimated that more than a quarter
have been lost and that 40 per cent could be gone by 2010.

From the transcript:

According to the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network, 10 per
cent of the world’s reefs were lost by 1992.
27 per cent were
lost by the year 2000.
And it’s expected 40 per cent will be gone
by 2010.

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