Hard times for Aussie Alarmists – Flannery begs in new video

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.

“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.”

Now why does this come to mind?

“Predictions are hard, especially about the future.”, Yogi Berra, American philosopher

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.

A proper bludger

Did he buy himself a flash house?

Pointman

Do you wanna buy the beach? But wait – there’s more. We’ll chuck in a very serviceable used bridge with it.

Delingpole on Flannery and the scrapping of the Climate Commission.

As Jo Nova notes, while it may be a good day for the Australian taxpayer, it is far too late now to recoup the billions which have already been wasted on the “expert” advice of Flannery and his alarmist chums David Karoly and Will Steffen.
This agency propped up billions of dollars in pointless futile government spending trying to change the weather. Nothing will bring back money spent on desal plants that were mothballed when the floods came that real scientists predicted. Likewise the money burned on solar panels and windfarms is gone for good too, and still going.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100236795/australia-shows-us-all-the-way-by-sacking-its-useless-pointless-climate-commissioner-tim-flannery/

I wonder how that video would play in Detroit ?

Maybe we should just send him some cake.

pat says:
July 18, 2014 at 4:15 pm
***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:
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Good stuff, Pat. While the number of climate scientists sometimes seems to approach infinity, there are only about 200 nations. With several of them rejecting the warming hysteria, the consensus among nations looks to be going below 97%.

What to expect from someone named Flim Flammery.

keep the science in the headlines -says the arts graduate grifter.

The oft repeated claim of “97% of scientists agree on man made global warming” deserves closer inspection. Google the claim and be amazed at the full story. Hint, the total number were in fact 77. Pete.
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Flannery was on the Board of Siemens (manufacturer of the Desal plants that were built all over Australia – that are now mothballed) when he was predicting endless droughts!!!

I want to send him a bill for about a $2m. That’s what his ill considered policies pronouncements cost me in the downturn in property prices of the waterfront rental properties that I had purchased decades ago to fund my retirement. As a result of his idiocy and the stupidity of the NSW and Federal government policies regarding rising sea levels the prices of those properties went sour just after I reached 65 and wanted to sell them to invest in higher returning investments to provide an income in my (what has had to become) semi-retirement.

“This is a man the Gillard Government has paid $170,000″(a year)
For three days “work” for want of a better word, a week.
And lets not get into the costs to the taxpayersof Gillards climate commission.
Which was rhe first thing the coalition shut down.
He was specifically hired by Gillard who need a high profile figure to sell her CO/2 tax.
A former “Australian of the year” and global warmist fitted Gillards criteria perfectly.
The rightful criticisms that this global warming fraudster attracts are never ending.

Eric Worrall says:
“Pat, write the S Korea news as a “submit story” – very interesting” re the south korea ETS, but i’m no good at that, Eric. however, here is an update:
18 July: Korea Times: Park Si-soo: Gov’t may delay carbon trading plan
The government is expected to delay implementing a controversial carbon emissions trading program after the new finance minister called the plan “flawed.”
Major manufacturing companies have protested against the program and demanded the government delay it.
“I think the existing plan is likely to be modified to delay its implementation or to reduce financial burden on companies,” Park Ryun-min, an environment ministry official familiar with the case, told The Korea Times on Friday.
“We will soon start talking with two other ministries involved in the case ㅡ the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and the Ministry of Strategy and Finance ㅡ to tackle the issue.”…
During his visit to a conventional market on Thursday morning, Choi said, “If it’s found to have problems during preparation, we should revise related regulations to address them,” he said.
***Many problems had been found, although the program was set to take effect from January, he said.
“We will review the problems and then decide whether to implement it as scheduled,” he said…
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2014/07/123_161284.html

Yes Paul Evans of 6.34 pm, if Flannery’s clip wasn’t the height of impertinence and waste it would qualify as a contender for the World’s Funniest Videos.
So do not ask the hundreds of thousands of Australian residents that still pay rates for defunct desalination plants.
On the 16 Jun 2007 Flannery proclaimed:
“Desalination plants can provide insurance against drought. In Adelaide, Sydney and Brisbane, water supplies are so low they need desalinated water urgently, possibly in as little as 18 months. Of course, these plants should be supplied by zero-carbon power sources.”
Did Flannery provide more detailed advice to the Labor State Governments that were running the states at the time on how to deal with his predicted perennial droughts? Don’t know – but we do know how the governments re-acted.
In 2010 a desalination plant was constructed at Kurnell south of Sydney at a cost of $2 billion. In Jun 2012 when the Warragamba dam was full again the plant was shut down and has been in moth balls, or the more promotable “water security” mode, ever since.
However to keep it in this mode costs half a million a day and even though the present state government was politically astute enough to sell off the white elephant to private enterprise, it is the residents who are liable for paying for its upkeep for the next 50 years.
But wait there is more. If you ever drive from Sydney to Canberra, as you approach the capital you will pass the hideous Bungendore wind farm that was built ostensibly to power the Kurnell desalination plant. If the plant is in moth balls where does the power goes to from the Bungendore windmills (when they are working)?
http://images.smh.com.au/2012/11/20/3810636/dan-20121120192610289226-620×349.jpg
Surely Canberra has all the power it needs from the Snowy Mountains Hydro Authority?
Of course we also have the same story in Queensland with the Tugun plant on the Gold Coast. This was completed in 2009 after numerous technical delays for a cost of $1.2 billion and put into standby mode in December 2010. But that too continues to drain a million dollars a week for feed and board.
Same same for the South Australian and Victorian plants. Love this description from Wiki on the Victorian Wonthaggi plant:
“On completion the plant was immediately placed into standby mode as the reservoirs in Melbourne were over 80% full. However a $1.8 million per day fee is payable to the construction consortium. This minimum fee is payable for a total of 27 years after completion. Even if no water is required the total payment is between $18 and $19 billion. Nonetheless, with the ever present climate change effects witnessed along recent years, some argue the project, as a preventive measure, was a complete success”!!!!!
No doubt that is a Flannery benchmark.

Flannery not only has a house a water level on the tidal Hawkesbury River, but also bought the house next door.
The desalination plant at Tugun has never pumped a drop of water. In fact the salt rusted the outlet pipes. Labor made a huge song and dance about global warming and the high priest Flannery. So they built a pipeline from Wivenhoe Dam to Toowoomba to guarantee water supply but apparently the pipe diameter is too small, so the friction head is too large to let water actually flow..
Then of course there is the Wivenhoe Dam releases that flooded Brisbane and Ipswich. Because of the Global Warming scaremongering, they refused to follow the manual properly and only released water when the dam was in imminent danger of failing. At least that is what is alleged in a mammoth civil action being held in the next state because Labor changed the rules that they could not be held responsible.
Then Flannery travelled Australia as part of the Climate Change Committee speaking to people. Only trouble was, he refused to take sceptic questions or even a simple correction question. The only people allowed to speak were warmists. So Flannery then said over 90% of people supported his failed predictions.

HUCKSTER

I await the day Mikey Mann has to join Flannery begging for money because the climate scam has played out.

I am sure readers will be enlightened by the extraordinary vision for the future!!
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/flannery_explains_his_vision_for_us_ants

Jack, believe or not, my ex and I were interested in this house to buy, decades ago. I was indeed on the banks of the Hawkesbury river. One problem at the time, maybe different now, only access was by boat! $40,000. There was a way in via bush roads, gravel only and many klms from the highway. It was surrounded by thick bush that was suss to bush fires. It wouldn’t be a family home we thought, and no mansion either. Possibly a good fishing lodge if you had a boat to start with. But not swimming! Noah’s arks frequent the river, like Bull sharks. They can live in salt and fresh water. Good place to hide in against the media attention. As it is tidal, the water would drop away one day? LOL

Hi SM,
It might come as a shock to you, but after Flannery said, “We’re seeing it now, in the evidence before our eyes in our rivers and creeks, and of course the computer models in the global models have been predicting just this now for some years. I think all evidence says that this is our new climate and we have to get by with less water than we’ve ever had before,” QLD, NSW and Victoria were subject to “extreme weather” flooding, the result of carbon dioxide lifting its forcing foot off the warming accelerator and slamming it onto the hydrological accelerator, apparently. Magical stuff, all predicted by your infallible prophets.
“Less water than we’ve ever had before”
http://www.schnews.org.uk/images/568-aussie-large.jpg

Khwarizmi says:
July 18, 2014 at 10:18 pm
Hi K, thanks for your contribution.
As for Melbourne, where I have lived all my life, water storages currently are at approx. 75% capacity, nowhere near full despite all that rain. If you check back through the records you will see that the closest we have been to full was in 1996 when storages were at approx. 97% of capacity. During the 1990’s daily per capita water consumption was around 460lt: it is currently around 240lt pppd. Just imagine where we’d be if we had continued consuming water as we did in the 1990’s. Inflows to our storages are also well down on long term levels.
You would also know Perth is heavily reliant on not one but two Desal Plants.
Cheers

A loser of biblical proportions is this knob.
We are paying taxes to support this imbecile.
And he has good company, all these alarmists drive around in SUVs whilst frothing at the mouth about how we are living in a world of dangerous climate change. The fact they produce not one iota of data to support the theory is irrelevant.
The only thing dangerous is there are too many like Flim Flam around, who are never held to account.

“Flannery has an impressive track record of being wrong”
Isn’t this true of most climate scientists!.

When it comes to global warming fraudsters, Flannery just keeps on giving.
How’s that saying go, “birds of a feather stick together?”
If you want more just google Turney of the ship of fools infamy and Flannery together.
Flannery reckons he’s out of it but he still owns over a hundred thousand shares in captain tools global warming charcoal laundering enterprise.
“Turney is also a director of a new company called Carbonscape, which set up a microwave-powered kiln in Blenheim, in New Zealand’s South Island, in October last year and has begun producing biochar commercially. Scientist and global warming activist Tim Flannery has just joined the board.”

Hi SM,
thanks for conceding that your deranged climate priest got his prophesy wrong; that it did in fact rain, and it did so in buckets. Glad you didn’t try to set some weird new goalposts based on the very comfortable water levels in a system that includes 1 dam–the Thompson–designed by foresighted people (with no interest in atmospheric voodoo) to protect Melbourne in the very likely event of a drought lasting up to TEN YEARS. And it worked.
As you point out, after only 3 years, the system is already at 75% capacity, and we don’t have hose bans anymore, like we did in, ummm, 1939: http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/page/596137?zoomLevel=1
Our hottest day is was in 1851, btw, and our priestsare now freaking out over the prospect of imminent cooling: https://theconversation.com/what-climate-tipping-points-should-we-be-looking-out-for-27108 Yes, they are.
The cooling will be caused by your internet carbon footprint, of course, RM – and some jetsetting by our very own crazy cartoonist/cook, John Cook. Thanks for playing.

Summary: “Think of the children!”
I believe Lord Monckton would call this argumentum ad misericordiam.

Looks like my response to Lee went missing. One more try.
Lee,
Flannery has asked for donations to help fund the service he provides. Offering a donation is optional, and is not a burden on the taxpayer: the donations are not even tax deductible. If ROM’s opinion is that Flannery is a leech then what of organisations like the Salvation Army, who rely heavily on tax deductible donations.
To me, accusing people of being leeches by asking for voluntary donations while your hand is deep in the taxpayers pocket reeks of hypocrisy.
I point out most of Queensland was not flooded in 2011 and 2013, the flooding was restricted to coastal areas with very little if any rain reaching west of the divide. Look at the map attached to the article; almost all areas west of the divide are drought declared and even some coastal areas.
As for the “record 80%” it is not the ABC making that claim, it is in fact the Queensland Agriculture Minister.

Khwarizmi says:
July 19, 2014 at 12:46 am
“Hi SM,
thanks for conceding that your deranged climate priest got his prophesy wrong; that it did in fact rain, and it did so in buckets.”
And so it did K but as you seemed to have missed, 75% capacity is not full. In fact our storages have been nowhere near full for 15 years, despite per capita consumption being halved.
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In your earlier post you quoted Flannery:
“I think all evidence says that this is our new climate and we have to get by with less water than we’ve ever had before,”
You must have missed the part where I stated water consumption has dropped from 460lt pppd to 240lt pppd. You supplied the quote, I supplied the facts.
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“Glad you didn’t try to set some weird new goalposts based on the very comfortable water levels in a system that includes 1 dam–the Thompson–designed by foresighted people (with no interest in atmospheric voodoo) to protect Melbourne in the very likely event of a drought lasting up to TEN YEARS. And it worked.”
Yes I know: I spent 10 years working with those foresighted people in the MMBW. And yes, it did work: just – the Thompson bottomed out at 16% of capacity but the halving of per capita consumption saved it from completely emptying. Even now with all those bucket loads of rain as you say, it’s still only at 78% of capacity.
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“As you point out, after only 3 years, the system is already at 75% capacity”
Given your statement “that it did in fact rain, and it did so in buckets” one would have thought we would be at 100% capacity by now.
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The rest of your post, like much the first part is basically incoherent.

SM says:
July 18, 2014 at 7:03 pm
ROM says:
July 18, 2014 at 4:30 pm
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 ]
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Hi ROM,
can you recall what you posted on Nova’s Site?
Here it is :
ROM
July 18, 2014 at 11:19 am · Reply
We are on the pension, something we never wanted to be on as it is a burden for others who have to support us through their taxes,………………………
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Well SM your own true green and colours are really showing and I would suggest that you are the archetypal and devious cherry picker of quotes as are many of your ilk.
Perhaps a little honesty on your part might have gone a long way so to complete my quote from JoNova’s blog;
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“My wife and I are 76 years old so I assume that passes as being one of the older generation.
We are on the pension, something we never wanted to be on as it is a burden for others who have to support us through their taxes, taxes which I might add I also have paid the odd few millions [ or ] so through the income earning parts of my [ 60 years of ] farming life.”
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We were over 70 years old before we took up the pension and then the only reason we did so was because the very dry decade with a couple of total crop failures including a million dollar loss of a crop only three to four weeks from harvest when we had 4 consecutive days of over 40 degrees right when that Lentil crop was flowering which along with the extremely dry decade from about 1998 to about 2008 about crippled our’s and my son’s economic ability to continue farming.
Unlike Flannery we coped for ourselves through all those 70 plus years of my life without any handouts of more than a few dollars from the tax payers and governments through all that time. Had circumstance been different we still would NOT be, unlike Flannery, taking tax payers money, money that allows us to at least continue living very modestly and carefully.
I trust of course SM that you NEVER EVER revert to any vestiges of hypocrisy yourself of course
that would give anybody any reason to suggest that you are both a cherry picking and devious individual or that you are a hypocrite yourself.

Eric Worrall says:
July 19, 2014 at 3:04 am
SM
Hi Eric,
It may come as a bit of a shock, but most of Queensland, the State where you live, is drought declared.
Gee, a drought in Australia, must be due to our unnatural fiddling with nature.
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You must have forgotten your own words Eric.
“He repeatedly predicted Australia was now in permanent drought, shortly before Australia experienced so much rain,”
If there was so much rain why is much of Australia still in drought??

lee says:
July 19, 2014 at 2:52 am
SM thank you for your reply. I live in WA and am aware of the desal plants. I am also aware that the catchment areas are also being overgrown, so that runoff doesn’t flow as well into the dams.
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Lee,
Catchment areas need to be vegetated, large trees preferably. Runoff over bare ground will eventually cause the dams to silt up. This why all catchments are closed to public access and logging except where politicians get a nice kick in the back pocket from logging companies.
Some drought affected areas did receive rain, but 500mm in a day is useless if there is no rain for another 12 months.

I have to admit, that Flannery video really made me think. I will gladly forward to the good doctor my next (err… first) check from BigOil (TM) just as soon as it arrives.