And I thought vegetable and DNA were raving lunatics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeNDSeknn_c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNOY75_rsl8&feature=related

http://ipa.org.au/publications/1888/tim-flannery-climate-prophet

In an October 2006 opinion piece for The Age newspaper, entitled ‘Climate's last chance', Flannery asked readers to imagine what a 25 metre sea rise would look like. ‘Picture an eight-storey building by a beach, then imagine waves lapping its roof,' he said. Given the Australian Bureau of Meteorology estimates that, at worst, Australia's sea-level has risen by 10mm per year for the last two decades (and as little as 1.5mm per year in some areas), it will take thousands of years to reach Flannery's alarmist prophecy, if current trends persist.

Speaking at the National Climate Change Forum shortly after his appointment as Climate Commissioner, Professor Flannery warned Australian families their summer trips to the beach would be a thing of the past. ‘It's hardly surprising that beaches are going to disappear with climate change,' he said.

Flannery has predicted that many of Australia's capital cities would all run out of water at different times. In 2004 he predicted that ‘Perth will be the 21st century's first ghost metropolis.' The following year, he said that Sydney could run out of water in as little as two years.
Undaunted by that botched prediction, he tried again in 2007, saying Adelaide, Sydney and Brisbane would ‘need desalinated water urgently, possibly in as little as 18 months.'

Undeterred by their failure to dry-out, Flannery was at it again in 2008, arguing that ‘the water problem for Adelaide is so severe that it may run out of water by early 2009.' Of course, even amid a severe drought, none of these cities have met Flannery's doomsday scenarios.

And the forecast from his 2007 article in the New Scientist magazine that ‘Australia is likely to lose its northern rainfall' looks awfully silly against recent flooding rains in Queensland.

These failed prophecies have all the hallmarks of a religious cult-leader or wacko preacher predicting Armageddon-if we don't atone for our environmental ‘sins' against the planet. The idea that we have sinned against Gaia-by its very nature a religious or moral question rather than a scientific or economic one-has never been far from Flannery's comments.

In 2007, for example, he mused that ‘some may say that Australia deserves its fate' because of our then failure to ratify the Kyoto treaty and as a high per-capita emitter of carbon dioxide.

making flawed predictions is the stuff of your average climate hysteric. nothing new here.

Doctor Jolly wrote on Feb 20^th, 2012 at 8:00pm:

lol yes tims pseudo science says no rain, no snow, droughts for all and for ever. That is such good science there jolly.

Doctor Jolly wrote on Feb 20^th, 2012 at 8:00pm:


When I went to university science aimed to accurately depict and describe the physical world. climate scientists are trying to do so, but are woefully short of the mark. every model they build fails by a huge margin and every prediction is so wrong that flipping a coin would be more accurate.

longweekend58 wrote on Feb 21^st, 2012 at 7:46am:


Liar.

Doctor Jolly wrote on Feb 21^st, 2012 at 8:06am:

There is plenty of room for real science, just not mann made science and the church pseudo climate science. Have you watched that video and learnt something about science yet?

Doctor Jolly wrote on Feb 21^st, 2012 at 8:06am:



Mmmm, I'll consult some tree rings and icy poles and see what the future holds.

Doctor Jolly wrote on Feb 21^st, 2012 at 10:20am:

As they are retro fitted and they are simply not accurate at all, either is Hansens predictions.

You learnt anything from the movie yet?