... in this case though, a sniff of common sense has taken hold:
TWO government advertisements that use nursery rhymes to warn people of the dangers of climate change have been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for exaggerating the potential harm.The adverts, commissioned by Ed Miliband, the energy secretary, used the rhymes to suggest that Britain faces an inevitable increase in storms, floods and heat waves unless greenhouse gas emissions are brought under control.
The ASA has ruled that the claims made in the newspaper adverts were not supported by solid science and has told the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) that they should not be published again.
It has also referred a television commercial to the broadcast regulator, Ofcom, for potentially breaching a prohibition on political advertising.
Too bad ASA advertising regulations don't apply to BBC TV or radio programming.
When you have created a governmental Department of Energy and Climate Change you've pretty well announced that you drank the Kool Aid and are well underway on the journey over the cliff.
"When you have created a governmental Department of Energy and Climate Change you've pretty well announced that you drank the Kool Aid and are well underway on the journey over the cliff."
I have no problem with that, as ridiculous as it seems. A party in power can create whatever ministries and departments it wants.
But these ministries and departments should never assume they will have a life independent of the ballot and should be able to be swept away with the policies that created them if an opposing party takes power.
Unfortunately this government type of pap, is par for the course in the country of my birth. We'll try a valiant rear guard action via Lords Pearson, Monckton, UKIP and the EDL et al, but I fear that's all it will be, a rear guard action.
Enough said, see the writing on the wall we are a few years down the road from you, see whats happened and learn.
MSM shills for the AGW Fraud.
Down with AGW/IPCC/UN Fraud.
“More than 40 researchers funded by the foundation have also worked on assessment reports published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.”
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“Demise of Canadian research will impact global climate initiatives”
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Environment/2010/03/14/13225191-cp.html
http://www.bluelikeyou.com/2010/03/14/you-should-feel-guilty-about-that-soft-toilet-tissue/#comment-77165
It is unbelievable how gullible many politicians and bureaucrats have become. The fraudsters should have a heyday with these people when they become seniors.
On the other hand, the correct descriptor might be diabolical, to describe the attempts of these people to squeeze more taxes and take more control of citizen's lives.
A more appropriate fairy tail would have been the one about chicken little and the sky is falling.
Hickory Dickory Dock
AGW proven to be a crock
Three blind mice - see how Jones et al run.
Let's hope that soon the farmer's wife electorate will turn to cut off their "tales". Hmm. That might make a nice ad.
A nursery rime for Dr. Phil Jones:
I do not like thee Dr. Fell (Phil)
The reason why I can not tell
But this I know and know full well
I do not like thee Dr. Fell (Phil)
I have changed from a sceptic and become a "denier" of AGW. Clearly it is about money and power rather than science. But I warn all of SDA readers, this battle is far from over. The name calling continues on the internet and the usual arrogant excusers continue to use the usual arrogant excuses to defend it in the MSM.
Miliband said: “On the one issue where the ASA did not find in our favour, around one word in our print advertising, the science tells us that it is more than 90% likely that there will be more extreme weather events if we don’t act.”
I demand a vote count... that paragraph has no defined scientific proposition.. It is meaningless drivel.... Counting worthless paper opinion by gangster Robo publishing does not make a consensus. Professional Organizations have VOTES
The F**** planet has been cooling for 4.5 Billion Years, and it will continue cooling for the next 4.5 B years; at which time it will be a block of Ice... The wild oscillations, between varying energy level dissipation, are diminishing
IMO AGW is Evil corrupt Science
Interesting delineation of Anthropogenic climate change (ACC) science. If ad watchdoga say advertising the core beliefs of ACC amount to false advertising (AKA fraud), this lends weight to the old maxim that says "if government were a product, its makers would be sued for fraud and jailed for antitrust.