A strong cold wind of reform is sweeping around Australia:
PROFESSOR Tim Flannery has been sacked by the Abbott Government from his $180,000 a year part time Chief Climate Commissioner position with the agency he runs to be dismantled immediately.
Environment Minister Greg Hunt called Prof Flannery this morning to tell him a letter formally ending his employment was in the mail.
In the letter, Mr Hunt tells Prof Flannery:
“The Climate Commission does not have an ongoing role, and consequently I am writing to advise you that the Climate Commission has been dissolved, with effect from the date of this letter.”
h/t to WUWT reader “New Broom”
The question now is, which NGO will pick up this fool?
This truly is a great day in Australia, I am glad I am one of the millions who helped vote this government in to rid us of this green madness!
OM Gosh. I enjoyed that. I need a smoke.
schadenfreude
180K for a part time job!
Doubtless he’ll leap aboard the next train to leave Gravy Central.
Oh Happy Day
It’s good to see this happening so quickly and so decisively. Australia-wide Greens must be trembling in their boots – particularly the alarmist sort in positions of power. Nice, nice, nice! I’ve even got some champagne.
A hearty cheers to all! 🙂
He as had some years of fat wages , little work, and way to much power , so zero sympathy .
And worse he will now sell himself as a ‘victim’ , if some green NGO want to keep him in the ‘style ‘ his become used to , let the fools .
Flannery is the man who advised the Government that south-east Australia would be in permanent drought due to AGW, so no new catchment dams should be built, and the money spent on desalination plants instead.
Outcome: South-East Australia awash with water, billions of dollars wasted on (mothballed) desalination plants, not enough catchment to prevent the kind of flooding which killed 38 people in Queensland, while Flannery pocketed a fortune.
He’s getting off lightly, IMO.
At last Flannery feels the Mad Monk’s boot where the sun does not shine. Only the Aussies can call their PM the Mad Monk! Bully for them.
Roger
Common sense is making a return. Flim Flam Flannery truly represented where we were going wrong.
There is an article on the publicly funded warmist blog “The Conversation” I am banned from that blog but someone should ask the author Andy Pitman how long it would take the world to cool if human activity ceased tomorrow he has previously stated twenty to thirty years not the thousand claimed by Tim Flannery. When I asked Ian Chub the Chief Scientist who was right his answer was quote “I would not have a clue not a clue”. So ask Andy Pitman again and see if he has changed his tune.
does anybody know what would Flannery actually do in his job during a typical if part-time week?
Sad news, really sad.
I am currently receiving medical treatment and am unable to celebrate properly with champagne. 🙂
Australia’s institutions are a target rich environment. Researchers are continuing their alarming stories, the latest is scaring the possums right out of their trees: http://pindanpost.com/2013/09/19/possums-scared-out-of-their-overheated-trees/ Keep those knives sharp, there are a lot more cuts needed besides Flannery and his merry band of fools …
Space case.
@ur momisugly Pat…nice tune.
Comedy Central or the new Monty Phython Flying Circus?
Greg S says:
September 18, 2013 at 11:52 pm
Sad news, really sad.
I am currently receiving medical treatment and am unable to celebrate properly with champagne. 🙂
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I’ll do it for you – I’ve got lots. 😀
Rick Bradford says:
September 18, 2013 at 11:50 pm
good points. Perhaps someone (in Oz?) could put together a complete list of the OZ CC project comings and goings over the years of its existence? Plus a list of the various costings. Perhaps this would be a good way to ‘confirm’ that the science has been wrong and the money wasted has been truly horrendous? A good reinforcement for the 50:1 video?
I am soooo freaking happy that my taxes are no longer supporting this [snip]
Good day for science in Australia
And it’s more red madness dressed up as green?
Well done guys!
Now we need the EU to come to their senses…
Maybe Tim Flannery can find a position with an ant colony. That guy sounds dangerous.
Oh no they got rid of captain planet!
I’m reminded of an old saying
“Keep your friends close and your enemies even closer”
This priest in the Church of Thermagedon needs to be watched closely, where ever he resurfaces