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An expert warns:
Australian of the Year Tim Flannery, a climate change expert, said Adelaide was at a “significant risk” of a water crisis within the next six to 12 months ...
Fetch the sandbags! Flannery’s been predicting water shortages forever, and it always ends in tears - megalitres of ‘em, direct from Gaia’s loving clouds. Not that Flannery need worry about Australia; he’s off to North Carolina and New Mexico for more lectures:
Tim Flannery believes human activity is drastically altering the earth’s climate, and these changes will have a devastating effect. In The Weather Makers: How Man is Changing the Climate and What it Means for Life on Earth, he traces climate change and exposes the human-induced impact. He proposes a plan to halt and reverse this trend.
Starting with a cut in air travel. Well, maybe for you people.
UPDATE. “This is actually Flannery’s second swing through North Carolina this year,” emails Gordon. “What a busy boy! In March he spoke and signed books at Davidson College as a Henry Louis Smith Lecturer.” Gordon also points out that tickets for Flannery’s October 15 UNCW show are just $9 - and free for UNCW students, faculty and staff: “Compared to Algore, Flannery’s a bargain.”
A little expanded in my thinking at the moment.(well that is how I feel right now) With all this climate change, erosion of civilised society, global warming, lack of water and the last fucking human dies sucking the last bit of moisture from a cactus. In all of this, do you see the blog as one of our outlets of honesty.
It’s no use, Flannery. They don’t give the Nobel twice for the same shtick.
Posted by arrowhead ripper on 2007 10 13 at 05:08 AM • permalink...if Adelaide’s water crisis dramatically worsened.
So, things are OK for now, but if X, Y and Z were to happen, it’s Evian for all.
(Where the variables X,Yand Z constitute some dramatic event including, but not limited to: meteorites, zombies and/or flesh eating mutant European carp interdicting the water grid.)There is water, as TF well knows. Here in the Hunter we have about 100% storage for 600,000 people, and have been selling our excess water to other regions at quite a decent profit.
The problem with Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth is too much growth and too little forward planning by ALP governments who prefer to divert funds to ... something else. Take a guess.
Now the labor thieves are planning to force OUR water authority to up the market rate of OUR water, gathered in OUR own catchments after long-term planning, funded by US the local consumers, in order to fund the Kurnell desalination plant.
This is the future for Australia if we have wall-to-wall labor. They are thieves and miscreants who will rob the country blind.
I’m speaking as a former union official, the daughter of a national union official, and I wouldn’t vote labor now even if there was a gun held at my head.
OT Who says the Saudis aren’t petrol heads? Petrol Heads
To give you an idea of the brains infesting Western Australia, the state ALP has spent (at last costing) around 1.6 Billion dollars instaling about 50 km of rail line.
But they accused the State Libs of being wastrels and ran the mother of all scare campaigns to oppose a project costed at around 1 billion to practicly drought proof the state.
And won.
I hate my state, if it doesnt happen in the capital it doesnt exist.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 10 13 at 06:02 AM • permalinkI just logged onto the Cathay Pacific Airways site and saw this:
Hong Kong’s air quality depends on you
As a Hong Kong founded and based company, Cathay Pacific Airways is totally committed to fulfilling its social responsibility to Hong Kong’s community.The Council for Sustainable Development, a government advisory body established to help formulate a long term sustainable development strategy for Hong Kong, is now engaging the public in an open dialogue on a subject which is dear to our hearts - air quality, covering the following three aspects in particular:
appropriate action to be taken during high air pollution days
measures to reduce road traffic and alleviate roadside air pollution
demand side management on energy saving with energy efficiency and conservation measures to reduce burning of fossil fuelsSo, an airline that burns fossil fuels day and night is suggesting that I can’t run my car for the sake of the environment? Pretty damn cheeky if you ask me.
“...six to 12 months…” When did he say that? Twelve to 24 months ago?
Posted by dean martin on 2007 10 13 at 06:15 AM • permalinkJust wondering. Maybe he said it yesterday.
Posted by dean martin on 2007 10 13 at 06:17 AM • permalinkMaybe he’ll say anydamnthing for 50 grand a pop.
Posted by dean martin on 2007 10 13 at 06:20 AM • permalinkWait. He’s going to New Mexico to harp about water shortages? In the desert?
On the local front, our hot water pressure suddenly dropped to intolerably low levels. So we called the plumber, a friend and conservative neighbor (uh, that’s redundant, since we don’t allow liberals to live here). The “pressure reduction gauge,” a device meant to conserve water, had failed, so he took it out. That helped some, but the pressure was still low. It seems they’re now putting little snorkel balls in hot water heaters to “save energy” by keeping heat from rising into the water pipes. He took those out, and we have pressure! Lots of pressure! And we immensified our carbon footprint in the process!
As he said to me, “Your carbon footprint can’t be big enough.” I might say the same about your water footprint.
Posted by rightwingprof on 2007 10 13 at 06:28 AM • permalinkAnother excellent bumper sticker idea, prof.
Posted by dean martin on 2007 10 13 at 06:38 AM • permalink#22
MareeS Hi!
My grandma died at 93 - she’d been waiting for God for so long. She was lonely, all her peers had gone before her, she outlived one child and her son-in-law (my dad). The doctor said she just wore out.
I just remembered someone saying that Kim Beasley Jr was a good guy, a genuinely nice bloke.We got a whole batch of that global warming here in LA last night, about two months ahead of schedule…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 10 13 at 02:55 PM • permalinkInteresting that Flannery’s going to North Carolina. Because another bloke has already given a lecture there the report on which includes the following,
ONE of the world’s foremost meteorologists has called the theory that helped Al Gore share the Nobel Peace Prize “ridiculous” and the product of “people who don’t understand how the atmosphere works”.
Dr William Gray, a pioneer in the science of seasonal hurricane forecasts, told a packed lecture hall at the University of North Carolina that humans were not responsible for the warming of the earth.
From RealClimate, the Global Warming Adventists site run by Hansen’s gang.
There was a minor kerfuffle in recent days over claims by Tim Flannery (author of “The Weather Makers”) that new information from the upcoming IPCC synthesis report will show that we have reached 455 ppmv CO2_equivalent 10 years ahead of schedule, with predictable implications. This is confused and incorrect
Even Gore’s minions disown this clown Flannery. I have never heard of him outside of this website before reading the above, Is he some kind of star down there?
Tim Flannery was Australian of the year so most Aussies have heard of him.
He wrote a very good thesis many years ago, called “The Future Eaters” which speculated on the demise of the megafauna of Australia and New Zealand.
He’s gone downhill from there. He’s a paeleontologist. However we’ve recently established here that he is a small, pale cologist.
(That’s a wan cologist.)
He charges a lot less than Al Gore to scare the shit out of everyone about AGW. He’s a bargain AlGore!
He’s a bargain AlGore!
and he’s in the AGW game for all money.
When the ship goes down, it will take him with it.Posted by daddy dave on 2007 10 15 at 09:23 PM • permalink
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Is there a fuck off party? Because I’d like to vote for them. Whenever we are assailed by Flannery and other eco do gooders like him, the party could simply chant its monniker.