Flannery fired

The only part that still hurts is that these rent seekers have already milked us tax payers for millions. I hope that when the dust settles there will be some form of legal action that might see them having to repay some of their ill-gotten goods. But for now, celebrations are in order. And I hope that Ian Chubb joins them soon.

Since making dud predictions doesn’t stop one from getting promotions to high and well paid government jobs, perhaps we can make Tim Flannery Minerals Development Commissioner.?

After all, he advised in his book the Future Eaters in the 1990s that there was essentially little future for mining in Australia, and that we shouldn’t invest in them (I’ve got to go back and read it, to see how wrong he was-something about minerals be ‘non sustainable’ or something). About as wrong as his predictions on climate change, but that didn’t stop him being made Climate Commissioner.

Incidentally though, he did also say in this book that he thought there was strong evidence that most of Australia’s, and the rest of the world’s megafauna went extinct due to humans, not climate change, which puts him out of favour with most of his colleagues, who want to blame megafaunal extinctions largely on climate change. (They say this because they are obsessed with blaming everything on climate).

This is how most left wing ideologues see it: megafaunal extinctions occurred largely because of natural climate change, but climate change occurring now is largely because of humans. Of course, like most left wing ideologues, they have got both wrong, the megafauna were eaten and driven to extinction largely because of humans, and climate change now is largely natural.

Well at least Flannery is half right, perhaps there is hope for him after all.

Only the most dribblingly incompetant government in this country’s history could appoint a mammalogist as a climate commissioner. Good riddance to the fool.

Good riddance indeed, but the harm he has done lives after him. I hope your new government will lead the way in the task of helping institutions such as schools remove alarmist propaganda provided or encouraged by the previous government, and in providing some support for, especially, the childhood victims of the scaremongering.

This is great news, even if it was highly anticipated.
To these political lobbyists parading as scientists; Good riddance indeed.
And it’s also goodbye ‘angry summers’ and hello angry Tim, Roger, Gerry and Will.

But seriously what did they achieve? They’ve clearly failed to deliver on any imperative outlined in their own charter. The CC was clearly an extension of the ALP, where hard earned taxpayers dollars were converted into big fat salaries and fringe benefits for willing comrades.

I don’t know what you’re all getting excited for- the Coalition are still planning to spend buckets of taxpayer funds on their Direct Action programme, and still have a public commitment to meeting the 5% emissions reduction target by 2020, ie they still accept the science of AGW (except for Dennis Jensen)

Thank God for that. Next thing is the Greens (Should be called The Gay Marriage Party. Then the ABC. Talk about the king wearing no clothes.. Go Coalition!