Essay by Eric Worrall
First published JoNova; Green Party representatives are determined to track down who is subverting public trust in climate science and renewable energy.
GREENS ESTABLISH INQUIRY INTO INFORMATION INTEGRITY ON CLIMATE CHANGE
2025-07-30
Organisations that campaign using disinformation to undermine climate action will come under scrutiny in a new parliamentary inquiry established by the Greens.
The UN has recently identified coordinated disinformation campaigns are hindering global progress on climate change by eroding public trust in climate science and influencing political outcomes.
How prevalent the propagation of disinformation is in Australia, where it comes from, and who is behind it, will be some of the key areas of inquiry for the committee.
The terms of reference for the Select Committee on Information Integrity on Climate Change and Energy can be found here.
Quotes attributable to Committee Chair, Greens Senator Peter Whish-Wilson:
“Aggressive and coordinated disinformation campaigns are increasingly spreading false information designed to deliberately mislead and influence public opinion on climate change.
“As the dangers of climate change intensify, the need for reliable and accurate information on the climate crisis and the Australian parliament’s response to it has never been more crucial.
“For decades, vested interests have been waging a global war of disinformation against the clean energy transition, including environmental and climate legislation, and these vested interests have recently achieved significant political success in nations such as the US.
“In the last parliament, evidence was provided to the Senate Inquiry into offshore wind industry that strategies such as establishing fake community groups – otherwise known as astroturfing – were being used in Australia to spread lies about renewable energy.**
“It’s critical that parliament continues this work and now examines these interests for what they are and who they serve.”
**This inquiry will act on Recommendation 4 from the Senate Inquiry into offshore wind industry: The committee recommends the Australian Government and DCCEEW proactively ensure that foreign actors, spam engagement, and misinformation and disinformation do not overpower local community voices from being heard in local public debate.
Read more: https://greens.org.au/news/media-release/greens-establish-inquiry-information-integrity-climate-change
So awesome, do I finally get a summons from a government committee? Will the greens track down all that dark money I’m supposed to have received?
Of course, it would be a lot easier to convince Australians of the benefits of renewable energy if the renewable energy actually worked.
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Some Protestants and some atheists have long told lies about the Spanish Inquisition because it suited their anti-Catholic purposes. I do not know for sure what the painting shows but I’d be prepared to wager that it is supposed to illustrate the Spanish Inquisition. Now if people are willing to push climate myths they soon get short shrift on WUWT (rightly so) but it seems to be okay to push anti-Catholic myths. What are the myths? One of them is that, as a matter of course, the Spanish Inquisition used torture. The reality is that people in Spain accused of crimes much preferred to be tried in an Inquisition court because they knew that the Inquisition had much more strict procedures for finding anybody guilty.
And your objective evidence to support your absurd claim that there was no use of torture as part of the Spanish Inquisition is . . .?
In direct falsification of your assertion, there is this from https://www.history.com/articles/inquisition (my bold emphasis added):
“Beginning in the 12th century and continuing for hundreds of years, the Inquisition is infamous for the severity of its tortures and its persecution of Jews and Muslims. Its worst manifestation was in Spain, where the Spanish Inquisition was a dominant force for more than 200 years, resulting in some 32,000 executions.“
Your post makes it seems as if you have first-hand knowledge of events during the Spanish Inquisition . . . good luck continuing with that. /sarc