Here's a more in-depth analysis of the issue from the Skeptic Lawyer blog:
http://skepticlawyer.com.au/2012/10/24/scientists-found-guilty-for-causing-earthquake-deaths/

Bazz,

Anthony Cox's headline for his article was "Legal Action Against AGW"

It's all connected. If you can cast doubt on one aspect of climate science, you're likely to successfully throw a spanner in the works in relation to many other aspects.

IMO

Not before time in my opinion.

If people want to be funded as experts, they should have to take the blame.

A common argument from the global warming mob is that someone is not a climatologist, when they refute the "expert" predictions. If they want to claim authority, that authority should be backed up with the responsibility of any & all damage their claimed authority has caused to millions.

If a volcanologist doesn't know, they should say so, not bask in the glory of their expertise.

I am so sick of our ABC, & it's procession of experts, who often know very little & are simply making a grant application over the airways.

How many more times can the Great Barrier Reef be destroyed, & still be standing for the next "expert" scare next year?

So to all experts, if you don't want the pain, don't sit in the flame. Go do something less lucrative. Be careful though, a carpenter will be held responsible for poor work, so you just may have to learn to accept responsibility too.

Ludwig Gday, it has to be a mate, you know, that tells you your fly is undone?
Rudd, you single minedly hate him.
And for one reason.
He spoke of a big Australia.
Your own post history has you saying some good things about him, before he said that.
You are currently in a verbal wrestling match, in another thread, because my mate, you are blind to some points in this issue.
I am posting a thread, if it gets a start, lets talk, and may it be over interest to others.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-10-24/forecasters-surprised-by-el-nino-turnaround/4332260

It appears our climate forecasters have got it wrong.

Now, while there is no doubt this is good news – after all who really wants another 13 years of drought? – I have to say I am slightly miffed.

Based on the previous forecast heralding the coming of El-Nino, I sank two bores in my backyard, installed 3 rain water tanks, set all my taps to ‘trickle only’ and forbade my two teenage sons from bathing more than once a week, which has resulted in a most unpleasant and pervading odour throughout the house. Indeed, in my efforts to forestall any suffering from the water shortage predicted and reduce my water bill to something slightly less than our national debt, I removed every living thing from the garden (including the snails who, let’s face it suck up more water than a bilge pump) and concreted the lot, painting over it a fresco (in water soluble paint) depicting a lush forest floor.

Now I just feel silly. Much like the Victorian government must do about the desalination plant.

I wonder, based on the events in Italy, whether I, or the Bailleiu government, have any recourse in taking the BOM to court?

It's ludicrous but I don't think this decision will set a precedent.

What society calls expert is really just a person who has been educated on a particular topic, written a few peer reviewed papers and knows a bit more about a subject than many others. But they are by no means perfect. One only need look to the climate change to see that even many of the experts disagree on aspects of that debate.

I'm not so sure that the climate forecasters have "got it wrong."

The article states:

"Warming in the Pacific Ocean as recently as August pointed to another El Nino weather event, but the forecasters witnessed a huge turnaround."

"Come September, all of a sudden the temperature started to cool down, the trade winds started to become a little bit enhanced, and the cloud patterns and other indicators like that headed away from El Nino....It actually is quite a unique situation that we end up not going into an El Nino event.....It's sort of the biggest turnaround that we've actually seen in our records going back to about 1950, so quite unprecedented."

All of which may conform to a warming scenario whereby the planet is predicted to experience an increased frequency of unusual and/or extreme weather events.