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?
The Obama administration ignores laws it doesn’t like. Last year, funding was cut for some programs and they simply moved money around and spent it anyway. This is unconstitutional, of course, but doesn’t matter.
“Paul Coppin says:
September 19, 2013 at 7:33 am
“Grantham Institute of Climate Change…”
“Grantham” is Olde Englische for “Free Pork”…”
If only more knew of “Olde Englische”. There are traits, diminishing, in the Scottish highlands and isles. Damn the Romans, French and politicians!
Sounds to me like some Johnny-come-lately taking credit where no credit is due. The U.S. cleanup of PM was one of the first things the (then new) EPA started on in early ’70’s. By 1990 it was largely complete.
Conclusions from all epidemiological studies like the China study, are tenuous. There may be correlations, but it is extremely difficult to show causation with no control over the variables. And we all know that correlation does not demonstrate causation.
Sorry for the above. Wrong thread.
My virtual satellite models projected a 97% chance of this happening.
Well done Australia. Common sense is making a return and all you rational voters came together to vote the greenie-meanies out on their arses. Hopefully your tax dollars will now be better directed. I’m hoping the common sense will soon return to Britain. But regretfully, I feel this is quite a way off.
Tim “Flim-Flam” Flannery looking for a job? My guess is the WWF will pick him up and send him off to wherever the next UN meeting is as a delegate.
Now, how about giving Murry Salby another chance. He is obviously a real scientist.
Max Roberts says:
September 19, 2013 at 12:19 am
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.
No. Absolutely not! The only way to put a stake through the heart of a government agency is to defund it completely and follow that up by passing a law that removes all authority from that agency. That way, when the opposition again surfaces (and when the opposition is liberal, it always will surface since these people love government jobs) they will have to win over both the legislature and the executive to get their pet agency re-authorized, and then funded.
If you leave the agency in place, with all of it’s legal authorization, all that it takes to completely reverse all the good done by defunding it is a few closet bureaucrats who insert funding into an obscure bill, along with a compliant legislator or two, and an executive who is either clueless, modestly complicit, or completely complicit, and the agency will ride herd over us once again.
That is how liberals always win, by gaining ground each time they’re in power, and going into hiding when they’re out of power, knowing that conservatives will be reluctant to shut the entire operation down. For example, imagine the uproar if the GOP in the U.S. de-authorized the Department of Education. They should, but they never will. And, over time, liberals will always set the tone, even though they will suffer inevitable setbacks from time to time.
So, in short, you’re wrong. Your “sensible” suggestion plays right into their hands. I hope, on rethinking it, you come to realize that. You are right in saying that they need an organization. So, don’t leave one in place for them to commandeer. Destroy it, and all vestiges of it, and then document thoroughly the savings and the benefits, and publicize them broadly in the hopes that such an organization will never be created again by thinking people.
I do hope Australia can export this common sense and accountability to currently depressed regions like the the U.S. and EU.
Yes. Yes. Yes. Best news I’ve heard all week. Don’t like to gloat, but it couldn’t happen to a more deserving person.
A good start.
It has been a joy and a delight watching the luvvies at the ABC and the Fairfax press going incandescent with rage about this. They are furious that a conservative politician has actually implemented the promises that he was elected on. It’s something new for them. The Labor government had no such inhibitions.
Of course, if he had broken his promises, they would have been livid about that too.
Gee Timmy you reckon only “10% of my body is made up of bacteria and fungi” . I strongly suggest you do a recount!!
Saw this on the Drudge Report:
New Australian PM abolishes climate watchdog…(link):
http://www.france24.com/en/20130919-new-australian-pm-abolishes-climate-watchdog
Kind of a one sided article though…
Listening to Flannery’s video (see NikFromNYC says: September 18, 2013 at 11:53 pm), I got the impression (a) Mr. Flannery is a one-world, socialist, communist, screw-the-individual,-it’s-the-state-that-matters do-gooder, and (b) he’ll ride any
whorehorse that might carry him to the finish line. He chose thewhorename CAGW. CAGW turned out to be a rabbit out of the gate, but it looks like she may not finish the race. Too bad. Well Tim, you can console yourself that at least the ride was exciting at the start. Now it’s time to pay the bill. Put the money on the counter.FerdiEgb says: September 19, 2013 at 5:23 am
… But there is an extra bent in the path when the photon’s pass near large masses:
Gravitational lensing near galaxies isn’t extra; it’s the same curvature as near the sun, just much broader and weaker. It’s a curvature of space through time, and the photon spends a lot of time traveling past a galaxy. I haven’t checked, but I’d imagine the observed angular bend past the sun is greater than what we observe past galaxies.
beng says: September 19, 2013 at 6:19 am
… The curvature of space-time is caused by the presence of mass/energy. Space-time without mass/energy would be completely flat.
Space-time without mass/energy would not exist.
One correspondent had champagne.
I’ve had a bottle of Mateus tonight on this. Not as good (but not bad!)
Auto (In Southern Europe)
Looked to see if the Huff Post had any article on Australia in their Green section,- NOT!
But found this article posted today:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gene-karpinski/a-new-test-for-climate-change-deniers_b_3943899.html?utm_hp_ref=green
Reading articles like this makes my hair stand on end. (and I have curly hair)
NO!!! Don’t open all those bottles of champagne! Think of all the CO2 safely sequestered within each bottle. You wouldn’t want to let it all out into the poor, helpless atmosphere, would you?
I know: most of you won’t listen to me. But if it saves just one bottle…
I have no objection to stopping the Climate Commission, but failing to appoint a Minister for Science is just plain stupid, and will damage all research. A clear case of throwing out the baby with the bath water.
When it comes to water, Professor Flannery certainly goes with the flow! (From the Oz Herald Sun). with an accompanying video slice)
‘Professional alarmist Tim Flannery in 1996 warned that global warming would drown beachfront houses eight storeys high.
”Anyone with a coastal view from their bedroom window, or their kitchen window, or where-ever, is likely to lose their house as a result of that change, so anywhere, any coastal cities, coastal areas, are in grave danger”.
But the very next year he bought a house just four or five metres from the edge of the tidal waters around the Hawkesbury estuary [ East Coast of Australia].
According to property searches, in 1997 Professor Flannery bought one house on the Hawkesbury with his wife, Alexandra Leigh Szalay, for $274,000.
Five years later—even as climate scientists, including Professor Flannery, claimed evidence of global warming and rising sea levels was even more solid—the couple bought the property next door, for $505,000.
Is the media turning?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2425775/Climate-scientists-told-cover-fact-Earths-temperature-risen-15-years.html#comments
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2420871/MAIL-ON-SUNDAY-COMMENT-These-climate-fanatics-cloud-debate.html?ico=home^editors_choice
I know its the same paper but what the hell
It is part of a pattern by the new Government to depoliticise the term ‘Science’ and starve the media of oxygen, certainly they are not ignorant of or anti science. They will quietly go about their business and removing targets is part of the process.
Brits – how is the BBC handling this ? I can guess, but want to get my facts straight before I post some vitriol on other widely read sites that I contribute to.