Climate corruption: The Senate submissions stitch-up

After lodging my submission, as punishment for being on the wagon, I read the other 168 submissions to the Orwellian-sounding Senate Select Committee on Information Integrity on Climate Change and Energy. This is a stitch-up by Labor’s Ministry of Truth, together with the Greens and an independent. It will silence Australians by bullying, corruption, banning of criticism, restricting free speech and promoting legal and financial tactics to protect people from what the Ministry deems ‘wrong’ information.

The UN Special Rapporteur submitted that, ‘States must also improve the collection of gender-specific data as well as data on persons with disabilities, older persons and persons with albinism in the context of climate change’ and ‘Overall, States should take comprehensive measures to improve access to climate change and human rights information; including filling data gaps, especially historical and disaggregated data on vulnerable groups; ensuring accessible, timely and inclusive information for all, with special attention to Indigenous Peoples, peasants, and those facing intersectional discrimination…’. The UN submission sought to control how business operates in Australia, restrict freedoms in Australia, criminalise what they deemed to be misinformation or disinformation and ban opinions of anyone from the fossil fuel industry. Another UN gem was, ‘All States should immediately initiate inclusive processes to jointly develop defossilization strategies with the informed and meaningful participation of affected communities, workers and unions, Indigenous Peoples, people of African descent, peasants, women, children and youth, and fossil fuel-dependent States.’ Why Australia continues to fund the UN is beyond me.

Many submissions came from university institutes of social justice, human rights law, policy and media research. There was hyperventilation about fossil fuel use, no mention of costs and the high price of electricity, uncritical acceptance of the ‘science’ of the IPCC by non-scientists, attempts to compare the tobacco industry with conventional energy industries and EV worship. After reading submissions prepared by an army of taxpayer-funded unemployable social science activists, economic terrorists and misfits, I concluded these institutes should be replaced by institutes for morris dancing. Swiss and Canadian submissions showed foreigners trying to interfere with Australian internal politics. Almost all were concerned that they had no control over ‘incorrect’ social media opinions, wanted government restrictions on social media and more regulation. Re-education was a recurring theme. Many allege that the fossil fuel industry funds those who object to ruinable energy.

Many university institutes, green groups and private submissions specifically named media groups they wanted to muzzle being Sky News, Fox News, News Ltd, The Spectator Australia, 2GB and SevenWest and close down think tanks deemed evil such as the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA); the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS); the Global Warming Policy Foundation; the Heartland Institute; Liberty Works and the Menzies Foundation. They also wanted to shackle the lobby groups Advance and the Minerals Council of Australia but, of course, not GetUp, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth or the Australian Conservation Foundation. They sought to prevent Woodside, Santos and Glencore from being good corporate citizens and censor the broadcasters, commentators, business leaders and politicians who expressed ‘wrong’ opinions and specifically named sinners like Andrew Bolt, Matt Canavan, Pauline Hanson, Craig Kelly, Peter Ridd, Gina Rinehart, Donald Trump et al.

The IPA and Sky were mentioned many times suggesting they frighten the left. It appears that the free-market Atlas Network is a shadowy right-wing foreign organisation. Nowhere did I read that not buying Murdoch products or not donating to the IPA, CIS or Advance might assuage their concerns. Some submissions urged giving away our sovereignty and wanted the IPCC, Unesco and the WEF to drive our future.

The largest group of submissions was from disenfranchised people in rural and regional Australia concerned about the desecration of their land, property rights, division of communities, lack of release of documents, corporate opaqueness, bullying by governments and foreign-owned wind shelf companies, lack of consultation or listening and loss of prime agricultural lands to wind and solar industrial complexes. There was also concern about offshore wind turbines. These submissions declared they were unfunded individuals and volunteer community groups struggling to be heard by governments and wind companies who just bulldozed them. Many suggested that it was governments and wind companies that lied, undertook misleading and deceptive conduct, peddled misinformation and disinformation and disrespected ordinary citizens and democratic processes.

Submissions from quasi-environmental and climate groups smelled like fronts for wind companies. These submissions had no declaration of funding and accused those who object to wind and solar in rural and regional Australia of being disingenuous and in the pay of fossil fuel companies. Some submissions were anti-coal but stated no reasons. A couple of submissions argued for the benefits of nuclear power, two demonstrated antisemitism misinformation and disinformation, and two were anonymous.

A few government organisations submitted and, after their tortured acknowledgements to country, tried to justify their existence, wanted more regulation and demonstrated why Australia also needs a DOGE. The Australian Human Rights Commission wanted to jail people who question the government narrative and claim that foreign money funds those who do not accept the government’s mantra. They didn’t declare that they are actually the Comrades’ Commission for Crushing People (CCCP).

Not one taxpayer-funded climate institute in universities, the CSIRO, the Bureau of Meteorology or government departments made submissions. This was the perfect opportunity to demonstrate to a sympathetic stacked Committee that the science of the sceptics is misinformation and disinformation. However, seven submissions by scientists and engineers and two by economists showed that climate ‘science’ is fraudulent, that climate ‘scientists’ and governments engage in misinformation and disinformation and that the cost of transition to ruinables is prohibitive.

Some activist submissions claimed that those who object to wind and solar factories are supported by unidentified dark money. Advance and the Page Research Centre showed that green lobby and environmental groups, some with charitable status, are funded by over $170 million of foreign dark money. Some of these groups made submissions claiming that renewables are cheap and coal is evil. Dr Jo Nova showed that the union-dominated superannuation funds are huge investors in the wind and solar scam.

Climate change politics is not about science, climate, the environment, employment or production of cheap reliable energy. It is a step towards totalitarianism comprising a political scare campaign underpinned by demonstrably fake science and corruption. It provides opaque business opportunities to some of Australia’s white shoe brigade, China and other foreign wind and solar companies thereby making Australia dependent upon subsidised bankrupting unreliable energy at the expense of local cheap coal, gas and nuclear energy and food security.

Who will decide what is wrong-speak? Will the Senate Committee endorse corruption and the loss of freedoms? How deep is the Labor-Green traitor alliance?