More flummery from Flannery

Every country has 'em, but only in Australia would we make them Australian of the Year. We know how to celebrate our ratbags:

Professor Flannery, who has written extensively on environmental issues, spoke at a business and sustainability conference in Parliament House today and suggested a plan to pump sulphur into the atmosphere in order to repel the sun's rays....

He says radical action has to be taken because of the extremely high speed with which climate change is happening.

"The current burden of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere is in fact more than sufficient to cause catastrophic climate change," he said.

"Everything's going in the wrong direction at the moment, timelines are getting shorter, the amount of pollution in the atmosphere is growing."

ABC Online

And then on the other hand we have:

If the ice age is coming, there is a small chance that we could prevent or at least delay the transition, if we are prepared to take action soon enough and on a large enough scale.

For example: we could gather all the bulldozers in the world and use them to dirty the snow in Canada and Siberia in the hope of reducing the reflectance so as to absorb more warmth from the sun.

We also may be able to release enormous floods of methane (a potent greenhouse gas) from the hydrates under the Arctic permafrost and on the continental shelves, perhaps using nuclear weapons to destabilise the deposits.

Phil Chapment in On Line Opinion

The clear danger of the climate alarmism and its disregard for due diligence is that its critics are getting just as hysterical in the other direction. As a result of all this hype some large country, or bloc, might take it into its head that it needs to do one of these two things, and then the neighbourhood really will be gone.

Of course, if they were done simultaneously they'd tend to cancel each other out. But who'd want to live here then?