The reheated plans to scrap renewable schemes, boost fossil fuels and revive nuclear are not based on fact but ideologyGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastGive the Coalition points for chutzpah, if nothing else. In a press release on Wednesday, first given to the Australian for a not exactly hard-won ‘exclusive’, it declared ‘Australians need cheaper power, not more ideology’.You don’t have to get far beyond that headline to find its position comes from a worldview that is ideology on steroids. That worldview says climate change is not real, or at least not a real concern, and Australia should abolish nearly all plans to respond to or prepare the economy – and people’s lives – for the changes under way. Continue reading…