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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.
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HUCKSTER
Shudder…Mention of Flannery brings back memories of the loony Kevin Rudd / Julia Gillard era.
I await the day Mikey Mann has to join Flannery begging for money because the climate scam has played out.
SM Says
On getting a pension- ‘hypocrite’.
There is no hypocrisy in growing old.
There is no hypocrisy in being poor.
There is no hypocrisy in qualifying for a pension.
Tim Flannery is not yet 60 and does not qualify for a pension. Whether he will do as a result of his holdings, apart from the family home, is not something of which I am aware.
On drought in Queensland-
And only 3 years after most of Queensland was flooded. A quick turnaround on global warming causing floods. Or merely what has happened for eons.
This is well worth a read-
http://australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/natural-disasters
From an Aussie old age pensioner.
It seems we do live in interesting times.
I am sure readers will be enlightened by the extraordinary vision for the future!!
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/flannery_explains_his_vision_for_us_ants
SM says
Drought extent- according to ABC greatest on record 80%.
‘1864−66 (and 1868). The little data available indicates that this drought period was rather severe in Victoria, South Australia, New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia.
1877 All States affected by severe drought, with disastrous losses in Queensland. In Western Australia many native trees died, swamps dried up and crops failed.’
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drought_in_Australia
However due to lack of records and low population count at that time, we cannot be certain that those droughts were more or less severe in coverage. It is simply not recorded.
Jack, believe or not, my ex and I were interested in this house to buy, decades ago. I was indeed on the banks of the Hawkesbury river. One problem at the time, maybe different now, only access was by boat! $40,000. There was a way in via bush roads, gravel only and many klms from the highway. It was surrounded by thick bush that was suss to bush fires. It wouldn’t be a family home we thought, and no mansion either. Possibly a good fishing lodge if you had a boat to start with. But not swimming! Noah’s arks frequent the river, like Bull sharks. They can live in salt and fresh water. Good place to hide in against the media attention. As it is tidal, the water would drop away one day? LOL
Flannery once attended a dig organized by the UNE. Before my time there. One of his papers regarding elephants dieing from water shortages was an example of what happened to the mega fauna once. The elephants didn’t die from lack of water but they wouldn’t travel from waterhole to waterhole, and ate themselves out and starved. Then he changed his mind some years later that Aborigines had a hand in it. This theory was trashed last year, humans in Australia had not killed off the mega-fauna. The ones that died were browsers, not grazers. And only one skeleton was found with a tiny spear head in it. Not sufficient to kill any large creature. It was when the glacial period ended and no doubt surface water started to evaporate. But most skeletal evidence was found around dried out water holes.
A bit of gossip, no better not, he was only young then anyway.
If he is so committed to the Cause, he can sell his waterfront home in Sydney … it’s going to be underwater soon anyway according to his tripe on rising sea levels.
Flim Flannery has a long record of imbecilic thinking. When the poor Lindy Chamerlain was accused of murdering her baby Azaria at Ayers Rock/Uluru when in fact a dingo took the infant from the family tent, the Flannery concluded she must have done it because otherwise it would be really bad for dingoes. Think about it. Say it with a rising inflection to get the full imbecility of it. And this guy is a professor FFS! No need for the Peter Principle any more, Flannery is the new bench mark for promotion to a level beyond ones competence, in his case way, way, way beyond such that competence is a tiny speck on the horizon.
Hi SM,
It might come as a shock to you, but after Flannery said, “We’re seeing it now, in the evidence before our eyes in our rivers and creeks, and of course the computer models in the global models have been predicting just this now for some years. I think all evidence says that this is our new climate and we have to get by with less water than we’ve ever had before,” QLD, NSW and Victoria were subject to “extreme weather” flooding, the result of carbon dioxide lifting its forcing foot off the warming accelerator and slamming it onto the hydrological accelerator, apparently. Magical stuff, all predicted by your infallible prophets.
“Less water than we’ve ever had before”
http://www.schnews.org.uk/images/568-aussie-large.jpg
Why didn’t ask ‘Al ‘end of days and failed US Presidential candidate’ for some of his billion dollar coin when he was here a few weeks back ?
He probably did but the religious zealots and the great ‘predictor’ the Mammalogist know that the [pardon the pun] ‘tide’ of public opinion has turned on this issue.
That ‘will’ happen when you run around making endless predictions, that end up being seen as fact as blatantly false [hell this clown even bought a beach front home at the same time he’s alarming Australian’s sea levels are rapidly rising].
I wonder if the great predictor still has the Prius ? Next he’ll be requesting cars that are ‘green’.
No Timmy……taxpayer moula for you are no more. More front than MYERs this bloke. He squeezed millions out of the Australian taxpayer and for what ? What were his actual ‘outcomes’ that are credible and peer reviewable ?
And again we hear the word “denier” from this clown in describing anyone that holds a contrary view on man made climate change. The sheer gall of Flannery. Without government money he seems so lost, so desperate.
Yes, he definately should have squeezed big Al when he had the chance. I mean what’s a few million dollars to Al ? The clown’s a billionaire.
Khwarizmi says:
July 18, 2014 at 10:18 pm
Hi K, thanks for your contribution.
As for Melbourne, where I have lived all my life, water storages currently are at approx. 75% capacity, nowhere near full despite all that rain. If you check back through the records you will see that the closest we have been to full was in 1996 when storages were at approx. 97% of capacity. During the 1990’s daily per capita water consumption was around 460lt: it is currently around 240lt pppd. Just imagine where we’d be if we had continued consuming water as we did in the 1990’s. Inflows to our storages are also well down on long term levels.
You would also know Perth is heavily reliant on not one but two Desal Plants.
Cheers
Flannery also said this and wasn’t that long after that Brisbane went under.
“Although we’re getting say a 20 per cent decrease in rainfall in some areas of Australia, that’s translating to a 60 per cent decrease in the run-off into the dams and rivers. That’s because the soil is warmer because of global warming and the plants are under more stress and therefore using more moisture. So even the rain that falls isn’t actually going to fill our dams and our river systems, and that’s a real worry for the people in the bush.”
Yes Flannery is a fraudster that trades in ifs, buts and maybes.
Just another crystal ball gazer.
http://www.abc.net.au/landline/content/2006/s1844398.htm
A loser of biblical proportions is this knob.
We are paying taxes to support this imbecile.
And he has good company, all these alarmists drive around in SUVs whilst frothing at the mouth about how we are living in a world of dangerous climate change. The fact they produce not one iota of data to support the theory is irrelevant.
The only thing dangerous is there are too many like Flim Flam around, who are never held to account.
Come on fellas. It’s not cheap to do a “Love In” in somewhere like St. Moritz. Remember you need to be there a week before the 4 day conference and another week after. That way you can get around to some of those beaut bars and restaurants and do a little sightseeing. Combine the “Love In” with a “Study Tour”. So pitch in for Tim’s next holiday, oops I mean conference.
“Flannery has an impressive track record of being wrong”
Isn’t this true of most climate scientists!.
Like all habitual liars, he will lie to the bitter end and beyond. He has heard so many of his own lies that he has brainwashed himself in to believing them. Do note that in “Weathermakers” he states that he believes in Gaia – Mother Goddess Earth as a single organism. With such a tainted viewpoint of the ultra Green variety, everything he says must be viewed as tainted. As for the book, it is totally unscientific. It rambles on about some creature being unable to handle climate change and then just jumps to the conclusion that man-made CO2 causes global warming without any supporting steps or hard evidence. The bibliography is very small indeed and some are newspaper articles-hardly a scientific source. It is high time people see Mr Flannery as just another habitual liar. .
When it comes to global warming fraudsters, Flannery just keeps on giving.
How’s that saying go, “birds of a feather stick together?”
If you want more just google Turney of the ship of fools infamy and Flannery together.
Flannery reckons he’s out of it but he still owns over a hundred thousand shares in captain tools global warming charcoal laundering enterprise.
“Turney is also a director of a new company called Carbonscape, which set up a microwave-powered kiln in Blenheim, in New Zealand’s South Island, in October last year and has begun producing biochar commercially. Scientist and global warming activist Tim Flannery has just joined the board.”
I should of added that the information for the above came from this articule in 2009.
http://m.theaustralian.com.au/archive/news/carbon-hopes-push-case-for-charcoal/story-e6frgck6-1111119090213
Hi SM,
thanks for conceding that your deranged climate priest got his prophesy wrong; that it did in fact rain, and it did so in buckets. Glad you didn’t try to set some weird new goalposts based on the very comfortable water levels in a system that includes 1 dam–the Thompson–designed by foresighted people (with no interest in atmospheric voodoo) to protect Melbourne in the very likely event of a drought lasting up to TEN YEARS. And it worked.
As you point out, after only 3 years, the system is already at 75% capacity, and we don’t have hose bans anymore, like we did in, ummm, 1939: http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/page/596137?zoomLevel=1
Our hottest day is was in 1851, btw, and our priestsare now freaking out over the prospect of imminent cooling: https://theconversation.com/what-climate-tipping-points-should-we-be-looking-out-for-27108 Yes, they are.
The cooling will be caused by your internet carbon footprint, of course, RM – and some jetsetting by our very own crazy cartoonist/cook, John Cook. Thanks for playing.
Isn’t this sort of money collection illegal in Aus. It is, after all, a scam. He is a con artist isn’t he? So it must be illegal, right?
Summary: “Think of the children!”
I believe Lord Monckton would call this argumentum ad misericordiam.
he should be in jail for the squandering of tax payers money .the comments on that video are pure gold . good to see a change for the better in the last few years,people all over the world are waking up to the scam.
Looks like my response to Lee went missing. One more try.
Lee,
Flannery has asked for donations to help fund the service he provides. Offering a donation is optional, and is not a burden on the taxpayer: the donations are not even tax deductible. If ROM’s opinion is that Flannery is a leech then what of organisations like the Salvation Army, who rely heavily on tax deductible donations.
To me, accusing people of being leeches by asking for voluntary donations while your hand is deep in the taxpayers pocket reeks of hypocrisy.
I point out most of Queensland was not flooded in 2011 and 2013, the flooding was restricted to coastal areas with very little if any rain reaching west of the divide. Look at the map attached to the article; almost all areas west of the divide are drought declared and even some coastal areas.
As for the “record 80%” it is not the ABC making that claim, it is in fact the Queensland Agriculture Minister.