9 June 2011

Say “Yes” to Removing Unsatisfactory Polls

Until recently, the websites of all The Australian Greens’ federal members provided a poll (available since May, 2009) whereby people could vote on the question, “Do you support the Greens’ plan on emissions trading?”  Here it is on Sen. Bob Brown’s website:


For some reason—uncharitable cynics (which does not include us) might suggest that the results were not quite was the Greens would favour—the poll is no longer available.  Joanne Nova reports that, of 2,000 votes, 80% were “No”.  The Greens, however, do provide other polls for concerned visitors to express their agreement, or otherwise, with Green policies:


We have written to the Australian Greens asking for an explanation for the poll’s disappearance; naturally, we shall provide details of any response we receive.
By “emissions”, the Australian Greens refer to industrially produced carbon dioxide, that benificent gas which we all exhale and which is necessary for life on earth.  According to the Greens’ policy document, “Why do we want to cut emissions?”:
It can never be said too often that emissions reductions have one purpose only – to avoid catastrophic climate change. 
The Australian Greens will surely be glad to learn that reputable scientists can assure us that anthropogenic carbon dioxide does not and will not cause catastrophic climate change; the Greens can, therefore, safely reject any proposal for taxing carbon dioxide.

UPDATE I:  David Paris, Digital Communications Coordinator for the Greens’ Parliamentarians, has kindly and swiftly responded to our query; he writes:
We have not used the poll feature on our website for some time.
There are several old items on our site that relate to the 2009 negotiations around the Rudd government’s deeply flawed CPRS that have been removed to avoid confusion with the current debate about a price on pollution.  The poll you are referring to is one of those – from May 2009.
By “price” he means a suitably punitive tax-rate, we assume, and by “pollution” he means carbon dioxide.  Someone might excusably wonder whether the poll question—still open—from 12 October, 2009, “Do you think the Government should support the Greens’ Safe Climate Bill”, did not also relate to “the Rudd government’s deeply flawed CPRS”.

UPDATE II (10 June):  The story continues at Joanne Nova’s site. 

UPDATE III (11 June):  See, there is no recent, catastrophic warming:

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Carbon DIOXIDE is Plant Food and is essential for the continuance of all life on Earth.
All Life on Earth is Carbon based.
The greens(REDS) and the ALP (Australian Liars Party) attempt to confuse the gullible by using the term carbon when they mean carbon DIOXIDE.
Those that want to demonize carbon and carbon DIOXIDE are simply ANTI HUMAN and ANTI LIFE.

Anonymous said...

Yet another poll about the plant food (carbon DIOXIDE) TAX..........

http://sarah-hanson-young.greensmps.org.au/polls/do-you-think-government-should-adopt-greens-safe-climate-bill

THE OBVIOUS ANSWER IS “NO”......

Since their previous one did not yield the response that they wanted they have reworded it to try and fool gullible people.

Say Yes to Stupidity said...

Anonymous, the poll you mention has been available since 12 October, 2009; however, it does suggest that David Paris should have looked more closely at the webpage before writing, “We have not used the poll feature on our website for some time.
There are several old items on our site that relate to the 2009 negotiations around the Rudd government’s deeply flawed CPRS that have been removed to avoid confusion with the current debate about a price on pollution.”

Anonymous said...

Send Gillard a fax using the free online fax service!!!

How good is this?
Julia Gillard… I want you to listen!!
Go to http://www.iwantyoutolisten.com/

and fax her about the carbon tax!

TELL HER WE DO NOT WANT A TAX ON CARBON DIOXIDE, WHICH IS PLANT FOOD AND NOT POLLUTION !

“There will be no carbon tax under the government I lead”
- Julia Gillard, Less than a week before the federal election

Anonymous said...

How dare this ad about carbon DIOXIDE (PLANT FOOD) tell such lies?

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/how_dare_this_ad_tell_such_lies/

Greens run and hide from poll results

http://joannenova.com.au/2011/06/greens-run-and-hide-from-poll-results/comment-page-2/#comment-340705

Skeptics rule online polls

http://joannenova.com.au/2011/06/skeptics-rule-online-polls/comment-page-2/#comment-335078

GLOBAL WARMING IS THE BIGGEST FRAUD IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD AND ANYONE WHO PROMOTES IT IS GUILY OF FRAUD AND MUST BE PROSECUTED AND JAILED (AND TATOOED !) !!!!!!!!

Anonymous said...

Poll shows most Australians are against carbon DIOXIDE (plant food) tax

http://www.skynews.com.au/national/article.aspx?id=621774&vId=2461070&cId=National

Anonymous said...

Results from an online poll conducted by ninemsn:-

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/previousvote/

Do you support the carbon tax?
NO: 131692 (83%)
yes: 27113 (17%)

global warming is the biggest FRAUD in the history of civilization!!

Australians will not tolerate being taxed back to the stone age based on a FRAUD!!

If this despot federal government persists with this BS there will be massive civil unrest all around Australia !!!!!!!

Anonymous said...

Poll: Do you want your federal M.P. to vote in favour of a carbon (DIOXIDE) tax ?

Results:-

yes 1.3% 274
NO 98.7% 21,091

http://www.2gb.com/index.php?option=com_homepage&id=1&Itemid=44