Story submitted by Eric Worrall
Tim Flannery, one time head of the government Climate Commission in Australia, until it was disbanded by the current government, has released a video begging for donations to “keep science in the news”. A year after raising a million dollars, he now needs more money.
Flannery has an impressive track record of being wrong. He repeatedly predicted Australia was now in permanent drought, shortly before Australia experienced so much rain, alarmists blamed the Aussie downpour for a drop in sea level.
Flannery’s predictions of permanent drought probably helped cause the squandering of billions of dollars on desalination plants.
The following is a list of some of Flannery’s more entertaining mistakes.
https://anhonestclimatedebate.wordpress.com/tag/tim-flannery-failed-predictions/
If Flannery is short of cash, perhaps he should try getting a job, rather than holding his hat out for other people’s cash, while taking a walk along a photogenic beach. He should certainly stop pretending he has any skill at predicting the future.
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Yes, an absolutely disastrous series of predictions from this Joker. Its our loss that Labour and the Greens formed their ill conceived alliance or he would have gone much sooner.
Unfortunately you can’t do much with a set of unused multi billion dollar desalination plants.
Thanks Tim.
Flim-Flannery
“Help us keep science in the headlines.”
Translation: “Without the daily doom delivery it’s kind of hard to frighten little children and maintain the charade that pays our salaries.”
Hey Tim, did you have to leave your waterside property yet?
Nothing like provable facts to get in the way of alarmism. Now if we can only get the test of the world to follow Australia’s example…….
Watch out for those rising sea levels behind you there, Flannery.
If I had access to a beach like that I’m sure I could earn some cash…
People would pay for any services in such a beautiful location.
Lucky sod
***something else for Flannery to stress over.
as expected, South Korea is having second thoughts about an ETS after Australia abandons the carbon tax/ETS:
18 July: Reuters: S.Korean finmin says planned carbon market flawed, wants delay – paper
South Korea’s finance minister has called its impending emissions trading market “flawed in many ways”, hinting that he would pressure other ministries to delay the planned 2015 launch, a local newspaper reported.
Choi Kyung-hwan, who is also deputy prime minister, said problems had been found with the scheme, which is due to start in January, and that the government would review them before deciding whether to delay it, modify it or implement it as planned, The Korea Times reported on Friday.
South Korea’s finance, industry and environment ministries are divided over the scheme and its potential impact on the economy, a spokesman with the country’s environment ministry said, adding that nothing had been decided thus far.
South Korea’s carbon market has come under fire from businesses, who want its start delayed until 2020. Industry groups earlier this week warned that it could cost firms a total of 27.5 trillion to 29.6 trillion Korean won ($26.7-$28.9 billion) over the next three years…
***Choi’s comments come a day after Australia’s parliament voted to repeal its carbon tax, which would have evolved into an emissions trading market next July…
http://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFL6N0PT3CZ20140718
Now why does this come to mind?
Reaching for my checkbook as we speak.
“Predictions are hard, especially about the future.”, Yogi Berra, American philosopher
Toss the fraud out.
Once again the leech like Flim Flam Flannery proves that he is utterly incapable of earning his own living and like a leech, is totally dependent on the continuing flow of OPM. [ Other People’s Money ] to support him in his salubrious grand standing life style. An expensive life style that far exceeds that of the average Australian’s whose money he now demands and expects to continue to be forth coming to support him and his inane and ideologically bankrupt climate catastrophe beliefs.
I am going to set up a lemonade stall outside my house and the lenonade will be free
A proper bludger
If he needs cash then he should sell his waterfront property. Thats right, the man who predicted around 20 feet of sea level rise decided to buy a very plush home right on the sea front. As they say, actions speak louder than words……
Did he buy himself a flash house?
tango says: July 18, 2014 at 4:37 pm
I am going to set up a lemonade stall outside my house and the lenonade will be free
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I’d like to learn more about this free lenonade . Is it the Beatle version or the Stalinist version? And boy was it difficult to stop my word processor from correcting the spelling so I could make this lousy joke.
Pointman
“Here! Here! Let’s all work to keep quack (crony) science in the media! Here! Here!”
Do you wanna buy the beach? But wait – there’s more. We’ll chuck in a very serviceable used bridge with it.
This is gold.
Topher should do a follow up video with him walking along a beautiful beach ticking off all the failures of Flannery and Sons – ending with a plea not to fund them and fund him instead!
Delingpole on Flannery and the scrapping of the Climate Commission.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100236795/australia-shows-us-all-the-way-by-sacking-its-useless-pointless-climate-commissioner-tim-flannery/
Notice Flannery’s long sleeves pulled up? Its absolutely freezing East Coast Australia at the moment, alternating between heavy rain, snow (in the highlands), and freezing cold but sunny winter high pressure systems, but at the last moment someone in Flannery’s crew must have realised – it wouldn’t do to produce a global warming promotion video, while looking heavily rugged up against the cold 🙂
I wonder how that video would play in Detroit ?