From JoNova

By Jo Nova

Another propaganda poll asks loaded cost-free fantasy-questions to maximize fake “support” for higher emissions targets.

The Resolve Political Monitor always lets the hapless pollee know what they are supposed to say. Look at the way they frame it — the pollsters are supposed to be trying to figure out what kind of Net Zero targets’ Australians want, but they’re 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 “both parties support a net zero target” but some in the Nationals would like to “ditch” it. Then they ask the crowd “what’s best for Australia”.

Presumably they’re hoping to fool Australians into thinking that most people support Net Zero targets (“Both major parties support it”.) Yet, despite this effort to plant the consensus opinion in people’s minds, only 28% of Australians say the current target is the right one. Some 55% of Australia reject this or don’t know what to think.

And only 17% of Australians want the Santa Claus option — the free, uncosted, “more ambitious” 2030 target. And we know when the IPA asked Australians how much they wanted to spend, only 7% were willing to even pay $10 a week or more. So, the 17% figure would halve in an instant if the Resolve Political Monitor team asked an honest question about the cost.

In the most loaded push-polling question, The Resolve Political Monitor 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?) Even under the weight of the “experts”, most Australians are not buying what they’re selling anymore and  56% were opposed or unsure.

Australians have their say on new climate targets as Coalition prepares for another brawl on net zero

By James Massola and Paul Sakkal, The Sydney Morning Herald

The latest Resolve Political Monitor survey showed 44 per cent of voters supported the goal of reducing the nation’s carbon emissions by between 65 and 75 per cent by 2035…

The Sydney Morning Herald 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’s the mark of a junk survey — contradictory answers.

The point of most political polls is not to find out what the voters want, it’s to tell the voters what to think

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’t true. If they believed Australians wanted higher targets, they would have taken it to the election.

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