Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 03/14/2010 7:02:06 AM PDT by ricks_place
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were not supported by solid science and has told the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) that they should not be published again.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.
The rulings will be an embarrassment for Miliband, who has tried to portray his policies as firmly science-based. He had commissioned two posters, four press advertisements and a short film for television and cinema, which started appearing in October last year in the run-up to the Copenhagen climate talks.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
Banning their lying ads is one thing.
I want prosecutions and serious, punitive jail time.
I want someone to think very hard before they try to perpetrate a hoax like global warming ever, again.
hmmmmmmmm...smacks of censorship.
super lol. More egg on the face for the hysterics feeding at the public trough
My God...you mean somewhere in the UK common sense exists??
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