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Tim Flannery (born 28 January 1956) is an Australian mammalogist, palaeontologist, environmentalist and global warming activist.
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βIn our Gaian world, everything is connected to and influences everything else.β
βSome time this century, the day will arrive when the human influence on the climate will overwhelm all natural factors.β
βNothing in predictive climate science is more certain than the extinction of many of the worldβs mountain-dwelling species.β
βKyoto questions the philosophies underpinning societies such as America and Australia, which cling to the myth of limitless growth.β
βIt is imperative to get the smelters to pay a fair price for their power; otherwise, market forces can never induce them to limit their emissions.β
βCoal fires are a notorious risk for coalmines. In North America whole towns have had to be relocated because of fires that have been uncontrollable.ββ
βIf humans pursue a business-as-usual course for the first half of this century, I believe the collapse of civilization due to climate change becomes inevitable.β
βThe golden toad was the first documented victim of global warming. We had killed it with our profligate use of coal-fired electricity and our oversize cars just as surely as if we had flattened its forest with bulldozers. It was as if, having experienced it, we did not recognize what happiness was.β
βAt the time the Danes decided to back wind power, the cost of electricity produced this way was many times greater than that produced by fossil fuels. The Danish government, however, could see its potential and supported the industry until costs came down. Today Denmark leads the world in both wind power production and the building of turbines; and wind now supplies 21 percent of the countryβs electricity. One striking aspect of the way that wind power has developed there is that some 85 percent of the capacity is owned by individuals or wind cooperatives, and so power lies in the hands of the people.β
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Tim Flannery on Earth's magnetic field
β... You can imagine the Earth as an enormous battery whose magnetic field is formed by the movement of molten metal (caused by the Earth's rotation) around the solid metal inner core. At present the positive terminal is at the North Pole, but in times past the orientation has switched so that the positive terminal is at the South Pole. Over the past 76 million years the Earth's magnetic field has reversed 171 times. No-one knows exactly why this happens, but at present the magnetic field is weakening a little each decade. Many researchers think that this presages another shift. Just how long before the reversal happens, however, is unknown.β
About Tim Flannery
Tim Flannery (born 28 January 1956) is an Australian mammalogist, palaeontologist, environmentalist and global warming activist.