No matter how wrong Tim Flannery gets climate predictions he is “not pulled up by the left,” according to Sky News host Chris Kenny.

“His alarmism over the years, warnings of permanent droughts and empty dams and the like have always proven to be wrong,” Mr Kenny said.

“Today Flannery was out and about again, announcing he was going to the Glasgow climate conference next week … he'll be off there bagging his own country again.

“The man who encouraged desal plants to be built in all our major cities, $12 billion worth of white elephants, he gets a free pass in the media.”