Delingpole: Australia shows us all the way by sacking its useless, pointless Climate Commissioner Tim Flannery
So what, exactly, were his qualifications for taking on this supremely well-paid gig?
We-e-ll, Flannery is that most dangerous of things – an English literature graduate. Yes, I know I’m an English literature graduate too, but I’m the exception to the rule: on the whole, it would not be unfair to say, English literature graduates have done more to promote the cause of climate alarmism than any other category with the possible exception of “University” of East Anglia environmental “science” graduates.
Well I’ll trust his theory that English majors are dangerous when appointed to science jobs. We in Canada know that geneticists and economists are also rabid. Journalism majors are dodgy too. They say they don’t understand the science well enough to comment but apparently they trust it enough to berate skeptics “I don’t really understand climate science but skeptics are idiots because they do understand the science but disagree.” Bizarre.
The money governments could save by ending the Big Green gravy train could go to more important things – from lower taxes to improved healthcare. Icky middle class stuff.
Love this: “He is just one of the more egregiously idiotic examples of a phenomenon which is rife throughout the Western world: environmental activists being paid eyewatering sums of money to promote junk science, ramp up green taxes and regulations, hamstring free markets, enrich rent-seeking scumballs, drive up energy prices and spout scaremongering drivel, all courtesy of the taxpayer …”
“Australia shows us all the way by sacking its useless, pointless Climate Commissioner Tim Flannery”
That single line up there made my whole day!
Advance, Australia Fair!
The Coalition will now take advice on climate change from the Department of the Environment, claims the Herald Sun.
“The Coalition believes it is the role of the Department of Environment to provide independent advice and analysis on climate change and that the role of the Climate Commission was duplicating the work of the Department,” a spokeswoman for [Environment Minister Greg] Hunt said.
In other words, there’s plenty more Tim Flannerys where that one came from, and who’ll work for much less money. No prizes for guessing how infested with eco-cranks Australia’s Department of the Environment is likely to be. Government departments attract people incapable or unwilling to do anything constructive with their time like cowpats attract flies.
The hard fact is that departments of the environment are not necessary. In lands where the right of private property is taken seriously and people have an incentive not to foul their own nests, the tales of environmental destruction told by eco-cranks to scare children into bed, once properly investigated, practically always prove to be complete fiction or wild exaggerations. The Queen of Australia has better uses for her people’s bounty than to pay for witch hunts.
The only places where there was no room for doubt that industry was making their corner of the earth uninhabitable were those cursed with communist governments, whose leadership had no reason to care that Stalinist industry was making the air of their nations unbreathable, their farmland a desert and the food and water poison. Come what might the leaders could have their food bought abroad for hard cash, or have food that wouldn’t risk making them sick grown on special farms just for them. Any among the proletariat who dared complain too loudly could be sent overnight to a convenient gulag. The results of the utter inability of communist gangsters to be bothered preserving their own nations can be observed today at Pripyat and beside the Aral Sea.
As for me, you can give me a call when Mr. Abbott abolishes the Department of the Environment, liquidates their pension fund and sends Australians a cheque.
While I am a great supporter of PM Stephen Harper and do believe he is the best Prime Minister this country has ever had, I do wish that he had implemented some of the truly conservative policies. He has been upstaged by PM Abbott of Australia in his decisive actions and he’s only been in power a short time.
If we had done similar moves regarding global warming and the CBC etc. right out of the gates, Canadians would have now lived up to 8 years without these things and would have realized that the sky didn’t fall.
While we can rejoice in the loss of influence of people like Suzuki, I believe he would have faded out years before had proper conservative action been taken from the start.
Now that the PM doesn’t have the same capital remaining, it will be more difficult to change course and make these changes now.
A missed opportunity, I think.
I agree.
Should be a make-believe government job for the dickhead in Ontario.
Katherine, of course you are “the” exception-! Didn’t need fake climate change charges to figure that out. :):)