Story submitted by Eric Worrall
Tim Flannery, one time head of the government Climate Commission in Australia, until it was disbanded by the current government, has released a video begging for donations to “keep science in the news”. A year after raising a million dollars, he now needs more money.
Flannery has an impressive track record of being wrong. He repeatedly predicted Australia was now in permanent drought, shortly before Australia experienced so much rain, alarmists blamed the Aussie downpour for a drop in sea level.
Flannery’s predictions of permanent drought probably helped cause the squandering of billions of dollars on desalination plants.
The following is a list of some of Flannery’s more entertaining mistakes.
https://anhonestclimatedebate.wordpress.com/tag/tim-flannery-failed-predictions/
If Flannery is short of cash, perhaps he should try getting a job, rather than holding his hat out for other people’s cash, while taking a walk along a photogenic beach. He should certainly stop pretending he has any skill at predicting the future.
Give me your money. Fallen on hard times since he was chopped off the left money tree!
Maybe we should just send him some cake.
He should certainly stop pretending he has any integrity.
There needs to be about 10,000 more former academics and bureaucrats who are now beggars.
pat says:
July 18, 2014 at 4:15 pm
***something else for Flannery to stress over.
as expected, South Korea is having second thoughts about an ETS after Australia abandons the carbon tax/ETS:
____
Good stuff, Pat. While the number of climate scientists sometimes seems to approach infinity, there are only about 200 nations. With several of them rejecting the warming hysteria, the consensus among nations looks to be going below 97%.
Pat, write the S Korea news as a “submit story” – very interesting.
What to expect from someone named Flim Flammery.
Don’t forget the investment in Flim flam’s geothermal crock.
Another $95MIL ! down the drain.
Only taxpayer money though….
keep the science in the headlines -says the arts graduate grifter.
Tim Flim Flammery is a MONGREL BLUDGER in the true sense of the Ausie vocabulary.
The oft repeated claim of “97% of scientists agree on man made global warming” deserves closer inspection. Google the claim and be amazed at the full story. Hint, the total number were in fact 77. Pete.
e
This fraudster is the same con man who was “elected” Australian of the year.
An award that is “bestowed” upon them by a goverment funded left committe.
The public does not get to vote.
The public makes nominations and the committee selects. No voting.
This same fraudster who after accepting the award from prime minister John Howard.
Proceeded to shit can Mr Howard about his funding or lack of to fight global warming.
This same fraudsters “hot rocks” company has pocketed millions from taxpayers in trying to produce electricity from a geo thermal site in South Australia.
To date without any return to investors or taxpayers and the companys share price all but bust.
This same fraudster, who if stood on the “gallows” of public opinion in Australia.
Would cause riots over who would get to flip the trap door.
Make no mistake, Flannery is a fraudster right up there with Gore and co.
And should be treated with the same contempt and mistrust.
Both having been shown to be blatant liars in the persuit of personal profit.
Flannery was on the Board of Siemens (manufacturer of the Desal plants that were built all over Australia – that are now mothballed) when he was predicting endless droughts!!!
“Climate Commissioner Tim Flannery expands on his wild new theory of the “growth of a super-organism” – a world in which we have “global community with a common set of beliefs” so that we are “a regulating intelligence for the planet”, leading “to a stronger Gaia”.
This, he explains, will have us living in “a super-organism”, living more interdependent lives with less “individual competence” – like ants, he says.
At times Flannery’s vision sounds dangerously like a totalitarian, even fascist one, in which the individual is subordinated to the ideology, the collective, the fatherland. In which a human is no more than an ant.
This is a man the Gillard Government has paid $170,000 to teach us to follow its global warming faith.”
http://youtu.be/SeNDSeknn_c
I want to send him a bill for about a $2m. That’s what his ill considered policies pronouncements cost me in the downturn in property prices of the waterfront rental properties that I had purchased decades ago to fund my retirement. As a result of his idiocy and the stupidity of the NSW and Federal government policies regarding rising sea levels the prices of those properties went sour just after I reached 65 and wanted to sell them to invest in higher returning investments to provide an income in my (what has had to become) semi-retirement.
We deny climate? No, we deny massive water vapor amplification of the old school textbook proper greenhouse effect. But that’s twenty syllables instead of just two. How about we just deny FRAUD, a single syllable?
A single picture will speak our thousand words, thanks to Willis:
http://s6.postimg.org/jb6qe15rl/Marcott_2013_Eye_Candy.jpg
Lots more of Flannery’s Timfoolery here:http://pindanpost.com/2014/07/12/timmys-failed-scientific-predictions-timfoolery/
A favorite target of mine to mock …
Several years ago I had a casual conversation with somebody who went to school with Flim Flannery. Apparently Flim is innumerate. Not a good choice of a spokesman, salesman actually, for a highly scientific matter. I also note that all the “climate scientist” seem to have drifted into this “science” from areas such as geography.
“This is a man the Gillard Government has paid $170,000″(a year)
For three days “work” for want of a better word, a week.
And lets not get into the costs to the taxpayersof Gillards climate commission.
Which was rhe first thing the coalition shut down.
He was specifically hired by Gillard who need a high profile figure to sell her CO/2 tax.
A former “Australian of the year” and global warmist fitted Gillards criteria perfectly.
The rightful criticisms that this global warming fraudster attracts are never ending.
ROM says:
July 18, 2014 at 4:30 pm
Once again the leech like Flim Flam Flannery proves that he is utterly incapable of earning his own living and like a leech, is totally dependent on the continuing flow of OPM. [ Other People’s Money ]
=========================================================================
Hi ROM,
can you recall what you posted on Nova’s Site?
Here it is :
ROM
July 18, 2014 at 11:19 am · Reply
We are on the pension, something we never wanted to be on as it is a burden for others who have to support us through their taxes,………………………
===========================================================================
You condemn Flannery for asking for donations but are quite happy for the taxpayer to fund your lifestyle.
Hypocrite.
Eric Worrall says:
“Pat, write the S Korea news as a “submit story” – very interesting” re the south korea ETS, but i’m no good at that, Eric. however, here is an update:
18 July: Korea Times: Park Si-soo: Gov’t may delay carbon trading plan
The government is expected to delay implementing a controversial carbon emissions trading program after the new finance minister called the plan “flawed.”
Major manufacturing companies have protested against the program and demanded the government delay it.
“I think the existing plan is likely to be modified to delay its implementation or to reduce financial burden on companies,” Park Ryun-min, an environment ministry official familiar with the case, told The Korea Times on Friday.
“We will soon start talking with two other ministries involved in the case ㅡ the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and the Ministry of Strategy and Finance ㅡ to tackle the issue.”…
During his visit to a conventional market on Thursday morning, Choi said, “If it’s found to have problems during preparation, we should revise related regulations to address them,” he said.
***Many problems had been found, although the program was set to take effect from January, he said.
“We will review the problems and then decide whether to implement it as scheduled,” he said…
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2014/07/123_161284.html
Hi Eric,
It may come as a bit of a shock, but most of Queensland, the State where you live, is drought declared.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-07/qld-drought–most-widespread-ever-recorded/5306044
Cheers.
Yes Paul Evans of 6.34 pm, if Flannery’s clip wasn’t the height of impertinence and waste it would qualify as a contender for the World’s Funniest Videos.
So do not ask the hundreds of thousands of Australian residents that still pay rates for defunct desalination plants.
On the 16 Jun 2007 Flannery proclaimed:
“Desalination plants can provide insurance against drought. In Adelaide, Sydney and Brisbane, water supplies are so low they need desalinated water urgently, possibly in as little as 18 months. Of course, these plants should be supplied by zero-carbon power sources.”
Did Flannery provide more detailed advice to the Labor State Governments that were running the states at the time on how to deal with his predicted perennial droughts? Don’t know – but we do know how the governments re-acted.
In 2010 a desalination plant was constructed at Kurnell south of Sydney at a cost of $2 billion. In Jun 2012 when the Warragamba dam was full again the plant was shut down and has been in moth balls, or the more promotable “water security” mode, ever since.
However to keep it in this mode costs half a million a day and even though the present state government was politically astute enough to sell off the white elephant to private enterprise, it is the residents who are liable for paying for its upkeep for the next 50 years.
But wait there is more. If you ever drive from Sydney to Canberra, as you approach the capital you will pass the hideous Bungendore wind farm that was built ostensibly to power the Kurnell desalination plant. If the plant is in moth balls where does the power goes to from the Bungendore windmills (when they are working)?
http://images.smh.com.au/2012/11/20/3810636/dan-20121120192610289226-620×349.jpg
Surely Canberra has all the power it needs from the Snowy Mountains Hydro Authority?
Of course we also have the same story in Queensland with the Tugun plant on the Gold Coast. This was completed in 2009 after numerous technical delays for a cost of $1.2 billion and put into standby mode in December 2010. But that too continues to drain a million dollars a week for feed and board.
Same same for the South Australian and Victorian plants. Love this description from Wiki on the Victorian Wonthaggi plant:
“On completion the plant was immediately placed into standby mode as the reservoirs in Melbourne were over 80% full. However a $1.8 million per day fee is payable to the construction consortium. This minimum fee is payable for a total of 27 years after completion. Even if no water is required the total payment is between $18 and $19 billion. Nonetheless, with the ever present climate change effects witnessed along recent years, some argue the project, as a preventive measure, was a complete success”!!!!!
No doubt that is a Flannery benchmark.
way down in google results:
18 July: Heartland Blog: Jim Lakely: Heartland Institute Experts React to Australia’s Carbon Tax Repeal
“The decision by Australia to repeal its carbon tax is further evidence that the global warming movement is now in global retreat. Australian voters realized the tax, which cost the average household more than $500 a year, had zero impact on the climate while it destroyed jobs and punished the poor and people on fixed incomes. Elected officials took longer to realize their mistake, but the right decision was finally made.
“The odds of a new international treaty with binding provisions being adopted at the next United Nations meeting in Paris in 2015, already poor, have dropped even further. People all over the world are seeing through the hype and exaggeration of politicians and environmental activists. They understand that there simply is no climate crisis, and they no longer are willing to passively accept the taxes, regulations, and subsidies passed at the height of global warming alarmism…
Australia has shown the way. Are they paying attention?”
Joseph Bast, President
“Money wasted imposing expensive energy restrictions could be better spent on education, housing, health care, nutrition, real environmental challenges, or simply allowing people to keep more of their earnings. Australia has seen the light and I expect more nations will soon follow suit.”
James M. Taylor
Senior Fellow for Environmental Policy
http://blog.heartland.org/2014/07/heartland-institute-experts-react-to-australias-carbon-tax-repeal/
thank you Heartland, for all your hard work over the years. your efforts are much appeciated.
Flannery not only has a house a water level on the tidal Hawkesbury River, but also bought the house next door.
The desalination plant at Tugun has never pumped a drop of water. In fact the salt rusted the outlet pipes. Labor made a huge song and dance about global warming and the high priest Flannery. So they built a pipeline from Wivenhoe Dam to Toowoomba to guarantee water supply but apparently the pipe diameter is too small, so the friction head is too large to let water actually flow..
Then of course there is the Wivenhoe Dam releases that flooded Brisbane and Ipswich. Because of the Global Warming scaremongering, they refused to follow the manual properly and only released water when the dam was in imminent danger of failing. At least that is what is alleged in a mammoth civil action being held in the next state because Labor changed the rules that they could not be held responsible.
Then Flannery travelled Australia as part of the Climate Change Committee speaking to people. Only trouble was, he refused to take sceptic questions or even a simple correction question. The only people allowed to speak were warmists. So Flannery then said over 90% of people supported his failed predictions.
Unbelievable…he wants money to “DISCREDIT” ‘deniers’. Can he possibly recognise the irony?