Australian right wing ideas about Climate Change
In Queensland, the state party’s rank and file members voted last year in favour of a motion to ban the teaching of climate science in schools.
Australia’s One Nation under climate science denial, The Guardian, by Graham Readfearn Friday 16 August 2013 Fringe and extremist political groups in Australia are pushing climate science denial soundbites……. One Nation appears to have gone shopping to the Climate Science Denial Mart and come back with the whole deli counter of debunked talking points.
“What’s really behind all the global warming hoopla,” One Nation’s website asks.
“Power. It’s the same old Marxist/Communist/Fascist collectivist shtick, dressed up in new clothes. Global warming is all about a power grab by a wealthy elite and their collectivist sycophants — using the (United Nations) as a cover and tool.”
Elsewhere, One Nation accuses the Bureau of Meteorology and the CSIRO of engaging in the corruption of science.
Much of the material is near identical to that offered by the climate science denial organisation the Galileo Movement, whose patron – Sydney shock-jock Alan Jones – says human-caused climate change is a hoax and the science is “witchcraft”.
One Nation New South Wales Senate candidate Pauline Hanson even cites the Galileo Movement’s project leader Malcolm Roberts, asking readers to check out a document which Sydney Morning Herald environment editor Ben Cubby has described as a “pile of horse shit“………
an all-out worshipper of anti-science, is the Christian fundamentalist Rise Up Australia Party, led by a Melbourne Pastor who thinks humans have only been on earth for 6,000 years. Rise Up Australia also drafted in UK Independence Party figure Lord Christopher Monckton earlier for a pre-election push.
Key minor parties in Queensland – Katter’s Australia Party and Palmer United Party – have also chosen to put debunked fringe ideas above sound science.
Katter’s Australia Party says: “The scientific case is not made out and nor is there empirical evidence connecting carbon emissions to global warming – the argument is simply not sustainable.”
The Palmer United Party doesn’t say anything about climate change aside from saying it wants a national commission to investigate the “carbon issue” but its leader, billionaire miner Clive Palmer, is a climate science sceptic…….
One Nation also does this sweet little climate denial two-step that tries to suggest that carbon dioxide is both inconsequential but also powerful enough to be the life force of the planet.
Pauline Hanson writes: “Carbon dioxide is Nature’s invisible, tasteless, odourless trace gas essential to all life on Earth.”
Perhaps she’s been reading the same talking points as Opposition leader Tony Abbott, who earlier this year dog whistled to the climate denial crowd when he described emissions trading as “a so-called market, in the non-delivery of an invisible substance to no one.”
Abbott has said in the past that he thinks climate science is “crap” but has also said he thinks it does contribute to climate change…….
In Queensland, the state party’s rank and file members voted last year in favour of a motion to ban the teaching of climate science in schools.
The motion was proposed by a party member who claims to have debunked the greenhouse theory using just two fish boxes and a roll of cling film in an experiment he cooked up in his kitchen. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2013/aug/16/climate-change-denial-science-politics-australia-one-nation
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