Judith Sloan on the disgracefully misleading propaganda of the Climate Commission’s recently released report, The Critical Decade: International Action on Climate Change:
This intellectually dishonest report paints a picture of international action on climate change that is at odds with reality.Even the earnest environmental reporters in the mainstream media could not take its content seriously, pointing out its many gaps and misinterpretations. The report makes the most of countries’ commitments and a possible global agreement, while ignoring the soaring emissions from China and failing to recognise that the lower emissions growth in a number of countries is primarily due to weak economic conditions.
It states that “it is in Australia’s interest to tackle climate change”, which is an incorrect statement in the absence of global efforts to tackle climate change…
The appendix of the report also contains a number of extremely misleading vignettes of climate-change policies, both in operation and those proposed (the two are deliberately mixed up), in a number of countries.
It waxes positively about the New Zealand emissions trading scheme, while failing to note that any further extensions have been indefinitely delayed and the local price on carbon emissions is currently well south of $10.
It shocks me that a government body could put out such trash in the apparent belief a white lie in a “good” cause is excuse enough to trash scientific principles and an obligation to inform.
