\u201cThere is a fair chance Perth will be the 21st century\u2019s first ghost metropolis.\u201d 2004<\/p>\n
2005 predicted Sydney\u2019s dams could be dry in as little as two years, leaving the city \u201cfacing extreme difficulties.”<\/p>\n
In 2007, he claimed: \u201cIn Adelaide, Sydney and Brisbane, water supplies are so low they need desalinated water urgently, possibly in as little as 18 months.\u201d<\/p>\n
2007 said “global warming was so baking our Earth that even the rain that falls isn\u2019t actually going to fill our dams and our river systems.”<\/p>\n
An almost permanent drought. \u201cOver the past 50 years southern Australia has lost about 20 per cent of its rainfall, and one cause is almost certainly global warming, he claimed in 2007.<\/p>\n
In 2008, he said: \u201cAdelaide \u2026 may run out of water by early 2009.\u201d<\/p>\n
In 2009, Flannery warned \u201cthis may be the Arctic\u2019s first ice-free year.”<\/p>\n
\u201cAustralia\u2019s Angry Summer shows that climate change is already adversely affecting Australians\u201d 2013 based on a three day heat wave.<\/p>\n
2012 was actually only Australia\u2019s 39th warmest year since 1910<\/p>\n
He says “the heat then gave way to floods in eastern Australia.”<\/p>\n
“Rains were made heavier by global warming.”<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are hot rocks (underground) in South Australia that potentially have enough embedded energy in them to run Australia\u2019s economy for the best part of a century,\u201d he said. 2016<\/p>\n
\u201cThe technology to extract that energy and turn it into electricity is relatively straightforward.\u201d
\nThe Rudd government believed him and gave a $90 million grant to a geothermal plant in which Flannery was a shareholder.
\nThe first shafts were abandoned due to technical problems, and the rest soon filled up with water from the rains he predicted would never return.<\/p>\n
The plant was a technological nightmare and was scrapped.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re more likely to see severe cyclones \u201cmore frequently in the future\u201d 2015
\nIn 2017, Flannery claimed global warming was “drowning Pacific islands like Tuvalu and this was a widespread phenomenon\u201d<\/p>\n
Quoted British scientist James Lovelock has predicted a future human population of just a billion people, he writes. \u201cMass deaths are predicted\u201d. 2019<\/p>\n
Flannery claims that “man-made global warming and dwindling resources may wipe out most of the Earth\u2019s nearly eight billion people.”<\/p>\n
\u201cThe climate crisis has now grown so severe that the actions of the denialists have turned predatory: they are now an immediate threat to our children.”<\/p>\n
\u201cMy children and those of many prominent polluters and climate denialists will probably live to be part of that grim winnowing in a world that the Alan Jonesess and Andrew Bolts have laboured so hard to create.”<\/p>\n
“I have come to understand they are threatening my childs wellbeing as much as anyone who might seek to harm a child.”<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are threatening my children\u2019s wellbeing as much as anyone who might seek to harm a child.\u201d 2018<\/p>\n
\u201cGlobal hunger has increased for the past three years because of extreme weather events\u201d. 2019<\/p>\n
When asked about the climate science prognosis.<\/p>\n
Flannery said he wouldn\u2019t answer until the young people at the Sydney Opera House had been given a chance to leave. Things were so dire he feared for their mental health. 2018<\/p>\n
Flannery ducking out of answering for his dud predictions.
\nYou know what I came in here to talk about, Andrew, here? it\u2019s our farm day we\u2019re doing with our Deakin lecture series in Bendigo.<\/p>\n
17th Sept 2019
\n“Governments aren’t cutting our emissions enough. ”
\n“This simple fact forces me to look back on my twenty years of climate activism as a colossal failure.”
\nHis last two words are his facts.<\/p>\n
Tim Flannery was named Australian of the Year in 2007 after a number of his claims were known to be false.
\nThe $90 million Government grant was also given after his terrible record for facts and truth was well known.<\/p>\n