Note to Joe Biden, Climate Change Is Not Forcing Migration or Creating Refugees

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Note to Joe Biden, Climate Change Is Not Forcing Migration or Creating Refugees
By
H. Sterling Burnett -
February 16, 2021 0
 
A variety of news outlets, including Al Jazeera, Fox News, and Grist, have run stories in recent days discussing President Joe Biden’s executive order on refugees, “Rebuilding and Enhancing Programs to Resettle Refugees and Planning for the Impact of Climate Change on Migration.” Yet, there is no evidence whatsoever that climate change forcing people from their homes, creating climate refugees.

Joe Biden has given his national security advisor (NSA) 180 days to deliver a study on climate change’s impact on migration, including options for refugee resettlement. The NSA is supposed to develop its report in consultation with the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, and the Director of National Intelligence. Echoing the Biden administration’s talking points, an article in Scientific American supports Biden’s call for expanding immigration planning to account for climate refugees.

In a story titled, “Biden Pushes U.S.—and the World—to Help Climate Migrants,” Scientific American reports, “A growing number of migrants are forced from their homes each day by climate change …. “Extreme weather is the world’s leading cause of forced displacement. Droughts, wildfires and other weather events have displaced an average of 21.5 million people every year for the past decade ….”

https://climaterealism.com/2021/02/note-to-joe-biden-climate-change-is-not-forcing-migration-or-creating-refugees/