Should Abbott apologise to Flannery?

[freediver]

If the coalition keeps stumbling on such basic mathematical and logical concepts, how can they be expected to grasp the science and the economics of the issue?

http://www.ozpolitic.com/articles/coali ... m-flannery

[Ethnic]

Flannery: Just let me finish and say this. If the world as a whole cut all emissions tomorrow the average temperature of the planet is not going to drop in several hundred years, perhaps as much as a thousand years because the system is overburdened with CO2 that has to be absorbed and that only happens slowly.

Bolt: That doesn’t seem a good deal…

Flannery: What’s that sorry?

Bolt: That doesn’t seem a good deal. If we spend trillions of dollars to cut world’s emissions that we won’t notice the difference, well our great-great-great-great-great-grandchildren won’t even notice the difference.

Flannery: It will just keep getting worse if we don’t. That’s the problem.

The problem is that Flannery has made so many dud predictions that it's hard to take anything he says seriously. Basically, if Flannery thinks something is a good idea, it's most likely an horrendous idea to be avoided at all costs. Flannasonic admitted that Australia's suicidal task to save the world from frying won't have any impact for 1000 years. How did he think that would be interpreted? Flannery should apologise to Perth, Sydney, Adelaide, Melbourne and Brisbane residents for trying to scare them into thinking that they would run out of water by 2010. Thanks to Flannery's scaremongering we have $3 billion desal plants being mothballed and we taxpayers have to pay premium prices for water we don't use.

[Jovial Monk]

In that link creep never quoted any source.

A prediction of a specific year doesn’t sound like anything a scientist would say, given how unpredictable weather can be.

Climate change is accelerating as methane clathrates in frozen arctic tundra thaw out.

SW WA is drying out exactly as climate change predicts. SA and Vic are drying out slowly as well but WA is feeling CC the most.

Unlike Bob bloody Brown I don’t claim every hurricane or bushfire is due to global warming but the trend to more severe events is discernible to anyone with a brain. Rules a few people out that.

[Pastafarian]

Flannasonic admitted that Australia's suicidal task to save the world from frying won't have any impact for 1000 years. How did he think that would be interpreted? .

Ahhh, another Bolt listener. Thats not what Flannery said at all. He never said it wouldn't have any impact for 1000 years. He said that we wouldn't see a decrease in CO2 levels for 1000 years.


Not the same statement at all.

[freediver]

Flannasonic admitted that Australia's suicidal task to save the world from frying won't have any impact for 1000 years. How did he think that would be interpreted?

I was hoping that by quoting Flannery people would realise this is not what he said. That didn't work. Then I thought maybe if I drew a picture it would help people understand. Apparently that did not work either. Maybe people are relying on their faith in Abbott rather than thinking for themselves?

Flannery should apologise to Perth, Sydney, Adelaide, Melbourne and Brisbane residents for trying to scare them into thinking that they would run out of water by 2010.

That was a very real risk at the time and it would have been stupid not to take that risk seriously. It could happen again.

[Aussie]

freediver must have you on 'ignore,' Pasta.