The following facts dismiss the myth that anyone has been displaced by sea level rise.
According to the South Pacific Regional Environment Program, two small uninhabited Kiribati islets, Tebua Tarawa and Abanuea, disappeared underwater in 1999.[25]
The mines were depleted by 1980, precipitating the evacuation of much of the population.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/country_profiles/1168527.stm
While well vegetated, most islands also show signs of deforestation.[25] They have been logged (particularly of higher-value timber), subjected to wide-scale slash-and-burn agriculture, converted to coconut plantations and cattle ranches, and show evidence of increased soil erosion and landslides.[25]
Freshwater is becoming increasingly scarce and many upland watersheds are being deforested and degraded.[25
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanuatu
The 1970 Bhola cyclone was a devastating tropical cyclone that struck East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) and India's West Bengal on November 12, 1970. It was the deadliest tropical cyclone ever recorded, and one of the deadliest natural disasters in modern times.[2] Up to 500,000 people lost their lives in the storm, primarily as a result of the storm surge that flooded much of the low-lying islands of the Ganges Delta.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970_Bhola_cyclone
So that dismisses any claims about Kiribati, Vanuatu or Bhola Islands being affected by the myth of AGW caused sea level rise. May as well say that the poor people of Fukushima were affected by sea level rise.
Who is it, exactly, that is saying that sea level rise due to climate change has displaced anyone to date?
Well all these people for a start.
http://tcktcktck.org/2011/06/counting-human-affects-climate-change-42-3-million-people-displaced-2010/
http://tcktcktck.org/2011/02/fresh-air-matter-money-money-tuvalu-doesn%e2%80%99t/
Entire communities in Alaska, Mozambique, and the Carteret Islands have become among the first to be relocated.
http://www.ejfoundation.org/page563.html
Tuvalu a beautiful island state consisting of 9 atolls has been inhabited by Polynesians for almost 3000 year but the largest atoll has already lost a meter of land around its circumference. New Zealand has agreed to accept the 11,600 citizens of Tuvalu if or when their country is overtaken by the rising water; in fact phased relocation has already begun.
http://www.saawinternational.org/environmentalrefugees.htm
Chosen Answer:
The “United Nations Environment Programme predicted that climate change would create 50 million climate refugees by 2010.” — http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/04/15/the-un-disappears-50-million-climate-refugees-then-botches-the-disappearing-attempt/
In case you think that A Watt made any of that up, here is the google search which verifies everything A Watt came up with: http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:5OWrvQs5P5YJ:maps.grida.no/go/graphic/fifty-million-climate-refugees-by-2010+http://maps.grida.no/go/graphic/fifty-million-climate-refugees-by-2010&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&source=www.google.com&nucr=CAEQvInRj93Vpv-SARjnqarxBA
Many of these refugees were supposed to come from submerged islands. This incredibly wrong prediction has since been retracted, and the site where it existed now claims it was not their stuff. http://www.grida.no/general/4700.aspx
So, nobody is currently claiming that there are any refugees, but there was definitely a previous claim that there would be many by now.
This does not mean that nobody has ever been displaced. Sea level was higher than currently back in the Dark Ages. http://www.salt.org.il/sealevel.html
by: Portland-Joe
on: 23rd July 11