GRAIN OF SALT DEPARTMENT - AT 7:25 A.M. ET: 

BONN, Germany (AP) -- A report says climate change is becoming a major driver in the migration of tens of millions of people battered by storms, droughts and the inundation of their lands by sea water.

Hmm.  Sounds serious...until you get to the next paragraph:

Estimates of the number of climate migrants are difficult to assess, but the new report by CARE International and the U.N. University cites estimates by the International Organization for Migration that 200 million people will be driven from their homes by mid-century for environmental reasons, including climate change.

Ah yes, some truth telling:  Estimates are difficult to assess.  And the report is based on projections, the lifeblood of the global-warming religion.  And millions will be driven from their homes by environmental reasons, including climate change.

But people have always moved because of climate and environmental factors.  How many people do you know who've moved south, especially as they age, because they like the weather down there.  And they often do it after a particularly bad winter.

More brilliance from the U.N.  The reporter should have asked some very tough questions.  Apparently that did not happen.

June 10, 2009