{"id":398137,"date":"2025-08-27T10:05:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T08:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=398137"},"modified":"2025-08-27T10:05:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T08:05:28","slug":"poll-shows-83-of-australians-dont-want-higher-emissions-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=398137","title":{"rendered":"Poll shows 83% of Australians don\u2019t want higher emissions targets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From JoNova<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Jo Nova<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Another propaganda poll asks loaded cost-free fantasy-questions to maximize fake \u201csupport\u201d for higher emissions targets.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The\u00a0Resolve Political Monitor<\/em>\u00a0always lets the hapless pollee know what they are supposed to say. Look at the way they frame it \u2014 the pollsters are supposed to be trying to figure out what kind of Net Zero targets’ Australians want, but they\u2019re not framing it in terms of science, or what other countries are doing, or whether it worth spending $1.5 trillion to cool the world by 0.0 degrees<\/em><\/strong>. They frame the question by telling the voter that \u201cboth parties support a net zero target\u201d\u00a0but<\/strong>\u00a0some in the Nationals would like to \u201cditch\u201d it. Then they ask the crowd \u201cwhat\u2019s best for Australia\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presumably they\u2019re hoping to fool Australians into thinking that most people support Net Zero targets (\u201cBoth major parties support it\u201d.) Yet, despite this effort to plant the consensus opinion in people\u2019s minds, only 28% of Australians say the current target is the right one. Some 55% of Australia reject this or don\u2019t know what to think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And only 17% of Australians want the Santa Claus option \u2014 the free, uncosted, \u201cmore ambitious\u201d 2030 target. And we know when the IPA asked Australians how much they wanted to spend, only\u00a07% were willing to even pay $10 a week or more<\/a>. So, the 17% figure would halve in an instant if the Resolve Political Monitor team asked an honest question about the cost.<\/p>\n\n\n

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In the most loaded push-polling question, The Resolve Political Monitor<\/em> tells people that most experts think the target will be a 65 -75% reduction, and then asks people if they support or oppose this (do you, fool, know better than the experts<\/em>?) Even under the weight of the \u201cexperts\u201d, most Australians are not buying what they\u2019re selling anymore and  56% were opposed or unsure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Australians have their say on new climate targets as Coalition prepares for another brawl on net zero<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

By James Massola and Paul Sakkal,<\/strong> The Sydney Morning Herald<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The latest Resolve Political Monitor survey showed 44 per cent of voters supported the goal of reducing the nation\u2019s carbon emissions by between 65 and 75 per cent by 2035\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Sydney Morning Herald<\/em> put their best spin on the story and said 44% support the new higher target, even when the other question the pollsters asked in the same survey directly contradicted this, suggesting only 17% actually wanted a higher target. What\u2019s the mark of a junk survey \u2014 contradictory answers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The point of most political polls is not to find out what the voters want, it\u2019s to tell the voters what to<\/strong> think<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

This loaded poll is there to set up Australians to think the Labor Government are raising the target because voters want them to do that. But even the Labor party knows this isn\u2019t true. If they believed Australians wanted higher targets, they would have taken it to the election.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photo by Leo_Visions<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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The Resolve Political Monitor always lets the hapless pollee know what they are supposed to say. Look at the way they frame it \u2014 the pollsters are supposed to be trying to figure out what kind of Net Zero targets Australians want, but they\u2019re not framing it in terms of science, or what other countries are doing, or whether it worth spending $1.5 trillion to cool the world by 0.0 degrees. They frame the question by telling the voter that \u201cboth parties support a net zero target\u201d but some in the Nationals would like to \u201cditch\u201d it. Then they ask the crowd \u201cwhat\u2019s best for Australia\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":398147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818216,691819743,691819809,691818154,691837535,691837534],"class_list":["post-398137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-australia","tag-climate-propaganda","tag-climate-targets","tag-net-zero","tag-resolve-political-monitor","tag-the-sydney-morning-herald","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1984-orwell-big-brother-xl-hd.jpg?fit=2280%2C1282&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1Fzz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":363980,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=363980","url_meta":{"origin":398137,"position":0},"title":"Thank US voters: Australian pension funds are backing away from climate pledges too","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"01\/30\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"The money is leaving the room. 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