Tim Flannery: “top scientist” spent two whole months reading and felt like an “old testament prophet”
Flannery will be on Q&A tonight (bet you can’t wait). Let’s check the exact wording of his original 2004 prediction that Perth would become a ghost town. It tells us something, not just about Flannery and a messiah complex (he really does talk of himself as an old testament prophet), but about journalism. Back then journalists interviewed critics too. Flannery was even called “alarmist”. The original story had the calm headline: “Perth Will Die, says Top Scientist”. That article has gone beyond the space time continuum, but thankfully, it was preserved by the Wayback machine. Perth will become a ghost city within decades as rising global temperatures turn the Wheatbelt into a desert and drive species to the brink of extinction, a leading Australian scientist warns. –Carmelo Amalfi, The West Australian Perth in 2018, is wet, cool and productive: dams are at their equal highest level at the end of summer since 2002, and has 67 billion litres more than any year of the last seven. The desert seems to be shrinking, arid regions are 11% greener. A record grain crop last year was followed by a bumper one this year. Instead of being […]Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast)
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