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?
Interesting what Wikipedia thinks about changes to Tim’s page. See the latest history of changes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tim_Flannery&action=history
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D Lamington,
Can you name a country that has a Ministry of Science? I can’t find one!
Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (Argentina)
Ministry of Science and Technology (Bangladesh)
Ministry of Science and Technology (Brazil)
Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China
Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation of Denmark
Ministry of Education, Science and Culture (Iceland)
Ministry of Science and Technology (India)
Ministry of Education and Science (Lithuania)
Ministry of Science, Research and Technology (Iran)
Ministry of Education and Science (Macedonia)
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Japan)
Ministry of Science and Technology (Pakistan)
Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation
Ministry of Science and Technology (South Korea)
Ministry of Science and Technology (Sri Lanka)
Ministry of Science and Technology (Thailand)
Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology (Turkey)
Like many articles, this was stimulated me to write a article on Scottish Sceptic: [Tim Flannery and] Thoughts on what end for Global Warming?
D Lamingtone well when Abbot has wrecked science as much as the climate lobby and Flannel has then I will kick him! but to start of with a prejudice ‘it’s all medieval ‘ on day one is well very poor form !
Duncan says:
September 19, 2013 at 2:25 am
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.
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For me maintaining the same underlying principles regardless of whether the party you support is in opposition or in power is very important. In terms of a ruling party this also helps in terms of maintaining intellectual consistency in the eyes of the public, keeping them on board for as long as possible. The most odious thing about climate change science is the corruption of a scientific field due to politicisation (and special interests).
The aspect that really needs to be addressed is the intellectual/ideological independence of bodies and processes through which state funded research grants are handed out. Maybe a commission would be useful to broach this area (to provide recommendations for reform).
“A Great Day For Freedom”
On the day the Left came down
We threw Tim Flannery to the ground
And with glasses high we raised a cry for freedom had arrived
On the day the warming scam came down
The Ship of Fools had finally run aground
Tax savings lit up the night like paper doves in flight
(with apologies to the inestimable Pink Floyd)
Gd’onya Tony – keep it comin mate !! 🙂
Watch for another ‘brain drain’ to the UK. Soon we will have them all in one place at least.
Flim Flannery gets flaxed.
Even the chief scientist said it was a good idea to get rid of the Science Ministry.
Some background on Tim Flannery from Wikipedia:
‘Commissioner of the Australian Climate Commission, a Federal Government body providing information on climate change to the Australian public.
Flannery was named Australian of the Year in 2007 and is currently a professor and holds the Panasonic Chair in Environmental Sustainability at Macquarie University. He is also the chairman of the Copenhagen Climate Council, an international climate change awareness group. His sometimes controversial views on shutting down conventional coal fired power stations for electricity generation in the medium term are frequently cited in the media.’
He may well miss his $180k but he won’t starve unfortunately (neither probably will Steffen or Karoly, his co-commissioners, sadly).
It won’t happen for at least another three years, until we can get The Puppet President and his socialist coterie (especially John Holdren) out of the White House—and get a conservative in there, and a conservative Congress. Then maybe we can get abolish the EPA (let the states handle real pollution) and allow the United States to enjoy a fossil-fuel-funded economic boom like none we have ever seen.
In the meantime, just hunker down and watch how much more damage that crowd can do to the country.
/Mr Lynn
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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.
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The curvature of space-time is caused by the presence of mass/energy. Space-time without mass/energy would be completely flat.
Streetcred says:
September 19, 2013 at 3:31 am
The political tide seems to be turning, and while Mr Lynn immediately above might be right (“It won’t happen for at least anothe three years”), there is this on the FoxNews website today:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/09/19/new-study-says-threat-global-warming-greatly-exaggerated/
There is so much wailing and gnashing of teeth about this by greens taking to social media at the moment. Its hilarious. Good to see the new government cutting loose some dead weight.
Climate change. Now this is the kind of change I can believe in.
Hurrah!
Not a blip in Canadian or US Media since this breath of fresh wind in Australia clearing out the smog of Climate Alarmism. It would hurt the Democrats(US)/NDP/Liberals/Greens (Canada) too much in the polls. People would actually start asking why they are doing the stupid things they do.
Flim-flam Flummery has been sacked?!
This is great news, although he will surely get a cushy academic or consulting gig to help him drown his sorrows.
Or he can retire to his seaside home to watch the scary ocean tides……
FerdiEgb says:
“His site was my first meeting with other skeptics, it was a sad day when he suddenly died.”
I agree wholeheartedly, Ferdinand. John Daly was a true skeptics’ skeptic. He is still greatly missed, and much credit to you for pointing out that many of us were made aware of his common sense science, which deconstructed the crazy, wild-eyed belief in runaway global warming.
Mr Daly will always be missed. But his knife in the heart of climate alarmism remains, despite Phil Jones’ inappropriate celebration of his unfortunate demise. By comparison, Jones is an odious, disrespectful creature, unfit to be called a scientist…
While here in Beautiful BC the madness continues. Schools and hospitals continue to flush millions of public money down the drain into the hands of the Pacific Carbon Trust and friends of the government.
Here is what the Auditor General of BC had to say about BC’s carbon tax:
This audit examined two projects which accounted for nearly 70 percent of the offsets purchased by government to achieve their claim of carbon neutrality: the Darkwoods Forest Carbon project in southeastern B.C. and the Encana Underbalanced Drilling project near Fort Nelson. However, this claim of carbon neutrality is not accurate, as neither project provided credible offsets.
John Doyle, MAcc, FCA
Auditor General
Victoria, British Columbia
March 2013
He is scheduled to give a Flim Flam in Calgary (and other places) in October. I wish i could attend!
http://lowcarbon-flannery-es2.eventbrite.ca/?rank=2
“…if some green NGO want to keep him in the ‘style ‘ his become used to , let the fools .”
Except that most NGOs are funded by taxpayers, directly or indirectly through tax “exemptions”…
“Grantham Institute of Climate Change…”
“Grantham” is Olde Englische for “Free Pork”…
I hope the US GOP is taking notes.
Just the fact that a government ministry is going to be dismantled is in itself is astonishing occurrence to us Americans. Imagine where the USA would be if we also eliminated unneeded departments and agencies.
This is great news and has been a good year for sceptics. If only someone would pay me for talking crap.