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2009-09-21 Down Under

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Posted by tipper 2009-09-21 12:01|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 When the rubes aren't buying the con, double down the fear factor! /sarc off

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-09-21 12:20|| 2009-09-21 12:20|| Front Page Top

#2 Well it's good to be a superpower in that case.

Personally I think failed states will continue to happen and thus everything he predicts will happen. But they won't happen because of climate, folks like this guy will blame the climate of course, but fact is the third world is corrupt and run by total idiots (as opposed to the first world which is semi-corrupt and semi-run by total idiots).

Posted by rjschwarz 2009-09-21 13:20|| 2009-09-21 13:20|| Front Page Top

#3 Bullshit "Science" needs Bullshit "Regulation".

Posted by Redneck Jim 2009-09-21 14:59|| 2009-09-21 14:59|| Front Page Top

#4 Flannery predicted the city of Perth would have to be abandoned because climate change would mean we would run out of water.

We have just had a record number of consecutive days of rain.

BTW Flannery isn't a climate scientist. His degree was in English Literature and he worked most of his life as a museum administrator. Until he discovered the climate pundit gig.

Posted by phil_b 2009-09-21 15:25|| 2009-09-21 15:25|| Front Page Top

#5 His degree was in English Literature and he worked most of his life as a museum administrator. Until he discovered the climate pundit gig

sounds like the exacting life experience and training necessary to be a geopolitical nostradamus

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-09-21 15:42|| 2009-09-21 15:42|| Front Page Top

#6 "Climate deal failure 'could mean war'"

Promises, promises....

As philb says, Flannery's an uninformed idiot who's hopped on the bandwagon he thinks will bring him fame and fortune. Tim Blair may have something to say about that. ;-p

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2009-09-21 15:43|| 2009-09-21 15:43|| Front Page Top

#7 Climate Change has become a war ... on Science itself.

Posted by Black Bart Ebberens7700 2009-09-21 16:54|| 2009-09-21 16:54|| Front Page Top

#8 "Climate Change ~~has become~~ always has been a war ... on Science itself."

Fixed that for ya', Bart.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-09-21 18:17|| 2009-09-21 18:17|| Front Page Top

#9 BTW Flannery isn't a climate scientist. His degree was in English Literature and he worked most of his life as a museum administrator.

From Wikipedia:

In 1985, Flannery earned a doctorate at the University of New South Wales for his work on the evolution of macropods. Prior to this, he completed a Bachelor of Arts degree (1977) at La Trobe University [2] and a masters degree in earth sciences at Monash University. He holds bachelor degrees in English and Earth Science, a doctorate in Palaeontology, and has contributed to over 90 scientific papers.

Go read the rest. I don't see any sign of a weak career. Leave the ad hominems to the leftists.

He's right that the climate changes abruptly, and that that's a worry. He's wrong to think we understand the reasons. He seems like a pretty bright guy, and I suspect he'll modulate his opinion soon enough as the evidence piles up.

Posted by KBK 2009-09-21 18:29|| 2009-09-21 18:29|| Front Page Top

#10 SOUTH ASIA > high risk for both REGIO "WATER WAR(S) + GEOPOL MUSCLE-FLEXING [read, CHIN-INDIA-PAK] + NEWLY NUKULAARIZED MILITS-TERRS???

E.g. PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUMS > seems the PM of PAKLAND has already told his Nation-People to be prepared for VARIOUS LOOMING, MOSTLY ENVIRON CRISES ALA RESOURCES [Water, Gas-Energy, Food], which in turn may lead to GEOPOL CRISIS[ES]???

* TOPIX > VARIOUS > SCIENTISTS: GLOBAL WARMING COULD LEAD TO TSUNAMIS AND EARTHQUAKES.

PLus SEASLIDES + LANDSLIDES + METHANE BUBBLES +....@.

Posted by JosephMendiola">JosephMendiola 2009-09-21 18:37|| na]">[na] 2009-09-21 18:37|| Front Page Top

#11 Flannery made a name for himself digging up kangaroo fossils and we can debate if paleontology is a real science or not. Wikipedia describes it as a "historical science".

Anyway he is not a climate scientist.

I've read excerpts from his book - The Weather Makers - and the guy is certainly a lot brighter than Al Gore. In summary the book draws the most alarmist conclusions from the flimsiest of evidence.

To be fair, I suspect he wrote the book as a money making venture and consequently made it as dramatic as possible.

I suspect he'll modulate his opinion soon enough as the evidence piles up

I see no evidence to date. Climate alarmism has made him rich, famous and consulted by the powerful.

Posted by phil_b 2009-09-21 19:20|| 2009-09-21 19:20|| Front Page Top

#12 Yeah, once you get on that train, with showers of money and adulation, it's hard to get off.

Posted by KBK 2009-09-21 19:54|| 2009-09-21 19:54|| Front Page Top

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