Australian science has gone overboard for ‘climate action’

Naturally, this ANU is a major propagandist for climate-policy net-zero, not omitting the 11.55pm trope. "Experts" at their Institute for Climate, Energy and Disaster Solutions lobby for 2035 net-zero, 2050 lacking sufficient virtue.

Including ICEDS, CCA, and CSIRO, Labor government maintains a footy-team of climate-energy acronyms. On the contestable proposition, that blanket-renewables must be our least-cost solution in an inevitably net-zero world.

Out on an ideological limb, Labor's Treasury imagines said "zero" transforming the lucky country into a "post" carbon, energy and economic "superpower". Highly unlikely. Treasury neoliberalism having purged our old industrial base, we don't get a new one on a platter.

Where Australian science ought to be

Here's a thing about science. It's meant to be over-there and curiously dispassionate, tirelessly proving/disproving all manner of testable (or null) hypotheses. Not up close and personal, pressing its thumb on national (and international) applause-meters.

How much would you trust Australian "science" generated by Treasury doctrine and its team of climate-acronyms? By the Sydney UNSW climate-unit, or other state universities?

Whatever our utopian law dictates, anthropogenic emissions "netting" to zero was and is highly contestable, inviting academic sleuthing. Even more so, the elite groupthink that said "zero" can restore our ever struggling environment and "transform" our narrow economy.

For the non-elite, however, net-zero heralds austerity not comfort. But "inconvenient" Australian research is rare – and gets ignored. Conservative stakeholders IPA and CIS wave cautionary flags. Our other resources-titan, Gina Rinehart, dubs net-zero a magic pudding .

With only isolated media and political support, these parties get little traction, against the national (that is, nationalistic) tide of "climate science". You wouldn't be that welcome at PM's upcoming productivity love-in if querying his net-zero open-borders catechisms.