Number of climate refugees overstated

From an advocacy perspective, one can appreciate that alarmist lobbying - extending to pressure for multinational approaches such as a ''climate refugee'' treaty - may generate attention and mobilise civil society.

Nevertheless, it is imperative that advocacy is well-informed, because if there is an absence of rigorous analysis and empirical evidence to support claims being made, it will not achieve its ends. Indeed, messy work may lead to a backlash and attempts to discredit the phenomenon of climate change-related human movement altogether.

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Cancún forests deal is 'wrapped up and ready to move' – or is it? | Environment | guardian.co.uk

It hadn't been entirely without political risks for Norway either, Stoltenberg said. He said it had been hard to persuade Norwegian voters in the depths of a recession that forest projects were in their interest. "It's hard to win elections on a message of high taxation," he said. "We won election last year but you never know, elections are uncertain things."

Cancun Crap Out | The Resilient Earth

And so the Cancun Conference closes, not with a bang but a whimper. No new agreements—in fact, at the beginning of the conference Japan repudiated the Kyoto protocol. The brief statement made by Jun Arima, an official in the government's economics trade and industry department, was the strongest yet made against the 1997 agreement. “Japan will not inscribe its target under the Kyoto protocol on any conditions or under any circumstances,” Arima said.

There is little doubt that this conference has been an even bigger a failure than Copenhagen. Once again, the world's collected climate change fanatics threw the dice and lost. In gambling parlance, Cancun crapped out. No progress to show and embarrassment all around—I love it when a plan falls apart.

Guest Blogger Roger Helmer MEP: Climate Conference Set to Crash and Burn? | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.

At the end of the day, despite small nuggets of agreement, Cancun looks likely to end in disappointment just as Copenhagen did. But a successful, legally-binding emissions treaty would be a disaster for the world economy and would do huge damage to America’s interests (and to Europe’s, though they don’t seem to have noticed). So let me make an appeal to America’s climate realists and conservatives: if against all expectation a deal is agreed in Cancun, use any means you can to pressure Congress to reject it. That may not be too tough a task.