UK Govt climate change ads banned

The Daily Mail reports:

Two advertisements which use nursery rhymes to warn of the dangers of climate change have been banned for exaggerating the threat.

Commissioned by Energy Secretary Ed Miliband, the adverts are based on children's poems Jack and Jill and Rub-A-Dub-Dub and assert that climate change will cause flooding and drought.

The Standards Agency (ASA) ruled the adverts – which attracted 939 complaints – made exaggerated claims which went beyond mainstream scientific consensus.

The proponents of man-made global warming are basically their own worst enemies. If they didn't feel the need to over-state the position and scare-monger, then there wouldn't be such a backlash against them.

The news that the Government's own advertisements were so unbalanced, as to be banned, will just drive thousands more people towards the view that it is all a crock of shit – even if it is not.

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