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Widespread Flooding, Prof Tim Flannery predictions
Mar 1^st, 2012 at 5:08pm

Anyone heard from Professor Tim Flannery lately - Climate Change Expert and Advisor to the Gillard Government. NO?

Wonder why? Couldn't have anything to do with the fact that this 'renowned expert' had predicted that by now our dams would have nothing left in them but dust would it?

This is an outstanding example that these climate change scientists are full of it and wouldn't know up from down..

Drought what freaking drought Tim?

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Reply #1 - Mar 1^st, 2012 at 5:22pm

In 2008, Flannery said: "The water problem is so severe for Adelaide that it may run out of water by early 2009."

Check Adelaide's water storage levels today: 77 per cent.

In 2007, Flannery predicted cities such as Brisbane would never again have dam-filling rains, as global warming had caused "a 20 per cent decrease in rainfall in some areas" and made the soil too hot, "so even the rain that falls isn't actually going to fill our dams and river systems ... ".

Check the Murray-Darling system today: in flood.

Check Brisbane's dam levels: 100 per cent full.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/opinion/it-pays-to-check-out-flannerys-predictions-about-climate-change-says-andrew-bolt/story-e6frfhqf-1226004644818

METEOROLOGISTS suggested Climate Commissioner Tim Flannery leave weather forecasting to them as the big wet defies his prediction rain would become scarce.
In 2007 Professor Flannery said Sydney, Adelaide and Brisbane were in urgent need of desalination plants.
Four years on, Warragamba Dam is on the verge of overflowing and Brisbane last year endured the worst flooding in almost four decades.

After yesterday discovering Professor Flannery is not a meteorologist, the Weather Channel's meteorologists said it was probably best he left the forecasting to them.
Dam buster as Warragamba is full.

"People ideally suited to that are meteorologists. From what I can see on Tim Flannery, meteorology wasn't one of his specialties," Weather Channel's Dick Whitaker said.

A commission spokeswoman yesterday said Professor Flannery was in Germany, but said droughts were expected to become more frequent and "just because it is raining does not mean we should not think ahead and prepare for a drier future."

Professor Flannery's statements in 2007 came "in the midst of a record-breaking drought with dam levels perilously low," she said.

http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/national/weather-forecasting-is-obviously-not-professor-tim-flannerys-forte/story-e6frg15u-1226285686347

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beware Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 783	Re: Widespread Flooding, Prof Tim Flannery predictions Reply #2 - Mar 1^st, 2012 at 6:40pm Well said... as I sit 2kms from the Hawkesbury River and watch the farmers trucking their equipment out and onto higher ground!!!
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bobbythefap1 Gold Member Offline Posts: 7026 Listen now to the rain	Re: Widespread Flooding, Prof Tim Flannery predictions Reply #3 - Mar 1^st, 2012 at 7:31pm This years weather has been a result of the la nina weather system. Which is always different from regular weather. I am not saying that global warming is real or isnt. I am just saying you cant judge it on this year.. I am fairly sure this has been a warmer the normal la nina season anyway.
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Reply #4 - Mar 1^st, 2012 at 7:38pm

Sydney experiences its coldest summer on record

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/sydney-experiences-its-coldest-summer-on-record/story-e6frewy0-1226271689633

LATEST weather observations prove what anyone who has been outside in the past two months already knows - this summer has been a washout.
Weather Channel meteorologist Tom Saunders said today that western Sydney had so far experienced its coldest summer on record, with average temperatures at Parramatta down three degrees on normal.

It’s a similar story in Blacktown, where the average temperature of 25C is the lowest since records began there in 1965.

"The city has averaged 24.6C, about one degree below average and depending on maximum temperatures over the next two weeks, these could potentially be the coldest summer days since 1953," Mr Saunders said.

La Nina weather patterns over the Pacific have been blamed for the cool spell.

"Our country has soaked through two consecutive La Nina years and as a result has recorded its wettest 24 months on record,” Mr Saunders said.

"So far this summer, Sydney has received 303mm of rain - already above the long-term average of 298mm."

The next two days are expected to be dry and bright, but showers and thunderstorms are predicted to return just in time for the weekend.

"The storms will be similar to last weekend with flash flooding, damaging winds and hail all possible once again," Mr Saunders said.

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