Anyway, I may have missed it, but I haven’t seen any news of these people out protesting against the actions of the Syrians and other Middle Eastern countries whose governments are currently killing their own people with gay abandon. Just saying.

A few days ago Gavin Atkins of the Asian Correspondent asked the question: what happened to the climate change refugees?

Gavin was talking about the UN’s 2005 claim that there would be 50 million climate change refugees from around the globe by 2010. Whenever the UN talks about climate change they mean anthropogenic climate change (i.e. it’s human caused). Thus, they meant 50 million refugees crowding into our countries because of our carbon emitting industry, agriculture and transport.

Of course, these figures were just a projection (read guess) based on a climate model (read projection; read guess; actually read model deliberately calibrated to deliver the desired result, but that’s another story). These types of “studies” are used to try and shock and shame people and governments into action.

The UN even published a nice map of the countries that would be affected.

Anyhow, our friend Gavin looked at census data from the countries that should by now be experiencing mass exodus due to detrimental climate change and found that most if not all of the countries he had data for showed an, wait for it, increase in population since 2005. Now this doesn’t prove anything about anthropogenic climate change, but the UN’s reaction proves something about advocates of severely curtailing our life styles in the pursuit of eliminating a trace gas which is essential for all life on earth.

Upon realising that they had foolishly left a report with a near term date on its projection on their website, and that skeptical bloggers and media (yes there are a few not blind or complicit in the climate change fraud) were making some hay, the UN quickly took down the offending page (notice any Kiwi readers, the word is “offending” not “affending”). Still, once on the web, always on the web and Google had a copy in its cache (see image above).

Guess what, Google is a global warming propagandist so they appear to have removed the cached image of the UN’s website. And Google claims to “not be evil”?

The coup de grace in this little propaganda tale, is that the warmists are rehashing the exact same story: 50 million climate change refugees by …. (anyone?) …. 2020!

If at first you don’t succeed, push the expected date out a few years.

The warmists will say that this is a non-story, that whether it’s 2010 or 2020 it’s going to happen sooner or later and they just got the timing wrong and the sceptics are just cherry picking one story when a bizillion other scientists and studies “prove” that anthropogenic climate change is real and dangerous. However, the point of this little story is the demonstration of how the warmists propaganda machine works: make catastrophic claims and publicise them with the aid of a compliant media, ignore and suppress the claims if they are proven wrong, make new claims and push the date out so they can’t be proven wrong.

As to claims that sceptics are like conspiracy theorists, picking on tiny details which have no bearing on the overall truth, this is a fallacy. Virtually every warmist claim can be and has been shown to be wrong on theoretical, and perhaps more importantly, observational grounds.

See Watts Up With That for more detailed coverage of this issue.

So why write a blog? I suppose it’s a common human desire to express yourself, to be heard (or in this case read). Even if no one actually reads what we write, it is still satisfying to have had our thoughts published in a public place.

A great advantage of writing, as opposed to having a verbal discussion, is that you have time to gather your thoughts, to put forward your ideas and arguments without interruption, and to edit what you write until you’re really happy with it.

Unlike a conversation, in the case of a blog, if you suddenly realise the next day that you should have made such-and-such a point, or added some clever witticism, you can easily edit your blog post.

So here I am, this is what I have to say. But, will I write another post, and another after that?

We shall see.