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?
Our shiny new quarter-right-ish government is fantastic, a real breath of fresh air. I’d recommend getting one, wherever you are.
oldseadog, I believe his qualification is in quaternary geology (in which case he should know better) and he teaches/researches somewhere.
Perhaps now he is not suckling on the public teat he will have to sell his house by the sea, which he no doubt bought to save some other poor soul from drowning.
And the labour party wondered where Abbot might make savings.
This is really quite funny. I especially like the bit about you can’t be a commissioner because the commission no longer exists – I will be smiling quietly to myself all evening.
Sanity?
In marsupial people walking upside down?
Must be some kind of a joke.
A beam of light in the realm of darkness, indeed.
Paul Westhaver says: “OM Gosh. I enjoyed that. I need a smoke. schadenfreude.”
I’m already there friend. This is truly a moment to exhale without a niggling thought that one day, morons like this would have been, if left unchecked, responsible for orchestrating a tax on your very exhalation. UN taxation on the basis of population was but a breath away.
Flannel-face is gone. History will be merciless.
Flannery, or as I like to call him Flummery, was an embarassment. Graduated in English Literature. Some how got a tax payer funded gig digging up Kangaroo bones, which resulted in him getting a PhD in paleontology, and then went on to be a museum bureaucrat.
He knows bugger all about the climate, and bugger all about basic science and the scientific method.
The climate climbdown is real, and it’s happenining, it’s happening now.
OMG, if Lewpaper is any guide, the UK is about to see an influx of alarmists, as they are fired from positions in Aus.
Sorry guys.
Obama and Cameron please note. Here’s your chance to get millions of extra votes.
AlecMM says:
September 19, 2013 at 1:10 am
Photons do not exist except at the instant of energy transfer OR measurement, the same thing.
As far as I remember, photons not only exists, they even do have a mass, as theorised by Einstein and observed as a change in path when passing the sun during a solar eclipse… See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon
Climate Alchemy claims science which breaches the Law of Conservation of Energy, expressed in Maxwell’s Equations.
There is no breaching of any Law by assuming backradiation. The net transfer of energy by radiation always is from a hotter to a colder object. If you may remember Dr. Spencer’s “Yes Virginia” experiment at:
http://www.drroyspencer.com/2010/07/yes-virginia-cooler-objects-can-make-warmer-objects-even-warmer-still/
I have made a spreadsheet which shows the effect of Dr. Spencer’s proposal, where you can experiment with any start temperature / heat input and watch what happens with the different radiation fluxes and temperatures over time:
http://www.ferdinand-engelbeen.be/klimaat/klim_img/slayers.xlsx
At no time there is a breach of the Law of Conservation of Energy, still the colder object heats up the warmer one, thanks to backradiation…
Hooray!
What I’d really like Abbott do is to fund some counter research that gets the ball rolling for the rest of the world. If he set up a unit where non alarmist researchers could actually get some work done without fear it could really change things globally. Ideally just parachute people like Ward into the top positions and tell them to go for it.
I dont mean Ward. But you get what I mean! Apologies I’m knackered – whens this baby going to turn up? I suspect my mental processes aren’t going to improve when it does.
“Now we need the EU to come to their senses…”
I could not agree more.
However, the Aussies voted their lot out. Most of the EU bureaucracy seems to be not removeable by democratic means. We do have one political party in the UK intent on leaving the EU – maybe they have a point.
Some great comments upthread. Roy Martin notes that Karoly and Steffen are also affected by the dissolution of the climate commission, I’m sure they have funding from other sources though.
Peter Miller identifies Flannery as a potential replacement for Pachauri, that made me spit out the champagne rather abruptly. Omnologos asks just what has Flannery been doing in his part-time sinecure, good question and the anwer is ‘getting it wrong’ on every issue.
Max Roberts has a great idea of keeping an official body staffed with intelligent people to counter the propaganda nonsense. That is a great idea, I’m sure that could be done on less money provided the carbon tax and all the green funding is ended.
Finally, Peter N correctly identifies the psychological makeup of Flannery in true orwellian style, he wants us to be all equal except that Flannery and his ilk will be more equal, too right Peter.
Today I am a proud Ozzie. Happy little Vegemite. Onya Tony.
Plenty of slots, non-sequestered, in CA’s carbon program, then going further east, there’s all those slots at the EPA and, of course, there’s Brussels.
This news is oddly cheering…. (TM)
I hope that no one minded. I ‘gave” Flim flam a notional $4,000 separation fee, in my last post, so he can either notionally buy a boat to commute from his flash seaside (Gorelike) Mansion or a land yatch, just in case his belief triggers a butterfly somewhere among the windmill perturbations!!
Generous, yes as we are in Australia !! sarc / of course….
Jannie, I too am a happy little Vegemite!
Tony Abbott is THE Action-Man. I thought that he was a bit weak and circumspect during the campaign, but he has done himself proud in the early days of dismembering the Labor disaster.
Happy, happy days!
I bet there is some UK NGO who want him, Grantham Institute perhaps, another bunch of mad dogs barking at nothing.
Here in Australia, The Greens have turned a wonderful shade of Blue. Tim Flannery, Will Steffan and David Karoly are now heading for the CentreLink employment branch to see if they can get a grant.
This news has me laughing so, so hard! ‘Bye Tim. Thanks for all the rhetoric.
His tears will be drowned by the rising sea levels in his sea front mansion.
Well done to the Aussies! Some consolation for the Ashes, perhaps??
Meanwhile, back here in England, according to yesterday’s “The Times”, Professor Nilay Shah of Imperial College, has likened those who cast doubts on climate change, to the South African politicians of the 1990’s who denied the link between HIV and AIDS. Quite a leap in logic! He includes your new PM, Tony Abbott, in this despicable group.
Mind you, he is the lead author for an organisation called the Grantham Institute for Climate Change. With a name like that, you can imagine they have a vested interest in keeping climate change as a scary scenario, lest their Institute should crumble.
Funny how the sea rise alarmists have a penchant for sea front property.
Australia heading to sanity, just as it was becoming the most climate nutty nation on earth. There is hope yet!