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"A Senate committee is currently investigating the integrity of information
around climate and energy in Australia, and it’s unveiled some disturbing and
frankly shocking examples of misinformation and disinformation.
There are hundreds of submissions, ranging from the downright batty, to the
entirely self serving and the very imaginative. I, for instance, am accused in
one submission of being a 40-year old funds manager in England with a full head
of hair.
But perhaps the perfect amalgam of all this misinformation and disinformation
and its impact on Australia’s social and political discussion is not in front
of the committee at all – although it should be: It’s the newly released
Liberal Party energy policy.
The Liberals have managed to pick out some of the worst memes around energy and
climate, and the fossil fuel industry’s talking points, and put them in a
single document, and declared it to be policy.
It might have been useful had it been titled “climate and energy myths.”
Instead it is described as: “Affordable and responsible: The Opposition’s Plan
for affordable energy and lower emissions.”
We don’t have the time to go through all the untruths and misleading
statements, so we are going to focus on the big ones – the ones that underpin
the Liberal contention that renewables cannot power a modern economy, are too
expensive, will lead to blackouts, and the lie that its policies are consistent
with the Paris climate treaty."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
