(September 15, 2012 at 4:16 am)Justtristo Wrote:Admittedly I have not read the book but so far in his interviews and the reviews of the book there is no mention of the predictions.(September 15, 2012 at 3:26 am)Waratah Wrote: I have found plenty of news reports of Tim Flannery's prediction in 2012 but cant find anything written in 2007 to support the idea that Flannery had said that dams would never be full again. I was hoping if you could give us a link to a report written in 2007.
Flannery's book The Weather Makers makes the predictions I am describing,
The 2012 news reports say that he made predictions in 2007 not when he wrote the book, which was in 2005. The 2012 news reports are from liberal loving journalists. The link in one of the reports where he supposedly made the predictions says no such thing. This is what he said. Transcript of Landline interview 2007
Quote:PROFESSOR TIM FLANNERY: We're already seeing the initial impacts and they include a decline in the winter rainfall zone across southern Australia, which is clearly an impact of climate change, but also a decrease in run-off. Although we're getting say a 20 per cent decrease in rainfall in some areas of Australia, that's translating to a 60 per cent decrease in the run-off into the dams and rivers. That's because the soil is warmer because of global warming and the plants are under more stress and therefore using more moisture. So even the rain that falls isn't actually going to fill our dams and our river systems, and that's a real worry for the people in the bush. If that trend continues then I think we're going to have serious problems, particularly for irrigation.
You can see quite clearly it has been taken out of context.
