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.
What’s wrong with these people who believe CSIRO?
As for the other 72% who don’t believe CSIRO, good news.
Statistically that must also include some Lib/Lab voters. I would assume that the Green/Teals must be among the 28% true believers. And I guess One Nation voters must be mostly among the 72%.
When are the Liberals going to get with the program and abandon the Paris Agreement? Or they going to remain fence-sitters in Opposition forever?
CSIRO used to be a place young scientists could aspire to work for. Now it’s just a political organisation that reinforces the woke ideology and Official Narrative of Government. That’s not how science is meant to be done.
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Professor Tim Flannery…. THE epitome of (Australian) modern science
Still somewhere deep on the public purse id imagine, still revered by his peers no doubt…..and himself (of course)
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It seems odd that Flannery who was/is paid a great deal of taxpayer money to promote climate catastrophism lived or lives so close to the high water mark on a tidal section of the Hawkesbury River. Shouldn’t he be setting an example and seeking higher ground?
He joins other climate catastrophists like Obama, Gates, KRudd and Turnbull who prefer to live close to sea level which they claim is rising imminently due to anthropogenic influence. Typical rich Leftist hypocrites.
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/tempers-rise-over-tim-flannerys-waterside-wrangle/news-story/a21e4e9c26a6ef556740b8af66ede292
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You forgot Juliar, also living close to sea level.
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I think that Flannery may have moved location. In any case his home was about 4 metres above the average tide. Yes, I know that means nothing because a high tide or even one of those predicted catastrophic storms floods you. I understand that recent (since 2000) PMs have retirement homes about the same level.
In fact, only the current one is planning a mountain retirement home. The sooner he’s there….
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And Blackout Bowen has a nice Pad at Bawley Point on the NSW South Coast right nearby the Beach and the Ocean.
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And then you’ve got the continued roll out of SMART meters
where they can vary electricity charges at an time of the day
probably without consumers knowing about it.
IT’S ALL ABOUT CONTROL!!
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Australia is a voluntary dictatorship not a democracy. Have a great day
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Well I didn’t volunteer for a Dictatorship
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Most Australians are more interested in sport, the vacuous cinematic white noise of TV soap operas like Home and Away, and where their next highly over-taxed beer is coming from than to notice that we have slipped into a neo-dictatorship.
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