The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.
Out on a Limb
“Geithner: World Faces ‘Significant Policy Challenges’ “–headline, Dow Jones Newswires, April 17
Bottom Stories of the Day
- “Facebook Looks to Cash In on User Data”–headline, Los Angeles Times, April 17
- “Ralph Reed Says He Has No Plans to Be Trump’s Campaign Manager”–headline, Puffington Host, April 18
Ministry of Truth
On Thursday we noted that the website of the U.N. Environment Programme featured a prediction “that climate change would create 50 million climate refugees by 2010” and featuring a map to show where they’d come from. It’s 2011 now, the refugees never materialized, and, as blogger Aaron Worthing notes, the map had disappeared by Friday morning–though Worthing reproduces it and Anthony Watts of the Daily Caller has a high-res copy.
Watts also links to a February 2011 Agence France-Presse story titled “50 Million ‘Environmental Refugees’ by 2020, Experts Say.” The experts attribute the warning to the U.N. It’s a good bet that in 2021 the 50 million climate refugees will be by 2030.
For more “Best of the Web” click here and look for thef “Best of the Web Today” link in the middle column below “Today’s Columnists.”
