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GHOST CITY SOAKED
2004:
Perth will become a ghost city within decades as rising global temperatures turn the wheatbelt into a desert and drive species to the brink of extinction, a leading Australian scientist warns.
Australian paleontologist and popular author Tim Flannery said Perth was a city on the edge - isolated, dependent on energy and declining water supplies and more likely to feel the effects of global warming ...
2008:
Perth remains on track to break the record for the wettest April ever recorded ...
Before today, persistent lows have soaked the city with 107.8mm of rain since the start of the month and only 41mm of rain needs to fall to break the 1926 April record of 148.8mm.
The man has no shame. What an idiot. How he has any credibility with anyone is beyond my comprehension.
Posted by Mystery Meat on 2008 04 17 at 12:16 PM • permalinkThe only ghost around here are Flannery’s predictions, and that’s because they are dead and buried.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2008 04 17 at 03:03 PM • permalinkYou see! You see!!
Who would have predicted this?
The unpredictability of predictions is proof of
Global WarmingClimate Change.Posted by Toiling Mass on 2008 04 17 at 04:42 PM • permalink#4 - Mojo, you see, what you do is grab some dinosaur bones (preferably knuckles) and put them in a cup and shake it, then toss the bones onto the ground.
The way the bones land on the ground - which way up they land, and their relationship to each other - is a very accurate way to forecast the climate over a 50-100 year timeframe.
Posted by mr creosote on 2008 04 17 at 05:16 PM • permalinkIn the 24 hours to 9am Thursday 17/04/08, Perth received 23mm of Flannery drought… TimB must be dreading the day TimF becomes a Collingwood supporter.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 04 17 at 05:32 PM • permalinkit flooded on the plains last year,
but t’was dry upon the range
said Flummery “t’is all the proof we need-
it MUST be climate change!”the doubters all were quickly silenced by the ecoistas and their mates
Chairman Rudd sent his apologies-
he had to visit Cate.Posted by anonymous guest on 2008 04 17 at 06:00 PM • permalinkDefinition of ‘flan’: ‘A flan is an upscale, classy custard, yes. But it is more; it is an elegant, rich dessert that can be adapted to almost any occasion. No, they are not simple to make. They are not like instant pudding or jello, but you would not want them to be’.
Definition
So ‘flannery’: ‘the academic art of making yourself rich by producing popular, pretentious, highly adaptable, but intellectually unreliable and unnourishing books and talks.’
See journalism and ‘fiskery’Does no one publicly call the Flanster out for his idiotic predictions!! He shouldf be publicly humiliated and degraded for this hysteria.
Meanwhile, I have a coinversation today something along the lines of:
“It’s going to be a bad year for hurricanes”
“Why?” I ask.
“The weathermen are predicting it”
“If you predict a bad year for hurricanes every year, eventually you will be right” I respond.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2008 04 17 at 06:37 PM • permalinkFlannery’s our man
he’s got it in the can
he often talks to Stern
to see what he can learnFlannery’s our man
he loves the ABC
where he gushes and gesticulates
and cons our leading leftie primatesFlannery’s our man
but where is he today
he’s preparing scripts inside a plane
predicting there will be no rainBut his predictions seem to be quite flaky
his reputation’s now very shaky
will his life become a play
titled ‘Flannery our man of yesterday’Puzzling. It’s almost as if water evaporates from the surface of the earth and comes down again as precipitation.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2008 04 17 at 07:17 PM • permalinkPhew it must have been an awfully close run thing, disaster pending 2004, disaster averted 2008. Does Flannery know how we so narrowly dodged this bullet? Maybe it was Earth Hour?
Posted by the nailgun on 2008 04 17 at 07:45 PM • permalinkAuthor Flannery cried “It grows hot!”
“Yet the people are listening not.
So I’ll forecast a dearth,
Of water for Perth,
Which will bring them around like a shot!”But alas for poor Tim, it did pour,
Filling water reserves by the score.
A new vision he’ll seek,
Mayhap in a week,
That the Greens will be sure to adore!Posted by Infidel Librarian on 2008 04 17 at 08:02 PM • permalinkI was reading the exact opposite about W.A. last year. The article I read was saying that persistent increases in rain year by year were turning huge areas of W.A. into arable land.
On another topic altogether the ABC reports today Australians became richer, smarter and healthierduring the 10 years of Howard government. They couldn’t help but add: “these figures were collected before the recent spike in interest rates, the stock market corrections and the fall in consumer sentiment”. Which of course they failed to point out all happened on Kevin’s watch.
Orion, for God’s Sake, man, don’t tell her about Planet X…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2008 04 17 at 08:39 PM • permalink#24
It’s almost as if water evaporates from the surface of the earth and comes down again as precipitation.
Seems to be An Inconvenient Truth for the AlGorithm.
Alleged AGW to Al only seems to bring rising sea levels thru melting ice and more frequent hurricanes (i.e. all piss and wind) ... yet he also states that disruption of the ocean currents can cause an Ice Age in as little as a decade.
Would’ve thought the latter would be more of a threat to you higher latitude types, Al?
Snow is predicted for Seattle this weekend. It will be the latest snow in 100 years. Must be all the Warmening taking place here. My guess this is Gaia’s response to the Washington States Democrats proposal to annually tax all cars based on engine size.
Posted by swassociates on 2008 04 17 at 09:21 PM • permalink- Posted by richard mcenroe on 2008 04 17 at 09:31 PM • permalink
O/T. I know there was a lot of controversy about Rudd apologizing to the aboriginals, but sometimes a national apology is the right thing to do. So, on behalf of the U.S., I apologize for this guy.
re #37, paco, I apologize for that goober still stealing oxygen.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2008 04 17 at 09:52 PM • permalinkSpeaking of OT - yesterday it read like this but now it reads like this so it’s like the correction never happened and the chap quoted from the observatory sounds like a goose. This is not a proper correction - dummkopfs.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2008 04 17 at 10:26 PM • permalinkSorry to be OT as well but what is the assessment of the Dem Debate from the US readers? Has Obama hit the wall as Capt Ed seems to think at Hot Air?
Posted by the nailgun on 2008 04 17 at 11:04 PM • permalink#40, as far as I know, the only state going ahead with a ban on bags is SA. See:
The article mentions that Victoria will be trialling a levy in partnership with the retailer’s association but that’s only in 1-2 stores (I believe).
If you want an indication of how much a ban or levy would have cost the community, this would be a good start:
I think the lack of agreement seems to be due to Rudd telling Garrett that he couldn’t impose even more costs on ‘working families’.
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2008 04 17 at 11:05 PM • permalinkThe resaon that garret couldn’t get cabinet apporval for a levy on bags would no doubt be because it would have cost more to administer the program than the money raised. The other options probably involve state governments making the decision- hence they get to wear the angst.
Of course, who gets to wear the angst was the key reason agreement was not reached, not any logical reason like the proposed ban was a load of cobblers. So much for unity of purpose across jurisdictions now they are all one party.By now you would think that the proponents of global warmening/global wetting/climate change would have noticed the articles in most forms of communications proving at least that the “science” is not settled.
Are they so blind that they don’t even look at our scribblings even as a push to go and investigate elsewhere?
Anyway what happened to the basic tenets of the Conservation Laws of energy and matter/mass?
They have to notice sooner or later - don’t they?#49 They have to notice sooner or later - don’t they?
It’s going to take a temperature plunge to shake this thing. You’d think that the absense of the apocalypse would be enough to open eyes, but unfortunately people are very good at seeing what they want to see. Apocalypse is always just around the corner.
The problem is if we don’t get a sudden cooling period. We might, but we might not. If instead the world just keeps bumping along as it has been, then this “global warming” myth will stick around for years like a fart that won’t die.
Posted by daddy dave on 2008 04 18 at 01:18 AM • permalinkHere’s a comment made by a reader at Bolta’s blog. He quotes Dick Cheney’s belief in Global Warming.
“Vice President Dick Cheney doesn’t think much of climate change either.
At the annual Radio and Television Correspondents dinner yesterday he said,"I have no doubt that we are in the midst of a global warming, or, as I prefer to call it, spring. And, I don’t want to sound like an alarmist, but it’s going to get a lot warmer before it gets cooler.”
Gordon H (Reply)
Fri 18 Apr 08 (02:28pm)”Bloody Brilliant!!!
Man, I don’t know about you guys, but with Rudd’s summit soon to be thrust upon us, and the hinted-at webdiary coverage, I’m not sure how how I am going to get any sleep.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2008 04 18 at 02:22 AM • permalinkc/- Bolta:
‘An inconvenient truth can be found in the official NEMMCO (National Electricity Market Management Company) market data which showed that Victorian electricity demand during Earth Hour averaged 5390 megawatts, some 2.5 per cent higher than for the same hour the previous Saturday.’
Vindication.
#50 - I thought we in the decadent West had the monopoly on the trade-in marriage routine.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 04 18 at 05:18 AM • permalink#56 Hello, is that the Russian Brides ‘n Poontang Co.?
My good friend Nicolas sent me and would like to claim his bottle of absolut - say, got any young gymnasts?
Posted by Margos Maid on 2008 04 18 at 07:39 AM • permalinkSort of on topic…
Anyone seen this?
From the merely ridiculous to the borderline obscene.
Posted by WingDynasty on 2008 04 18 at 01:02 PM • permalink#36 Richard, it gets better for cricket when you know that the new form of 20/20 that is being described here is all over in about 3 hours of walloping by the batsmen.
It’s sort of baseball where there is one innings of 120 pitches and 11 batters, followed by the other team.
Eat your heart out baseball fans - most of these games will produce about 10 to 15 ‘homers’#60, Brian, oh dont be silly. We need all the dams we can get now the desal plant has had its output slashed.
That pipeline from the Fitzroy looks better ever year doesnt it?
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2008 04 18 at 09:56 PM • permalink63 - Hoo boy.
And he (Sam Mostyn) asks that the spirits of the local traditional owners “guide us.”
Those local traditional owners had a fairly limited number of ideas, Sam. Do you really intend to take up the nomadic lifestyle, if that’s their advice? Do the women attending the summit agree to become sexual chattel, should the spirits so decree?
What about infanticide as a means of population control? I’d love to hear Cate Blanchett’s views on that, Sam.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 04 19 at 03:38 AM • permalink#64 Is there anything more cringeworthy?
Imagine if someone opted for a thanks to Christ.
Wouldn’t that bring out the pinkos? Yet some PC bullshit acknowledgement of the original wanderers is put up on a pedestal.
Puts it in the same ‘god like’ category of green worship.
And it is the same people who say we are not suffering a spiritual vacuum.
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I guess it is fairly well established that whatever Flummery predicts, the exact opposite will occur.