| Tim Flannery | |
|---|---|
| Born | Timothy Fridtjof Flannery 28 January 1956 (age 66) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Alma mater | La Trobe University |
| Organisation | Climate Council University of Melbourne Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies[1] |
| Known for | Scientist, explorer and conservationist, and Australian writer on climate change. |
| Notable work | The Weather Makers |
| Awards | Australian of the Year (2007)[2] |
Timothy Fridtjof Flannery FAA (born 28 January 1956) is an Australian mammalogist, palaeontologist, environmentalist, conservationist,[3] explorer,[4] and public scientist. He has discovered more than 30 mammal species[5] (including new species of tree kangaroos[6]). He served as the Chief Commissioner of the Climate Commission, a Federal Government body providing information on climate change to the Australian public before the commission was abolished by the Abbott Government as its first act of government. On 23 September 2013, Flannery announced that he would join other sacked commissioners to form the independent Climate Council, that would be funded entirely by the community, and continue to provide independent climate science to the Australian public.
Flannery is a professorial fellow at the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, University of Melbourne.
Flannery was named Australian Humanist of the Year in 2005,[7] and Australian of the Year in 2007. Until mid-2013 he was a professor at Macquarie University and held the Panasonic Chair in Environmental Sustainability.[8] He was also chairman of the Copenhagen Climate Council, an international group of business and other leaders that coordinated a business response to climate change and assisted the Danish government in the lead up to COP 15.[9] In 2015, the Jack P. Blaney Award for Dialogue recognized Tim Flannery for using dialogue and authentic engagement to build global consensus for action around climate change.[10] His views on shutting down conventional coal-fired power stations for electricity generation in the medium term are frequently cited in the media.
Well that might imitate impressive but no, he is the veritable face of the fraud of Global Warming, now retitled Climate Change as the warming that propelled failed US Presidential Candidate Al ( short for Albert, not as might well have assumed as Alphonse) Gore to midas like riches, stupendously failed to deliver the catastrophic warming that he predicted and was believed by far too many , but still fuels a propaganda war that would have had Goebbels considering his career far less su .
A decade and a half ago this charlatan launched a fear of drought campaign in support of the UNIPCC calls to address the coming Armageddon, that there would not be enough rainfall to provide water to Queensland, New South Wales and Western Australia urban supply networks leading to investments in desalination plants that in the absence of reliable energy become very marginal economically, exacerbated for all Australians by the Urban Melons drive to solar and wind to replace coal and gas.
Flannery has a considerable reputation in some of his fields listed above but Climate is one very expensive and seriously misguided lurch into another trough. Recent catastrophic floods along the eastern seaboard bearing witness to a degree of that disastrous chasing after academic money so bewildering to taxpayer providers of his lifestyle funding.
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