Extract from Huffington Post
One Nation senator had his joke hijacked by opponents.
Fairfax Media
Senator Malcolm Roberts had his poll backfire.
One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts is the
parliament's biggest climate change sceptic, but when he attempted to
use a Twitter poll to heap scorn on the green energy sector, it
backfired spectacularly after opponents hijacked it.
Roberts is a former coal executive and mine manager, and a vocal critic of action on climate change. He has also been a project leader of the Galileo Movement, a climate sceptic group which aims "to expose misrepresentations pushing a price on carbon dioxide". In his maiden speech to
parliament, he called climate change a "scam", refutes scientific
modelling that global temperatures are rising and has even taken aim at
NASA, claiming that the space agency's climate data has "been corrupted".
He also received just 77 personal votes to his name at the 2016 election.
But in his short time in the Senate, Roberts has continually attacked and denied the idea of climate change, taking aim at clean energy and opposing environmental measures. On Twitter on Thursday, the senator posted a poll on Twitter, asking his followers what they think should be done with "$5 billion of taxpayer money currently used on green energy". He was clearly hoping for an overwhelming result against green energy. It did not go well for the senator.
But in his short time in the Senate, Roberts has continually attacked and denied the idea of climate change, taking aim at clean energy and opposing environmental measures. On Twitter on Thursday, the senator posted a poll on Twitter, asking his followers what they think should be done with "$5 billion of taxpayer money currently used on green energy". He was clearly hoping for an overwhelming result against green energy. It did not go well for the senator.
How should government spend $5 billion of taxpayer money currently used on green energy
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