on โ21-09-2013 04:25 PM
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.
No surprises in climate agencies' dismantling
"..Chief Commissioner, Tim Flannery, is Australia's Al Gore in that he is the figure most loathed and pilloried by the people who are
not convinced of the climate science. Much was made of his commissioner's salary and his supposed waterfront property..."
http://www.abc.net.au/environment/articles/2013/09/19/3852408.htm
Are we really going to miss Tim? ...... I say NO.
Solved! Go to Solution.
on โ22-09-2013 04:06 PM
LL the climate has always been changeable , fires have always happened, floods have always happened and drought has always happened. not amount of tax will change that fact.
There has been a hypothesis that carbon dioxide may have an effect on global temperature but no conclusive proof.
Attempts have been made to reduce the global CO2 content but it continues to rise at the same rate.Throwing money into government coffers has not altered the rate of co2 one iota
on โ23-09-2013 10:19 AM
With Articles such as this....
I can understand why you don't like the Telegraph.....![]()
TIM Flannery has been sacked. But why haven't journalists who promoted such scaremongers been sacked, too?
When will they pay the price for the most shameful collective failure of journalism in decades?
Flannery's astonishing record of dud predictions, such as his 2007 warning that we'd never again get dam-filling rains, finally caughtup with the Chief Climate Commissioner this week.
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But it's too easy to merely give Flannery the flick now his warming faith is finally crumbling. It's too easy to make him the sole
scapegoat after 15 years of no significant rise in global temperature - a hiatus to which the United Nations' Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change will on Friday reluctantly admit in its latest report.
More important is to demand accountability from the countless journalists who made heroes of his sort and terrified the public
with preposterous scares about a warming that hasn't come.
For years, most in the mainstream media didn't just refuse to question the great global warming scare, but howled down the few
who dared to.
Journalists became propagandists, even witch-hunters. And the biggest cabal of them gathered in the ABC.....
...Dr Karl Kruszelnicki, another ABC science presenter, was this year still insisting Britain's influential Met Office had detected
0.3C of warming since 1997, even after the Met Office itself announced the real figure was just 0.05C.
...But now the warming pause is so undeniable that even The Age, after 15 years, on Saturday was forced to acknowledge it.
In fact, Professor Judith Curry, a former warmist and chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia
Institute of Technology, now says the two decades of warming we saw before 1997 could just have been natural. Ergo: the theory
of dangerous man-made warming could be bust.
On Judith Curry - (I received a Ph.D. in Geophysical Sciences from the University of Chicago in 1982. Prior to joining the faculty at Georgia Tech, I held faculty positions at the University of Colorado, Penn State University and Purdue University. I currently serve on the NASA Advisory Council Earth Science Subcommittee and the DOE Biological and Environmental Science Advisory Committee, and have recently served on the National Academies Climate Research Committee and the Space Studies Board, and the NOAA Climate Working Group. I am a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Geophysical Union).
As Dr Roy Spencer, who leads the US team that monitors global temperatures measured from NASA's Aqua satellite, says: "We
are now at the point in the age of global warming hysteria where the IPCC global warming theory has crashed into the hard
reality."....
Yes Iza...they do seem to show that Alarmism is a dying religion........![]()
on โ21-09-2013 04:32 PM
"....The Climate Change Authority, meanwhile, was formed with the suite of legislation to bring about the price on carbon.Its job
(among other things) is to advise on the best carbon price and set the emissions reduction targets for Australia.
However, if the price on carbon is being abolished, the reasons for retaining the Authority are fewer..."
Goodbye Climate Commission.....see ya later Climate Change Authority.......
"..that more CO2 in the atmosphere is, on the whole, good for life on Earth.".... now for the Alarmists to catch up!!
on โ21-09-2013 04:37 PM
That's ok.. he can go and live in his water front home.. apparently only meters from the waters edge...I always wondered if he was so concerned about climate change and ocean levels rising then why did he buy in the pathway of that destruction???
on โ21-09-2013 04:41 PM
if the water rises by a metre there , flannerys house is still ok because of the slope . thats why. elsewhere the picture is less rosy.
on โ21-09-2013 04:47 PM
if "if" was a racehorse id be rich
on โ21-09-2013 04:49 PM
@catmad*2013 wrote:That's ok.. he can go and live in his water front home.. apparently only meters from the waters edge...I always wondered if he was so concerned about climate change and ocean levels rising then why did he buy in the pathway of that destruction???
.... I wonder how big the house is too..... I'm sure he must have been considering its carbon footprint surely....![]()
on โ21-09-2013 05:01 PM
Another thing we now have less chance of being 'in the know' about ....good one Tony ![]()
on โ21-09-2013 05:03 PM
on โ21-09-2013 05:04 PM
@izabsmiling wrote:Another thing we now have less chance of being 'in the know' about ....good one Tony
care to elaborate
on โ21-09-2013 05:05 PM
@lakeland27 wrote:
@*ibis wrote:if "if" was a racehorse id be rich
if it doesn't his house is still fine .
but tim on the other hand will cook as well as everyone else.