Lots of traveling by air... 1st class of course, and lots of hot-air speaches.
:)))
ABC's Lateline, June 10, 2005:
TIM Flannery: The science around climate change is firming up fairly quickly ... these are sophisticated computer tools ... Sydney will be facing extreme difficulties with water.
Sydney Catchment Authority, NSW government, Thursday:
Dam levels 93.6 per cent.
*** The ABC's Radio National, The Science Show, January 1, 2011:
FLANNERY: I think that within this century the concept of the strong Gaia will actually become physically manifest. I do think that the Gaia of the ancient Greeks, where they believed the earth was effectively one whole and perfect living creature, that doesn't exist yet, but it will exist in future ... ants of course have democratic processes; they actually vote ... We've seen the IPCC projections are now ground truthed against real-world change, and we see that we're tracking the worst-case scenario, which is six degrees of warming.
Robyn Williams: Six!
Flannery: We'll never be able to control the earth ... We can't control its systems. But we can nudge them and we can foresee danger. Once that occurs, then the Gaia of the ancient Greeks really will exist. This planet, this Gaia, will have acquired a brain and a nervous system. That will make it act as a living animal, as a living organism, at some sort of level.
