By Jo Nova
A failure of democracy, of scientific institutions, of public servants and the media
Barely 28% of Australians believe the experts at our premier scientific establishment. It’s a sad state.
The CSIRO have burned through 60 years of goodwill and scientific branding. They may have invented Aerogard, WLAN and broadcast the Apollo 11 moon landing, but most of the country don’t trust them on Net Zero. They make pronouncements about the complex science of climate change, but even with a media parroting the climate propaganda on their behalf, the unwashed masses can still see through the hypocrisy, the jargon, and the biodegradable shopping bags.
A generation of great scientific work, used up like cheap branding.
Trust in science took a savage beating during the pandemic. Then CSIRO staked their reputation on “cheap renewables” and they bombed. Now the truckdrivers, the plumbers, and burger-flippers know that renewables are *not* cheaper and their electricity bill is not $275 dollars less. The smug lectures by the experts are a bore, but the glory flights to holiday resorts for the UN just make that message burn.
A group called Affordable Energy Australia (AEA) have released a new survey, reported on SkyNews.
Half the country (still) doesn’t want to pay a single dollar more to achieve Net Zero
It was the most skeptical option anyone could pick in this survey and half the country picked it.
If there was a choice to have the cheapest electricity possible (emissions-be-damned) it might have changed the whole graph. But we are not even allowed to consider that option — the one where we stop trying to control the rain with our power plants. The one where we join the giant economies of China, the USA and India and go hell-for-leather to burn fossil fuels and make cheap electricity. The ABC would call that a “fringe” position.
So this giant voter pool has been ignored by both major parties for years. Way back in 2019, 4,000 star scientists all swore climate change was real, yet 54% of Australians thought they were wrong, and said climate change was not predominantly man-made. The vast skeptical vote has been there all along and conservatives ignored it until One Nation dragged them kicking and screaming to the table. Dear Angus, it’s not leadership when most of the country got there before you.
The Liberals have still not renounced the Paris Agreement. Dan Tehan, in the Shadow Cabinet, vowed the Coalition will absolutely, definitely spend “less” than the Labor Party on the Net Zero Quest. Is that all?
They still don’t get it.
Ponder that nearly half the country think the CSIRO is not trustworthy, and yet the organization still gets a billion dollars a year.