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?
“Julian in Wales says:
September 19, 2013 at 1:46 am”
That’s right, 3 days per week apparently. He was also a few years ago espousing the benefits of geothermal energy, while at the same time investing in a geothermal energy company. I understand now he sold his investments as, I imagine, would be seen to be a conflict of interest. Must have taken advice from the likes Al Gore and “Oxy” and Ross Garnout (An economist and the architect of the “price on carbon”) and the Ok Tedi copper an gold mines in PNG.
the first head on a post!
finally it gets real.
bravo, bravo!
don’t stop now- line em all up against the wall.
Ferdinand Engelbeen says: September 19, 2013 at 2:22 am
… 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…
As far as I remember, the bent path is due to the curvature of space, occurring regardless of any mass.
My wife and I have just returned from an evening out celebrating the start of the Enlightenment .. Flannery is the first and there are many to follow … quite mellow now after a bottle of the finest of Penfold’s Grange.
The socialist appointed Commonwealth public servants who have supped at the pig trough for the past 6 years are busy peeing in their pants awaiting their pink slips. You know what ? They are of no concern the the majority of Australians as they are essentially the welfare dependents who voted for the Labor losers.
I hope that our victory and swift action against alarmism will be inspirational to our conservative and otherwise logical brethren in the USA to similarly take action. Colorado, from what I read, has already exercised some democracy made it known that they won’t be taken for mugs.
Hallelujah !!
Thank you for putting this news on your blog, this commission was instituted as a propaganda vehicle to sell the carbon tax to the tax payers. It served no worth while purpose, the propaganda was taken on board by our state governments who were also labour at the time. It cost us billions in boondoggles. Flannery was also head of a company for power generation from hot rocks that was given 90 million dollars of tax payer money that failed spectaculary. He has proved to be an absolute nutter in his ramblings. I tell all this to show the absolute absurdity of the things our previous government did.
Bloody EXCELLENT NEWS!!!!
Three of the mongrels culled
and now?
ABC Science show.(jha ha what science??)
R Williams needs retiring permanently no guest spots no nothing finito!
“As a result we have developed a reputation as a reliable, apolitical source of facts on all aspects on climate change,” Professor Flannery said.
What a complete load of crap from the $180,000/yr part timer.
@ferdinand meeus Engelbeen.
Radiation pressure exists, it has momentum so can be bent by gravity, but that pressure is from the gradient of the radiative flux density which is continuously altering due to the thermal noise so the ‘photons’ are continually rearranging: think of it as delocalisation so the photons are transient during conversion of form from EM to mechanical and vice versa.
As for ‘back radiation’, it is the radiation field and has to form a net radiation field before it can transfer energy to matter. To claim as in Climate Alchemy that it is an energy flux triples the real flux. About half of the extra is then removed by assuming Kirchhoff’s Law of Radiation applies at ToA when most of the energy is emitted from inside the atmosphere. Then the models use double the real low level cloud optical depth in hind casting.
The net effect is to heat up sunlit parts of the ocean increasing evaporation whilst exaggerating cloud cooling. Hence the positive feedback from high evaporation is an artefact of the modelling. The reality is that surface average temperature and TPW are decreasing and there is no ‘hot spot’.
You then have to correct all the other mistakes, e.g. Tyndall’s experiment has been misinterpreted so there is no thermalisation of the gas phase by absorbed IR from a higher temperature source – the energy pseudo-diffuses to heterogeneities: clouds and space. Sagan’s aerosol optical physics is wrong – the second optical process is a large droplet phenomenon so the cooling from pollution is rally heating due to inhibition of droplet coarsening kinetics. Virtually all the basic physics of heat generation and transfer is wrong which is why the models perform so badly.
Flannery is on record in the Melbourne Age claiming that Global Temperatures had increased by 25%. How did he arrive at that figure… well he claimed that average temp has increased from 15C to 20C so that’s 5C/15C which (he claimed) is 25%. An economist pointed out it was more like 30%…. Apart from the unsupported numbers and the arithmetic… can anybody see where Prof. Flannery got this completely wrong? (Tip… If this were an exam question Tim would have received and Absolute Zero score)
PS in 1981_Hansen_etal.pdf the claim of 33 K ghe forgets that taking out ghgs from the atmosphere increases SW at the surface by 43%. The real ghe = ~11K; ‘positive feedback’ via lapse rate change cannot exist except at very low water vapour levels. the cause is the self-absorption of IR emission > 100 ppm [H2O].
@NikfromNYC that video sounds like he had read Frank Herbert (“Hellstrom’s Hive” ) too many times.
Flannery: Kinko the Climate Change Clown. Sacked. Now a dole bludger.
I never thought I would cheer someone becoming a dole bludger but…
HOORAY!
Hey Tim, on the way out, take the bloody Tugun desal plant with you, it is a blot on the Gold Coast landscape, and leave the $90million for the hot rocks at the door.
Josh’s cartoon has me baffled.
It makes him sound like a skeptic IMO. ??????
“What has CO2 got to do with climate?”
My profound thanks to the people of Australia. Your country leads the world in debunking the CO2 / global warming/ AGW / climate change myth. Keep up the good work!
Dodgy Geezer says:
September 19, 2013 at 2:37 am
> This news is oddly cheering…. (TM)
John Daly might toast to that! 🙂
The article quotes Flannery:
That would be a good start. Bob Carter might be available.
Maybe he will start a PR company with Hansen?
Harpo:
He went wrong because, first and foremost, temperatures have not risen from 15C to 20C. Second, the most obvious fact is that little matter of K – to get a percentage you really need to be working in Kelvins, so his erroneous claim actually is that temps have risen from 288K to 293K, which is nowhere near any 5%.
However, I’ll give them this: since water in gaseous phase is the main “greenhouse” gas, all that really matters is temperature above 273.15K, so if their way WAY out there claim of 5 degrees was accurate it could be significant. But it’s not, so that’s a moot point.
Dodgy Geezer beat me to the quote that belongs here:
** Correction: last thing in first paragraph should be 25%
Nik from NYC
Space Case video
The man is taking too many drugs. Marxist
Flannery is a fool.. agreed, but Tony Abbott is far more dangerous. I would rather live with a climate idiot, than a medieval nut bag any day.
I mean after 80 years he has gotten rid of the science ministry! On day one … and here you all are cheering him on.. On a science web site?
“History will be merciless” on Tony Abbott
@D Lamingtone – What “science” is there in government? The US has no “science” minister, but what it does have (over the last 100 years) is a majority of the Nobel Science Prizes.
Mike McMillan says:
September 19, 2013 at 3:26 am
As far as I remember, the bent path is due to the curvature of space, occurring regardless of any mass.
But there is an extra bent in the path when the photon’s pass near large masses:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_lensing
Good news. The man has caused so much damage. Still, I would expect the screeching of the Australian climate gallahs to become ever more shrill as a result. Rational Australians should be on guard..
Ric Werme says:
September 19, 2013 at 5:03 am
John Daly might toast to that!
It is a pitty he doesn’t live anymore to see this first step in throwing out the more extremes of the AGW side… He certainly would have celebrated this day.
His site was my first meeting with other skeptics, it was a sad day when he suddenly died.