Hannah Barnes

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509 appearances 22 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2011 last heard Oct 2013

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More or Less · Fertility: when is too late? · 13 Sep 2013 podcast

It found 82% got pregnant within a year.

More or Less · Counting climate migrants · 31 Aug 2013 podcast

That's right. matched

But it's not just me. matched

Various experts in the field and even concerned charities have to spend a lot of their time correcting overblown statements like these. matched

And a surprising critic of that number, Alex Randall works for the Climate Outreach and Information Network, a charity which aims to raise awareness of climate refugees and their needs. matched

So you might think he'd be shouting the same alarming numbers from the rooftops, but he's not. matched

And even if all 20 million people had been displaced by climate change, they're unlikely to be looking to set up home in a new country. matched

Yeah, and what we're really talking about here is people who have to leave their homes because their lives and livelihoods are being adversely affected by climate change. matched

So not just because of sudden natural disasters, but because of a slow creep, changing weather systems, say, or rising sea levels. matched

But many experts don't expect this to cause mass migration. matched

Alex Randall explains why. matched

It doesn't. matched

The UN told me it cannot comment in any way on the accuracy of a figure we did not produce. matched

Quite. matched

Now, the figure is the work of a scientist called Norman Myers, who's based in Oxford in the UK. matched

Yeah, back in 2011, we looked at his claim that 50 million people would become climate refugees by 2010. matched

It had been quoted by some influential institutions. matched

But one year on, there was scant evidence that these people existed. matched

The UN had a map showing this prediction on the website, but hastily took it down, we discovered, when it started to get attention. matched

Initially, there was no explanation as to why it had disappeared. matched

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