Tim Flannery: Economist - Psychic

Economist Tim Flannery

Flannery Predicts Anarchy For Western Sydney With Fresh Climate Change Claims

I don't know about you, but when I get sick, I go to the doctor. If I need medicine, I go to a chemist. To service my car, I take it to a mechanic. So if you want to know what the weather is doing in 20 years time, you go to a meteorologist right... Wrong! Prime minister Julia Gillard it seems, prefers to get her climate advice from an economist. That's right, Professor Tim Flannery. And it's not surprising, I mean after all, when you run out of credible climate scientists it makes perfect sense to trumpet out a former Australian of the year, and climate spokesperson- Tim flannery. 

Flannery is the nation's leading climate change expert who advised Julia Gillard of the carbon tax, and has yet again warned of catastrophic weather events, only this time he seems to have mastered the art of psychic ability, by predicting mental health complaints brought on by severe heat waves, crime wave, and monumental deaths in the centre of western Sydney.

Professor Hughes, of the climate control commission said, "We know mortality goes up in heatwaves. If we get heat waves in western Sydney, yes, we would expect to see deaths". The deadly predictions come after the coolest summer in 15 years with the longest run of days under 30C.

Hard to imagine after two hard years of rain, and record low temps right around the world, that the same man that said we would be all dying from heat exhaustion and bearing brunt of a never ending drought, that he would expect us to believe in his new fear mongering findings. Sounds to me that a prime minister on the brink of her own disaster could be throwing more tax payer money at a man with as bout as much climate credentials as a cab driver doing my tax. It is on the public record that Flannery is being paid more than $220k a year by Julia Gillard, care of the tax payer. As a self acclaimed climate expert, Tim Flannery makes a good economist.

Below: Excerpt from The Telegraph

CLIMATE Commissioner Tim Flannery's work labelled "alarmist" by a renowned climate scientist who says his own predictions were "wrong".

Asked about mental health and other impacts raised in the report, she said heatwaves led to surges in violence.
"The police actually know, this was brought out in our previous report, when you get several days of extreme hot weather, they have more problems, there's more violence, people are cranky and prone to violent outbursts," she said.
Heat combined with poorer air quality could mean hospitals, which already experienced more emergency cases on hot days, recorded a 40 per cent jump in admissions from 2020-30 and a 200 per cent increase from 2050-60, the commission will claim, based on a report from 2008.
If extreme weather caused power outages, the climate scientists feared serious health impacts if blackouts caused "food to spoil due to improper refrigeration, or be contaminated due to inadequate cooking, leading to illness".
The report said hot days had already increased 60 per cent in western Sydney since 1970 and days in Sydney above 35C would balloon from 3.3 in 2008 to 14 in 2100.
From 1970 to 2011, the number of days over 35C in NSW jumped by up to 7.5 per decade.
Prof Hughes said the cooler, wetter summer was a case of day-to-day weather.
However she said the warnings were based on long term analysis of climate change.
But James Cook University Adjunct Professor Bob Carter, an environmental scientist, rubbished the predictions.
"So what. There is always going to be more or fewer hot days per decade," he said.
He claimed forecasting models to project warming, used by the UN, were wrong and that claims made about the start of this century had proven wrong.
"Those same computer models predicted there would be two-tenths of a degree of warming between the turn of the century and 2010 - in fact we had no warming at all.
"If you bring it out to 2012, we have had a slight cooling."
The Climate Commission report will be released today ahead of a forum with Prof Flannery, Prof Hughes and fellow Commissioner Will Steffen at Parramatta RSL club tomorrow night.