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?
Dissolving the Climate Commission and the jolly Tim is a wonderful thing. I’m so happy about that. However, when you all get over the endorphin rush. remember he’s doing it because it wasn’t his idea. He has a “better”plan to reduce CO2 emissions and save o.ooooooo3%, whatever, of the world while jacking up our price for power. So, @ur momisugly basby 76, be reminded that some of the most important work to be done is habitat protection and conservation and Tony is already working to put the clock back on that. Remember that protecting the Great Barrier Reef, the Wet Tropical Rainforest and clean air were all won after prolonged action by conservationists.
I an a an AGW skeptic AND a conservationist. I hate the fact that the majority of conservationsts have either swallowed the AGW meme or else are cynically on the bandwagon. BUT, I guess I don’t like being slagged as a “watermelon” any less than I do as a “denier”. A classic ad hominen.
“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.”
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It will make absolutely no difference. The Minister for Science was always a junior ministry outside Cabinet, and the few functions of the portfolio were always subsumed into a larger Department under a senior Minister who was in Cabinet. There has never been a stand alone Department of Science.
Abbott has got rid of a lot of titles for Ministers, because they had become ridiculously long. The science functions will be either in the Education or Industry portfolio (probably the former), and both are senior Cabinet positions.
D. Lamingtone joins Labor and the Greens in making much of the Abbott government’s decision not to name a separate Minister for Science but also joins them in not mentioning the fact that the last Chief Scientist, Penny Sackett, quit in 2011, midway through her five year term, and revealed that she had never once been asked to brief then Prime Minister Gillard. Unlike Flannery, Sackett obviously felt her position had been shown to be unnecessary!
Hopefully Australia’s Chief Scientist, Ian Chubb, who has been prominent among the climate change barrackers will also get his marching orders. Chubb was supportive of almost every Labor policy but when the Gillard government slashed university funding in the last Budget he was suddenly impossible to find and when the ABC’s Fran Kelly finally did interview him on Radio National, those cuts weren’t even canvassed.
[” climate change barrackers” ? Mod]
Mod,
American: Who do you root for?
Australian: Who do you barrack for?
barrack – verb
1. to shout boisterously for or against a player or team; root or jeer.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/barrack
J. Philip Peterson says:
September 19, 2013 at 11:42 am
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
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Earlier today, I had made a comment regarding media sites that have stopped allowing comments on climate change related articles. France 24, it seems, is doing the same, also. There is a negative article about Tony Abbott getting elected, which allows comments, but not for the one on Flannery. This has to be a new tactic. They will shut down all commentary every time they want to make some new point regarding climate change proclamations.
David Suzuki is also getting grief but not from the (unreformed ABC), who are giving him a whole hour by himself to say why Flannery is a genius etc http://www.quadrant.org.au/blogs/doomed-planet/2013/09/solo-suzuki-could-use-a-sidecar and http://www.quadrant.org.au/blogs/doomed-planet/2013/09/false-notes-and-the-suzuki-method
Our ABC is go to get a sharp lesson real soon, you bet!
@Sid on the skids, ??? Why oh why did you have to spoil this night of joy?? “Dr.” S. is way worse than this guy ( and frankly if you Google Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s there are a few indicators and I am not joking I have 2 family members diagnosed.). But Canadians still have not got their heads out of CBC’s rear, sadly enough.
But good on the Oz government right to the point . You have to cull the herd before the disease gets deeper and put them out to pasture rather then perpetuate the problem..
The really sad thing is that he did a lot of good scientific work in the fields of mammalogy and palaeontology. If he hadn’t been sucked into the AGW scam, he’d have been remembered in the biological sciences field (the wider public would never have heard of him) as a top notch scientist. Now he’ll be remembered by the wider public as the buffoon in Josh’s cartoon. Still, he brought it on himself.
Streetcred@3:41 a.m.:
And so say all of us!
Wonderful, wonderful times. I have been looking for this since ClimateGate, almost 4 years ago!
Suffer the tears of desperation! Onwards!
CSIRO will be the next clean out
jimmi_the_dalek says:
September 19, 2013 at 2:20 pm
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.
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And just what precisely would you expect a Minister for Science to do? S/he would be a politician so presumably you think science to be politicised. That way Lysenkoism (and, of course, CAGW) lies.
Lucky people down under! Pea GREEN with envy. Global warming was always a COMMIE stunt. 180 grand? There you have it. Scare the hell out of people and make them hand over their money. Commies – no talent envious thieves.
WUWT says, “The question now is, which NGO will pick up this foo’?”
Please God let it be Greenpeace, in Murmansk Russia, with the “Arctic Dawn.”
http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/09/19/carry-on-greenpeace-balaclava-and-assault-weapon-toting-fsb-drop-in-from-chopper/
Flannery said that in his travels around Australia acting as head of the Climate Commission, he only encountered 6 to 8% of people as sceptics. In typical CAGW scam speak, he did not say, they made it known they would not reply to sceptical questions, so there was no point in attending his talks.
As usual he tells half the story or less when he can get away with it.
Joanne Nova offers safe haven….
http://joannenova.com.au/2013/09/an-open-invitation-to-tim-flannery-to-explain-climate-science-to-us-here/#more-30714
orkneygal says:
September 21, 2013 at 6:06 am
“Joanne Nova offers safe haven….”
Wow! Jo Nova shows what character means to the CAGW crowd. I would be surprised if they are open to this kind of debate. They haven’t been so far.
I will open a bottle of Penfolds RWT Barossa Valley Shiraz 2009 on this great news.
Impressive interview by Andrew Bolt of newly elected MP Dr Dennis Jensen, PhD in materials engineering on ceramics. Described as the most highly qualified scientist in the Australian Parliament, he discusses the sacking of Chief Climate Commissioner Tim Flannery.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt#ooid=V5aWx0ZTr1S0aiULO6myTJd1CA7BrEZj
What a breath of fresh air……….
(5:55 video link in page middle)
Bye, Flim, Bye;
Fly, Flan, Fly!
This clown will show up somewhere for a while but this gig is over .Polish up those CV’s climate “experts” your career path is crashing .
Ha ha ha, about time, Abbott is on to it, getting rid of those alarmist con artists milking the public with their BS.
Certainly explains why Obama is tripling down on EPA regs to get the strangle hold permanent before the US wakes up..
As opposition leader, Tony Abbott said something to the effect of ” this man does not have to be paid to talk”. He was correct, for here he comes again.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-24/tim-flannery-to-relaunch-climate-commission/4976608
Maybe he can get job assisting in artificial insemination of Pandas. would look great in that suit!