Interview with Tim Flannery

[dollar12]

It was warmer last interglacial and at times previously in this interglacial, such as the MWP and the ice caps didn't melt. Antarctica is -40C, so a few degrees still won't melt it.

Antarctica is secure -- there is no destabalisation. The lack of accleration of the steady 2mm/yr sea level rise proves it.

Arctic ice floats and doesn't contribute to sea level rise. The ocean currents and wind control Arctic sea ice extent.

No-one is being evacuated from Pacific islands. Nothing but lies.

[walterjnr]

About 10 big lies in the first 20 seconds. Not a single prediction of his has come true. It seems that even he has no faith in his own predictions as he buys up coastal properties. Why should we?

[pohotoyou]

This man is not a scientist he is not qualified to make the decisions he makes

[TheJDorian]

@pohotoyou He is the chairman of the Copenhagen Climate Council you moron

[JOSEPHDANCE75]

So much for his assumption.He assumed or shall we say predicted that the rivers will never flow,dams will never be filled again.Wait a minute that was back in 2007.He forgot that assumption is the mother of all stuff ups.Flannery and the rest think they are gods but get proven wrong everyday by climate change.Climate has been changing for millions of years and will continue on changing.Just remember Mr Flannery that assumption is the mother of all fuck ups.

[sneakybender82]

this bloke lives at coba point. on the water. he is nothing but a scaremonger.

[TheJDorian]

I feel sorry that Tim and the majority of other scientists has to put up with this misunderstanding of global warming from the general public

[walterjnr]

@TheJDorian If you just look at the actual facts, not the ones put out by the usual alarmist bunch, you may understand it too.

[TheJDorian]

@walterjnr i can actually show facts if you would like young boy. 98% of climate scientists support my view. 2% support yours. Get a grip

[Superior1979]

@TheJDorian Can you please prove that 98% of climate scientists support your view?

Given there is petition of 31,000 scientist against AGW?

[TheJDorian]

@Superior1979 Im suprised you dont know this, it just shows how uneducated you are about the subject. Given i can show links you are going to have to get off your lazy ass and type 98% climate scientists in google. At least 2 polls i know of have shown the number is 97.5-98% in BOTH. Its pretty sad when your average bricklayer / office worker thinks he is more informed about climate change than the scientists who have actual phd's. Its arrogant people like this that halt human progress.

[Superior1979]

@TheJDorian Yep, I looked it up, and all i see is articles critical of the 98% figure....

Because we both know it's a figure the AGW hysterics pulled out of their arse!

Look up 31,000 scientist petition against man made warming global warming!! and see for yourself, AGW is nothing but a scam!!

[TheJDorian]

@Superior1979 Well how about you look at the actual POLL INSTEAD OF ARTICLES ABOUT THE POLL. OH MY GOD YOU ARE SO STUPID. GOOGLE DORAN 2009 CLIMATE. YOU PROVED MY POINT THAT YOU ARE A DIMWITTED MORON.

[Superior1979]

@TheJDorian Part1

Doesn't surprise me that a warming hysteric such as yourself, having to resorts to personal insults just because your science, I mean religion is weak.

[Superior1979]

@TheJDorian Part 2

As i have told you already, that figure isn't accurate, and has been pulled out of one’s arse!!!

Can you provide names of the 98% scientists that support AGW fraud? i have heard a lot of scientists complaining about them being counted within the 98% figure even when they clearly don’t support it and have written publications against it!

[Superior1979]

@TheJDorian Part3

Look up the petition project with over 31,000 signatures, and names of the scientist that are against the human caused AGW SCAM!!!! With over 31K scientist against this SCAM, I suppose you can point me to the names of the 1.55 million (98%) that support this scam. If not, you have been proven wrong and I’ll expect a retraction and an apology. Thank you.

[wellwellwellall]

twisted freak

[richard20bris]

Gee, I wonder how many times Professor Flannery has been overseas this year?

Oh, that's right, it doesn't matter....he drives a hybrid car, which makes up for it.

[MsTsarbomba]

TIM FLANNERY STICK YOUR CLIMATE CHANGE BACK UP YOUR DIRTY ASS SOCIALIST MOTHERFUCKER!!! FUCK GILLARD,PENNY WONG,BOB BUM BROWN, AND YOUR SOCIALIST GREEN AGENDA OF DEINDUSTRIALISING AUSTRALIA THROUGH AGENDA 21!!! WE ARE NOT YOUR SLAVES!!! WE ARE FREE PEOPLE!!! STICK YOUR AUSTRALIAN TAXPAYER FUNDED GLOBAL COMMUNIST GOVERMENT DREAM BACK UP YOUR ASS TIM FLANNERY,AND FUCK OFF TO RUSSIA OR VENEZUELA WHERE YOU'LL BE WITH YOUR OTHER COMMUNIST BUM BUDDIES! STICK YOUR FRESH AIR TRADING UP YOUR BUM!!!

[pohotoyou]

@MsTsarbomba

All right well said

[MsCivilwar]

Human caused climate change is a joke.

[figbat1]

what would this guy know about anything? he didnt even know the basics of how to feed himself until i came along. professor? give us a f##king break.

[figbat1]

hey everybody. im holding lectures on economics at the devonport town hall next week.

[figbat1]

i find it amazing that we are listening to someone who is an expert in palaentology lecturing about climate change. every one in australia knows what is going to happen with the money they raise from this carbon tax......they are just going to shuffle it around from one agency to the next.....and it will all get swallowed up in itself. when in actual fact if temperature rises and climate change is really on the way it should go directly on infrastructure to withstand it.

[xXSHADOWKNIGHT]

Thank you tim youve gave me some great facts for my assishment.

[opticalprism]

I still find it quite amusing that Australians and in particular senior government officials still believe, planetary temperature cycles are caused by a gas called Carbon Dioxide. Which without it, all life would cease to exist. The main and only governor of the earth's changing climate is the Sun, nothing more, nothing less.

At $180,000 a year, for 3 days a week for a Palaeontologist, who is a global warming activist, plus rude and obnoxious, heading up an independent? Climate Commission.

[2karriizman]

A carbon tax is a load of bullshit and will do nothing to improve the quality of life for any liveing species on this planet.Polluters will pay the tax put up their prices and nothing will change.Evolution is not fact it is only a theory, extinction is an observable fact and if humanity does not stop shitting in the nest all life as we know it will be fucked. Carbon is not the only problem, this planet is becoming a garbage dump for every bit of toxic shit humanity creates.Humans are BENIGHTED.

[mcdons01]

'Put a carbon tax in place, but let the free market and the investor determine what the most viable solutions are'????? What the fuck- this bloke isnt an economist- he is an alarmist. Contradictions like this are an embarrassment. Hand back your Australian of the year medal.

[Mr74Malky]

tim, we have been lied to by our physics and science teachers for years. perpetual motion is available and so are free energy devices.if they were,nt why would the greatest bully in the world (usa) have a law providing for 20yrs jail for anyone who owns one or makes one. we could have had , and supplied to the world free electrical energy for the last 90yrs. I have seen them working here and intend to build one.I have a friend who runs his car on hydrogen extracted from water. usa sucks

[clayton01670]

Tim Flannery is one of the most respected environmentalists of our time. He certainly isnt a glorified zoo-zoologist, from what I know, Tim has discovered more species than Charles Darwin and Im certain you wouldnt think the same of Mr Darwin! Im sure if anyone read The Weather Maker they would concur that it is one of the best books ever written on climate change. Is an expert in climate change such as James Hanson telling a different story.. NO

[shayneby]

When people are idle, they make up something to worry about and call everyone who doesn't believe in the nonsense stupid.

Global warming/Climate change is all propagada and evolutionists use this sham to try and support their claims. That is the big picture.

Think Global warming/climate change

Bigger picture, Evolutionism.

[711erica]

Does everyone just think all these intelligent scientists are making this whole global warming issue up?? Of course he's right. Of course there is a huge climate crisis. Why does everyone just doubt this whole thing? Everyday, there's more and more flooding, and natural catastrphes everywhere. Climate change is real.  And we need to take action NOW!!!

[AnthonySG1]

That's actually not true. Hurricane activity in North America has been easing. Sure that's one part of the globe, but it's something people have been focusing on. And the planet has always experienced natural extreme weather, prove that this has been occurring due to a rise in C02.

[ClownFight]

How do people come up with the qualification "Global Warming Scientist"?

Flannery is not a climate scientist or geologist. He's not even a weatherman on a community TV station. He's a glorified zoo-keeper with an opinion and an agenda to propagate wind power and solar power. Industries that he is heavily invested in... for money.

Can you NOT see that this is just a PR campaign for alternative and more expensive power generation sources.

There is NO SUCH THING as Anthropogenic Global Warming

[babahihibaba]

all of you are retards. he is right.

[AnthonySG1]

How is he right when all of his predictions so far have been wrong? Eg, Perth, Sydney and Adelaide all running out of water by now, but their water supply has increased.

[babahihibaba]

he is talking about the future, not now, later

[AnthonySG1]

Nice try to justify him. He made those comments around 2005/2006, and predicted the water to run out by 2008/2009. Since he said those comments those city's have had loads of rainfall to fill up the dams!

[babahihibaba]

lol i tried.

[Max5941]

Does anyone take this climate change zealot, nut case seriously? His latest piece of fear mongering is that the world will erupt into war if we don't cut carbon emissions. How about foaming zealots like Flannery and their ilk stop breathing- that'll cut C02 emissions a fair bit

[oakbaum]

"The KYOTO theorists have put the cart before the horse. It is global warming that tiggers higher levels of CO2 in the atmosphere not the other way around...................A large number of critical documents submitted at the 1995 UN conference in Madrid VANISHED without a trace. As a result, the discussion was one sided and heavily biased, and the UN declared global warming to be a scientific fact." Adre Kapista (Russian geographer and Antartic ice core researcher)  GW is a SCAM!!!!!

[marrow777]

I do expect censorship to spring in very soon.................does the WWF really have the interests of animals at its heart...................shoot a rhino for 100,00 dollars on a WWF African wildlife range oh and if you're Royalty yo can do it for free!!

[4duff5]

Haha soon marrow777 will telling us some more stupid conspiracy stories

- The Moon landing was staged

- Aliens were responsible for the September 11 attacks

Get real marrow777! Global warming caused by humans adding greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere is fact. Your conspiracy stories are fiction. I eagerly await the next great conspiracy story from you!

[marrow777]

give a scientist a nice big fat cheque and he'll tell you anything you like. Take a dose of Levell & Suiss, write some crazy theory , get some backing from Rockefeller foundation in the form of Maurice Strong and whattday know you've got a fear theory with added bonus '. Get David Kelim to back you and youve got your grants for the next 10yrs secured. GROW UP DUFF

[4duff5]

Also if you don't believe the governments research the environmental strategies by major companies. Virtually all these companies acknowledge the sciencific evidnece of humans impacting on climate change.

Many religious leaders have stated that action on climate change is a moral issue. As well as many other major organisations active around the world.

Public opinion polls in developed countries show an acknowlegment of the science on climate change.

[oakbaum]

virtually everyone supported Adolf Hitler BUT they were wrong.......................vi­rtually everyone thought the earth was flat BUT they were wrong.................virtuall­y everybody thought there was a mini ice age in the 1970s BUt they were wrong................you scientific types make me laugh you think you know everything cos you can measure it on some scale WRONG you know very little about this universe. IPCC ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

[oakbaum]

govts reaserach???????????? you mean you trust the govt s of this world . I suppose the bailouts are for the good of everyone too!! LOL

[marrow777]

You believe the biggest conspiracy theory of em all...............your beloved professor doesn't look very healthy, maybe he should take some of his own advice or is that substance abuse I smell there.

[marrow777]

aaaaahhh I see you are one of Kimberelys minions do you know she has a vested economical and political interest in this global warming propaganda..............I on the other had have the interests of humanity at heart, not ego or fame as does she, a priveliged upper class Sydney politician!!

[4duff5]

Lol!.

Plenty of personal attacks, conspiracy theories and sterotypes.

But no solid scientific evidence to back your claims!

[oakbaum]

ach geeeez Duff you don't believe in religion do you?? seein as you're quotin it!! ha ha ha...........where's yer evidence LOL LOL and I thought your were a scientist with a clipboard and whitecoat....................g­o away and challenge someone you can deal with ..............fly fly little one.......fly fly........

[oakbaum]

nothing is solid or didn't they teach youthat................

[marrow777]

You see Rick I did't appreciate and buy the propaganda at uni all those years ago, no I thought for myself and do not quote bullshit 101 !! my children are full of joy and LIVING (oops someone at the door......LOL its the bloody Jehovah's Witnesses!!) gotta run , I'm measuring the cows flatulence this afternoon!!

[4duff5]

The funny thing is that your arguments reflect a person that WOULD adopt propoganda at uni. 

I on the other hand looked at scientific evidence being presented by both sides and decided that human contribute to climate change.

[marrow777]

and your evidence for this is................... how arrogant you are at the tender age of 20........................the dumbing down of the education system has left you wriggling in your own ego...........life experience will knock that confidence and then you WILL start to learn. (hopefully)

[4duff5]

marrow777 wants evidence! How remarkable!

I think you should visit International Panel on Climate Change for all the facts you need.

And before you say ohh they are just liars...I would like to point out that all nations virtually all nations have signed the Kyoto Protocol (acknowledging the sciencific facts of climate change). If you need to find this evidence google Kyoto Protocol.

[oakbaum]

I have visited the IPCC..............closed circuit indeed. CO2 is a tracegas in the bisosphere related to PLANT LIFE, it is airborne in the currents created by evaporation/ precipitationcycle. it is the SUN which influences evap/precip not HUMANS. Solar activity is major cause of climate change which is a natural phenomena. ................ now excuse me while I go catch the gasses from a few politicians backsides.LOLOLO

[marrow777]

Pollution is a completely different issue to the fake Global warming scam. Fact is the planet is cooling right now the data and information is being manipulated by *IPCC and such arse kissing professors as Flannery.

[kimberleycalling]

And your Doctorate is in . . . ?

[marrow777]

I don't have a doctorate but will a Bsc Honours do instead? Got ya thought I was dumb didya?/ Fluent in 2 languages also.

[kimberleycalling]

The style of your comments, your lousy analysis and total lack of research demonstrates that your BSc Hons isn't worth crap. Insulting a person like Flannery is icing on the cake. Dumb? Did I say that? Your comments - especially on your channel don't indicate a shining intellect.

[marrow777]

Oh Oh picking and choosing which qualifications will be accceptable to you...that's not fair. Then again blaming humans and tacing tham for global warming isn't either. You play dirty as do the IPCC

[kimberleycalling]

"Then again blaming humans and tacing tham for global warming isn't either" - Non intellego

A couple of really valuable things one should take away from tertiary study is the ability to think critically and understanding the pathways to learning. I'm sorry, but your comments don't fill me with confidence that you attained either.

[marrow777]

Choose to ignore the relevant comment on the IPCC and continue toattck me personally.....typical tactics. As for tertiary education closest Icame was drinking a bottle of Franciscan beer!!LOl(joke btw cos you aint gotta sense of humour. Sure it si beautiful and it will stay beautiful in Kimberley long after your;re floating in space!!

[kimberleycalling]

"You play dirty as do the IPCC" : Oh, that was the relevant comment? LOL. The IPCC plays dirty? That's just a childish statement with no foundation, but I suppose all those scientists are wrong and you're right.

Well, I guess you're not going to put up any evidence to back the reasoning (if there was any) for your ad hominem on Flannery, so good night.

[marrow777]

Good night kimberley, sleep well. Btw the IPCC is a closed book, allowing no contrary opinions. Infact Lester Brown pres of Earth Policy Institute is heavily funded by Rockefeller Brothers . The entire global warming scam was devised by the CFR int eh 1950s........do some research into history!!

[pseudoslave]

revenge is sweet my dear and you are the true toffey nosed censoring initiate I thought youwere. marrow was right, you are patronising and narrow minded...........now I'm blocking you and will not read comments from you. I'm high up in Sydney society, I'm a councillor, I'm somebody cos Ive got a suit............LOL you're nobody with out nepotism and privelige..

[kimberleycalling]

No, you're a knob.

[pseudoslave]

no I don't have a knob but you profess to b a mature respectable lady ,,,,,,,,,,you speak with gutter language and allow no debate........................­facism by any other word.

[kimberleycalling]

LMAO. Jee, you're stupid.

[pseudoslave]

yeah yeah back up yer claims...........oh that's right you don't do that , get a graph show me my stupidity on a scientific curve...........lol

[pseudoslave]

how intellectual.................w­here's your university coections or would they recognise you now???

[kimberleycalling]

Sorry, but I can't keep responding to you. It's beneath me to correspond with somebody who cannot spell and has such appalling grammar.

[pseudoslave]

oooohhh never heard of colloquialism , or conversaion..........yer not sorry you owe me an apology .....you are rude and arrogant , oh and add in patronising. can'targue, just change the subject and attack me personally......great tactic oh priveliged one.

[kimberleycalling]

Try behaving like anything other than an unintelligent, insulting troll and you might get a discussion.

"can'targue"

Now what do you want to discuss?

"just change the subject and attack me personally"

It was you who dropped into my channel and started hurling insults at me.

"I'm high up in Sydney society, I'm a councillor, I'm somebody cos Ive got a suit" Also telling obvious lies about yourself is not a good basis for trust building. You're sorely in need of a few people skills.

[pseudoslave]

dufus I.m quoting you,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,you have insulted me in the past under a differenct chanel,,,,,,,you allow NO discussion cos you just BLOCK people and remove comments you find contrary to our BELIEFglobal warming.

thought you were too good to sp me??? ha ha got toyerdidn' I?? The whole world is full of beauty not just your corner of OZ

[kimberleycalling]

You're just some weirdo troll, piss off.

[pseudoslave]

LO LOL LOL

[pseudoslave]

te councillor is nt me but ierey whthrows her olitical weigtabot as it pleases h........block s n censors.FASCIT...........Obvio­usly callled her minions to thumbs down. go away .......I will t respond to you again

[MRMILO57]

Been watching some of Tim's ABC top end show, just as an ordinary guy.......I recon he'd be a good easy going bloke.

But!....this climate change lie he has got himself into.....such a shame it's making him look so bad!

[ihavefrozen]

the only danger to humanity are arrogant pricks like this. he needs to realize it was people like him that refused to believe the earth was round. i am stunned by his stupidity.

[adzidium]

Michael Costa labelled this guy an 'idiot'

I tend to agree.

[germanicelt]

Ask Tim Flannery what it would mean to his career if this global warming by CO2 dogma turned out to be false. Not very good for him, hence his passion for it - true or false.

[eprisband]

This man lost all credibility when he quoted "An Inconvenient Truth" as proof of Global Warming.

He cherry picks data and ridicules anyone who disagrees with him. That is not science, that is arrogance.

He is a Paleantologist who has jumped on the big money being thrown at Climate Science.

[germanicelt]

Agree 100%, especially when this guy says that Australia is the most backward country on the planet in addressing global warming. What about China? This is all such a crazy idea, that CO2 which plants need to breath is killing the planet. It is just a plot by the 'owners' of the financial world to introduce another tax. Watch how the sheep fall for it. Time for the masses to wake up and find out who is really running this world. Financial melt down at the moment, all done by design.

[hoogy91]

The man actually suggested the use of chemtrails. He is a propagandist.

[AnthonySG1]

Tim Flannery is quite the comedian.

[gaiatechnician]

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[mermaidwaves]

Thank you Tim for all your hard work and research.Somepeople dont take this seriously -I strongly suggest they take their silly heads out of the sand!We all have to recognise this threat to the human race.Farming,fishing and our way of life is going to be changed at best..We have already seen

changes and warming in weather paterns.

So doubting thomases think twice -THIS IS A AJOR ISSUE!

[guitarshredder18]

a fraud - An Australian Al Gore

[RoddyYoung]

Well done for having this on youtube and also for having a group who is willing to put it up. I encourage you to keep supporting the learners to take actions that moves in a better direction and minimised the harm of past actions. As a demographer I understand 1844ad had 1,000 million people on earth, now 6,700 million and 43 years time 2050 9.1 billion. Make marriage harder and not devorce earier.

[checkers239]

It is the peole who don't buy the climate change arugument who will screw the globe for everyone else.Selfish assholes who probably live in the U S of Fucking yippee I A!!!!

GW Bush being the biggest assholes of you all.

[agstnr]

Peter1968 said "It might be a generalisation but those that dont believe in evolution etc I would bet dont believe this"

Just like Tim Flannery - No evidence but you want it to be true.

[clintpgood]

oh' and i believe this fruit cake makes $60'000 a pop, FLYING around the world ( first class of course)preaching at people to not fly!!!

uurrrggggghhhhhhhhh

[guitarshredder18]

how can this bastard charge $60,000 for giving these speeches? He says there's going to be a 25 metre rise is sea level while Al Gore says only 25ft? These two need to be shot

[clintpgood]

the world was ten degrees hotter than it is now one thousand years ago (look it up). this is because cave men were addicted to driving aroung in SUV's. take the bong out of your mouth, and think a little harder people

[fergaloc]

Ignoramus.

[chooko66]

Yeah you're right. In fact throughout the history of the planet there have been massive temperature fluctuations from hot to cold and anything in between, each change being caused for different reasons. But these changes have also had disastrous consequences for all life existing at the time. Its not a question of whether the earth will survive, but if humanity as we know it will. Look it up.

[guitarshredder18]

Climate change has been around for millions of years and is a part of life.

[germanicelt]

Exactly - the global warming we have been experiencing has been mainly due to solar activities (hence global warming on other planets). CO2 is essential for plant growth. The higher the CO2 concentration in the air the more plants grow. Hence they keep taking the carbon, giving back the O2. We don't need less CO2 , we need more, and to plant more forests. In that way there becomes more oxygen in the atmosphere which is good for us. But the global elite don't want this for the human race.

[kiriakufromcyprus]

Where did you get this crap from? According to the World Radiation Center, there has been no increase in solar radiation since 1978, the time since that year is when climate change has been the most rapid. The sun spot idea is crap. CO2 is necessary for life on earth but too much of it increases heat. The Earth has gone to considerable trouble to keep carbon dioxide under control. On dead planets such as Venus and Mars, CO2 makes up over 90 % of the atmosphere.

[germanicelt]

It is a fact that the other planets have been experiencing global warming aswell. That is not due to the aliens burning coal. The CO2 in the atmosphere is only 0.6%. Increasing it abit is not a bad thing because it encourages forest growth. It has been demonstrated in greenhouses that plant growth accelerates when a concentration of CO2 is introduced, with no change in temperature. The fear campaign going on now is just a plot by the global elite to further financially enslave the people.

[kiriakufromcyprus]

As I said, there has been no increase in solar out put for 30 years. There is no evidence of plane-wide climate change on Mars. Only one icy region in the southern hemisphere Mars shows signs of melting over 3 years. On Earth, we have two melting ice caps, glaciers melting world wide, rising sea levels, stratospheric cooling (due to less Ozone deflecting UV radiations), recorded rises in oceanic and atmospheric temperature and computer prediction. On Mars you have one spot melting slowly.

[kiriakufromcyprus]

On Venus, the temperature is always increasing, you know why? Because its atmosphere is over 95 % CO2. Mercury doesn't even have an atmosphere and there is no evidence of any unusual warming on any of the other planets due to more radiation, because there haven't been any major increases.

[germanicelt]

The temperature on Venus isn't always increasing, and I notice you didn't mention Mars's atmosphere - also 95% CO2. Sorry for this to be a shock to you but there is evidence of the solar system heating up, Earth included. It's all just the banksters plot to implement a global tax. I am all for cleaning up pollution though, starting with the petrol powered car.

[kiriakufromcyprus]

Mar's atmosphere is also 100 times less dense than the Earth's. The sun isn't warming fast enough to drive the rate of change on Earth. And is good to hear you want to stop pollution, but unless a carbon tax is implemented Oil and Coal users are never going to get serious about reducing pollution. The future of the planet is too important to be left in the hands of the private sector. Watch "Who killed the electric car?", to see what happens when saving the planet is left to the corporations.

[germanicelt]

"On Venus, the temperature is always increasing because its atmosphere is over 95% CO2."

"Mar's atmosphere is also 100 times less dense then the Earths."

So the temperature on Venus is very warm not just because its atmosphere is mostly CO2 like Mars's, but because its atmosphere is so dense, aswell as being closer to the sun.

Sorry to break this to you, but governments and media do lie to us. 30,000 scientists (9000 PhDs) have signed a partition saying CO2 not the cause of global warming.

[kimberleycalling]

Yes guitarshredder, but never at the rate which we are currently experiencing. Add to this the many other pressures that we are placing on the planet's biota and we have a very scary extinction crisis bubbling along.

[clintpgood]

flannery's nuts. look into eessss eyes.

ten years fro now global warming is going to be a punch line

[seanscrawn]

I think the best way to see how much people truly believe in Flannerys message is to find out exactly how much they have reduced their own personal carbon footprint. People that think it is sufficient only to criticize the government and to tell everyone how much they love Gore/Flannery obviously aren't serious about the issue.

[ectomy1235]

dam governments dont want to do anything about climate change, their not interested in it and still arent even now, i think earth's future is grim

[wwfaustralia]

Hi Peter. That probably is a bit of a generalisation - certainly in Australia, and I've read in the US, there are a great number of church groups getting behind the fight against global warming.

[peterb1968]

It might be a generalisation but those that dont believe in evolution etc I would bet dont believe this

[wwfaustralia]

HydroBoy - Tim is referring to electoral cycles, which is the period between government elections.

[HydroBoy321]

What are electral cycles?

[kevinhardwick]

every time we have a federal election

[Lingus4]

It is a type of bicycle.

[seanscrawn]

It's a phenomenon that causes female robots to turn into psychopaths once a month.

[kimberleycalling]

It's all of the above.

[akhalif68]

This fellow is very good at explaining the importnat issues around climate change and proactive as Australian of the Year 2007

[peterb1968]

I agree, It is amazing that many people still cant accept that man is changing the enviroment.