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FLANNERY TRIES AGAIN

Tim Flannery, 2007:

Environmental researcher Tim Flannery has warned that Brisbane and Adelaide - home to a combined total of three million people - could run out of water by year’s end.

Tim Flannery, 2008:

The water problem is so severe for Adelaide that it may run out of water by early 2009.

Flannery previously made similar predictions about Perth, Brisbane, Sydney (great work, Professor), north Queensland ... now he’s busted down to doom-talking poor little Adelaide, where they’re only short of water because they use so much of it cleaning up murder sites.

(Via Zoidberg, who located Flannery’s latest in - of course - Jetstar’s inflight magazine.)

Posted by Tim B. on 03/20/2008 at 01:48 PM

  1. Does anyone ever point out to Mr. Flannery, or the reading public for that matter, just how often he has been WRONG?!

    Posted by rabidfox on 2008 03 20 at 02:15 PM • permalink

  2. I see that Flannery is reduced to short interviews for filler articles in low distribution, self-published magazines.  Maybe his publicist quit on the Flummoxer.

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2008 03 20 at 02:51 PM • permalink

  3. Jetstar’s inflight magazine? Personally, I’d rather have my name and phone number scribbled on the walls of every public toilet from Perth to Brisbane. But that’s just me.

    Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 03 20 at 03:41 PM • permalink

  4. Never give up a favorite prediction.  Even if it’s consistently wrong.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2008 03 20 at 04:00 PM • permalink

  5. As close as I am able to get you to a can, my friend Swinish.

    Posted by El Cid on 2008 03 20 at 04:16 PM • permalink

  6. #1 rabidfox

    Does anyone ever point out to Mr. Flannery, or the reading public for that matter, just how often he has been WRONG?!

    Often enough that he’s become a good predictor of the exact opposite occurance.

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 03 20 at 04:41 PM • permalink

  7. Where can I get a copy of the inflight magazine (without flying Jetstar)/

    Garnaut teed up for next months issue.

    Posted by watty on 2008 03 20 at 05:31 PM • permalink

  8. People should go to his public meetings and laugh at him.

    Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2008 03 20 at 06:16 PM • permalink

  9. Following Flannery’s prediction, the denizens of Adelaide should definitely start building these.

    Posted by Ubique on 2008 03 20 at 06:53 PM • permalink

  10. Isn’t it obvious?  Dr Tim is a psychologist on an planetary scale.  His use of reverse psychology on Gaia is breathtaking in its simplicity, as is Dr Tim in his.  By predicting no water by whenever, just the reverse has happened. It’s like me washing my car.  It never fails to bring rain.

    Posted by Irobot on 2008 03 20 at 06:58 PM • permalink

  11. I wish Timmery would predict Melbourne running out of water. We could use the rain.

    Posted by ooh honey honey on 2008 03 20 at 07:37 PM • permalink

  12. This all smacks of conspiracy. The old scientist running Jurassic Park, before the shitstorm starts, tells Neill, Goldblum and Co. that they’ll dine on none other than Chilean Sea Bass.

    Posted by bingbing on 2008 03 20 at 07:59 PM • permalink

  13. I bet when Flummery realises we’re not running out of water anytime soon, he’s going to start predicting climatic disaster in the form of massive, constant flooding. Presumably just in time for the next drought…

    Posted by AlburyShifton on 2008 03 20 at 08:03 PM • permalink

  14. Re #11, OHH, why not offer Dr. FlimFlam a contract?  Treat him like a rain dancer or some such.  Throw $10,000 his way, and I’d bet he’d be glad to perform.

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2008 03 20 at 08:03 PM • permalink

  15. Residents of Adelaide, move to higher ground now.

    Incidently, Adelaide’s storages presently hold 53% of their capacity, slightly less than the 5-year average for this time of the year.

    Posted by Contrail on 2008 03 20 at 08:20 PM • permalink

  16. Oh, Flannery what are we going to do with you?

    Posted by Old school on 2008 03 20 at 08:35 PM • permalink

  17. He has to run out of cities eventually, maybe then he will switch to towns?

    Even better find a different country, I hear there is a water problem in Zambia…

    Posted by Looneyc on 2008 03 20 at 08:38 PM • permalink

  18. Did Mr. Flannery visit the US recently?  It rained here in SW Ohio for 48 hours straight, and flooded half the county.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2008 03 20 at 10:17 PM • permalink

  19. Maybe he should come down to Georgia and South Carolina.  I hear that they really need rain.

    Posted by rabidfox on 2008 03 20 at 10:27 PM • permalink

  20. poor little Adelaide, where they’re only short of water because they use so much of it cleaning up murder sites

    Yee-ouch!

    That’s     gonna leave a mark.  ;-p

    Posted by Barbara Skolaut on 2008 03 20 at 10:36 PM • permalink

  21. On the subject of water - Cid, is that a washable tattoo?

    Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 03 21 at 12:19 AM • permalink

  22. None of this seems to dent Flannery’s reputation. He’s still a hero of the Left.

    Posted by daddy dave on 2008 03 21 at 12:24 AM • permalink

  23. He’s dogmatic and apocalyptic, d/dave. They eat that stuff for breakfast.
    Only a matter of time before Flannery replaces Che as the Left’s T-shirt idol of choice (snort!)

    Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 03 21 at 01:29 AM • permalink

  24. 17,

    Spot on. There is a water problem in Zambia: Flooding causes chaos in Angola,Mozambique and Zambia.
    Flannery must have predicted water shortages in that region.

    Posted by Mikael on 2008 03 21 at 10:37 AM • permalink

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