Only Flannery is blown away

Written by Andrew Bolt, Herald Sun blogs | 30 June 2009

Poor Tim Flannery. Is there a single prediction made by this Alarmist of the Year that’s come true? I’ve noted below that Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide have not run out of water, despite Flannery’s claims, and now we have yet another contradiction of one of his favorite scares.

Flannery’s claim:

Hurricanes are becoming more frequent in North America.

In fact, that’s not true. And now there’s this latest forecast from Britain’s Met Office:

Forecast for July to November 2009
Issued 18 June 2009

Six tropical storms are predicted as the most likely number to occur in the North Atlantic during the July to November period, with a 70% chance that the number will be in the range three to nine. This represents below-normal activity relative to the 1990–2005 long-term average of 12.4.

Recall how Al Gore cynically exploited the frenzy over Hurricane Katrina to promote his global warming scare, even putting a picture of a hurricane on the poster of An Inconvenient Truth?

Then wonder why he and Flannery are not called to account everywhere they go for so loudly predicting disasters which have not come to pass.

(Thanks to reader Steve.)

UPDATE

Terry McCrann:

THE expansion of wind and solar ‘green power’ will waste billions and destroy far more jobs than it supposedly creates…

The damning analysis comes from Madrid’s Universidad Rey Juan Carlos… It is particularly potent because Spain has made arguably the broadest commitment to the construction and production of electricity from these renewable sources. The analysis has two major conclusions.

That for every ‘green job’ the state manages to finance, at least 2.2 jobs are lost elsewhere in the economy. And that does not count the extra jobs that could have been created if the money poured into wind and solar had been spent elsewhere.

That’s the second point the huge waste of money. For the study calculates that since 2000, Spain has spent 571,000 ($A1 million) to create each ‘green job’ including subsidies of more than 1 million per wind industry job.

I’ve mentioned this analysis before, but McCrann notes that nothing like it has been done by our own Treasury, despite the Rudd Government promising scores of extra millions for solar and wind power:

You can search in vain for any serious cost-benefit analysis from our utterly compromised Federal Treasury, which used to be a bastion of reason and intellectual substance. But is now an institutional apostle of climate hysteria.... If we seriously tried to get to 20 per cent ‘alternative’ the cost on Australian consumers would be huge, the destruction of real jobs massive.

So why won’t Treasury tell us the real price?

Source