{"id":2168,"date":"2020-08-15T04:04:33","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T18:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=2168"},"modified":"2020-08-15T04:04:33","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T18:04:33","slug":"the-tim-flannery-memorial-dam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=2168","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Tim Flannery Memorial Dam\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Sydney\u2019s primary dam now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waternsw.com.au\/supply\/Greater-Sydney\/greater-sydneys-dam-levels\">almost 100 per cent full<\/a>, NSW Water Minister Melinda Pavey considers changing its name:<\/p>\n<p>Host Chris Kenny later refines his suggestion: instead of renaming Warragamba, just dedicate a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/cje-SomYffE\">spillway<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailytelegraph.com.au\/blogs\/tim-blair\/cant-stand-the-rain\/news-story\/eea9e9017d226155306f469f60802529\" data-tgev=\"event119\" data-tgev-metric=\"ev\" data-tgev-order=\"eea9e9017d226155306f469f60802529\" data-tgev-label=\"blogs\" data-tgev-container=\"bodylink\">great climate forecaster<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"tge-imagecaption_img\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.newsapi.com.au\/image\/v1\/6e73909dd61b6d353c6bf5c25a223f20?width=650\" alt=\"That's a dam fine number\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" \/><\/p>\n<p>UPDATE. A list of Tim Flannery\u2019s climate <a href=\"https:\/\/quadrant.org.au\/opinion\/doomed-planet\/2011\/08\/damp-prophet-of-doom\/\">Flannerisms<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE II. Reader David has a fine idea:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>In hydrology circles there is this term &#8211; the average recurrence interval (ARI), i.e. 1 in 20 year flood, 1 in 100 year flood.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We could introduce the AFI &#8211; average flannery interval = the time between any given doomsday climate prediction and the failure of that prediction to occur.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In Mr Flannery&#8217;s case, the AFI of his empty dams prediction was less than 18 months.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>All the NSW dams were spilling over by November 2010.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailytelegraph.com.au\/blogs\/tim-blair\/the-tim-flannery-memorial-dam\/news-story\/55ebafeb6e0d302249adee13363a86af\">https:\/\/www.dailytelegraph.com.au\/blogs\/tim-blair\/the-tim-flannery-memorial-dam\/news-story\/55ebafeb6e0d302249adee13363a86af<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Sydney\u2019s primary dam now almost 100 per cent full, NSW Water Minister Melinda Pavey considers changing its name: Host [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1477,236,1479,616,235,1478],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2169,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168\/revisions\/2169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}