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?
David Karoly and Will Steffen also went the same way as Tim Flannery.
Three for the price of one, and it is only the day after the new government was sworn into office.
Our new Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, already has his staff busy drafting legislation to repeal the Australian Carbon Tax laws put into place by the previous government.
There’s a rumor doing the circuit that these impotent climate alarmists are going to revive their careers by forming a musical act called The Climate Cassandras. UN sponsorship and greenpiss funding has been made available under the Climate Alarmist Refugee Bill. TRZ has leaked details that the Cookser will be in charge of costumes.
Perhaps it would have been more sensible to have kept the commission but staffed it with more intelligent people. Eco-loons don’t go away, and they never shut up. They need an organisation to take them on with suitable robust responses.
Beer Holiday says:
September 19, 2013 at 12:07 am
Oh no they got rid of captain planet!
But that won’t affect the planet the rest of us live on.
I saw the “sacked” and just assumed it was another sceptic losing their job.
So when I realised it was an alarmist … I felt a little hypocritical for a second … until I realised that unlike sceptics it is not that the individual was being targeted, but the job was going because the organisation was (rightly) being shut down.
Just watched NikfromNYC’s video, hilarious.
The man is ‘axiomatically’ some kind of one world communist, and assumes he will naturally be part of the ruling ‘brain’ of the global super organism that will ‘co-ordinate’ (ie control) the rest. Like an Orwellian pig he tells us we are all in this together and all equal but some of course are more equal than others – I don’t think he imagines his role as a gardener or a soldier ant.
Priceless.
Expect a ‘visiting professorship’ in a University with a part time consultancy job with the EPA. He may even be able to make that US$180K tax free. (No sarc because we have already seen similar Australian ‘climate academics’ take that same path)
Great for Australia, but I’m terrified the guy will be looking for ‘work’ in the UK now!
@max Roberts.
That would be the “Mostly Natural Climate Change with a Tiny Bit of Hard to Detect Anthropogenic Influence Commission”
MNCCTBHDAIC…
I am sitting back laughing and having a wine or to . maybe when they sack 2000 more from the climate dep,t we will be drinking more wine its a great day for Australia
American Congress take note – the amount of money Abbott will save, taking an axe to climate boondoggles and foreign aid, will make a serious difference to the Aussie economy.
If you’re wondering how to avoid the next US debt limit crisis, you can start by finding the guts to defund all the cr@p the democrats have so far pushed you into accepting.
Great to see my wish in my last post coming true !
The IPCC are going to need a replacement for soft porn novelist Pachauri in the not too distant future. Flannery could do much more economic damage there than just in his native Australia.
In a sane world Flannery would be unemployable, but in our world he will emerge somewhere determined to spread alarmist doctrine far and wide. My guess is we have not heard the last of this purveyor of bad science and scary fiction.
$180,000 a year part time? For how long? A bitter, bitter joke on us all.
Watched that video no wonder that Bob Brown (last departed leader of the greens) had a great rapport with Flim Flannery, what with Bobs Aliens and Flims organisms and ant colonies, they could have ruled the world.
I heard Tim Flannery on radio today he was tipping a bucket on the C.S.I.R.O. as a political directed organisation, unlike his “independent” Climate Commission – gosh the rabid turn on each other when their snouts are dragged out of the trough of public funding.
Still a long way to go as the radio presenter didn’t even have the smarts to remind him of his outrageous (and wrong) climate predictions. He was a useful and malleable personality willing to say whatever the government of the day seemed to want and one that thinks he “earned” his $184,000 salary – glad to see him go and hope for the reinstatement of David Bellamy who was so badly treated when he declared the Mann and Gore claims as rubbish.
We need to put on trial all those who deceitfully spread warmist propaganda, including Tim Flannery. Those that gave the orders and those that followed the orders to deceive the people and cause economic loss must be held to account. It is unfair that the taxpayer has to fund ideology based on fraud and self interest. Just hope the cat starts to come out of the bag on the whole AGW fraud and the motivations behind it.
Such a good day for all our cousins in Australia.
From all here in England…wishing we had a similar government!
What a wonderful, wonderful day, not only for us Aussies, but for EVERYONE on Earth.
The boondoggle is coming to a screeching halt, and slowly the herd individually shakes their head, and says “What was I thinking?”
The decline (and they tried to hide the decline!) started with ClimateGate in November 2009, and has increased in tempo ever since.
A fabulous day, and we will continue to grind these lefty carpet-baggers and hand-out experts into the dirt.
Congratulations everyone! Well done, and eternal thanks Anthony, your personal efforts are at the absolute forefront of the rational destruction of the great global warming caper.
Well done!
Quote from the Grauniad:-
Well yeah, Timmy. I’m guessing that’s why you got sacked.
The latest revisions to AR5 are to bring back the MWP thereby consigning Mann’s Hockey Stick to oblivion, and to reduce climate sensitivity still; further: http://notrickszone.com/2013/09/18/die-welt-journalist-on-the-ipcc-small-sensation-ipcc-backpedals-considerably/
What this indicates is a propaganda machine in full retreat as the scientists seek salvation in reality rather than hyperbole. This always happens at the end of such periods. Thus the collapse of the Phlogiston Theory has Priestley emigrating to America. At the end of Lysenkoism we had the development of the Samizdat movement.
So, to some degree, we also have Samizdat in out academic institutions. Thus 2nd year physics’ students in a top UK university were given a project to find out how a ‘reverse heat engine’ could be made to work, powered by ‘back radiation’ received on a car roof!
The purpose was of course to show that Climate Alchemy claims science which breaches the Law of Conservation of Energy, expressed in Maxwell’s Equations which presumably none of these dorks has heard of let alone used.
Look in Goody and Yung ‘Atmospheric Physics’ and the transfer of energy to and from matter to the EM world is summarised as qdot = – Div Fv.
qdot is the monochromatic heating rate of matter per unit volume. Fv is the monochromatic radiative flux density per unit volume. Integrate it and you get the difference between two S-B equations. Climate Alchemy and far too many mediocre scientists imagine the individual S-B equation denotes an energy flux instead of a radiation field. Virtually all scientists iI have met forget about the negative sign and physicists imagine a stream of photons bouncing off filled site.
Photons do not exist except at the instant of energy transfer OR measurement, the same thing. Extending Planck’s theory gives the coupled net radiation field as a carrier for photon holes from the acceptor to the emitter. Back Radiation does not exist except as a measure of the radiation field.
Not a man that I would pay $180 grand for his thoughts or ideas. A self-promoter, and a rather nutty academic. Who hands out our money to these people?
Oh well, I suppose that since he was only part time he has his other job to fall back on. (Unless he is a sword smith, of course.)
Anyone know what the other job is?
Good news for Australia.
Maybe not for the UK.
We “inherited” the second rate shill, Lewandowsky, after our Royal Society paid him a large bung to continue [his] “ground-breaking” research.
I kid you not!
Boy, wouldn’t that be great if similar stuff happened here in the good ole USA?
Good luck with that!
180 k for a part time job! These days that is normal in these elite parasitic circles, but it is still conspicuously expensive and part of a culture that looks to outsiders who work hard for modest income from which they pay taxes to be immoral. Furthermore this is given to a man who believes that the only responsible way to life is by conserving natural resources, especially fossil fuels. So what on earth is he doing with this huge quantity of money?
I suppose he could put it under his bed and not spend it, thus reducing consumption, or donate it to green charities charity, but in a way the peoples tax’s are there to be spent for the common good of the community. He was a advisor who directly advised the government on green policies and spending, he should have taken only a modest wage and refused this huge income that he did not need to support what should have been (considering his opinions) modest.