Hannah Barnes
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509 appearances
22 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2011
last heard Oct 2013
Hannah Barnes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Back in 2011, we looked at his claim that 50 million people would become climate refugees by 2010.
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It had been quoted by some influential institutions.
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But one year on, there was scant evidence that these people existed.
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The UN had a map showing this prediction on the website, but hastily took it down, we discovered...
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when it started to get attention.
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Initially, there was no explanation as to why it had disappeared.
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Just a totally bizarre message came up when you went to click on the link.
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Well, eventually the fog lifted and a spokesman for the United Nations Environment Programme told me the map had been removed because it was wrong.
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They had, and this work had been unquestioningly adopted by all sorts of eminent bodies, like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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But some academics had doubted his numbers from the start.
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Stephen Castles from the International Migration Institute at Oxford University outlined some of his concerns to me at the time.
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Yes, it's his projection for the number of climate refugees there'll be by 2050.
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Yes, and he defended his methods to us at the time.
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But if you can't prove that there are, then we shouldn't be making the statement, should we?
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We can't prove it.
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Well, to be fair to Norman Myers, he did make it clear in his research that not everyone he classes as an environmental refugee will flee their country.
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He just said that they'll be forced to move, and that could well be internally.
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But that's tens of thousands, not tens of millions.
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I am, I am.
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It's just a bit quiet on the COD news front at the moment.
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