Posted on 03/17/2010 9:13:32 AM PDT by Tom Hawks
In definitely asserting that climate change would cause
flooding and drought the adverts went beyond
mainstream scientific consensus, the watchdog said.
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ruled that the adverts – which were based on the children's poems Jack and Jill and Rub-A-Dub-Dub – made exaggerated claims about the threat to Britain from global warming.
In definitely asserting that climate change would cause flooding and drought the adverts went beyond mainstream scientific consensus, the watchdog said.
It noted that predictions about the potential global impact of global warming made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) "involved uncertainties" that the adverts failed to reflect.
The two posters created on behalf of the Department of Energy and Climate Change juxtaposed adapted extracts from the nursery rhymes with prose warnings about the dangers of global warning.
One began: “Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water. There was none as extreme weather due to climate change had caused a drought.” Beneath was written: “Extreme weather conditions such as flooding, heat waves and storms will become more frequent and intense.”
The second advert read: "Rub a dub dub, three men in a tub — a necessary course of action due to flash flooding caused by climate change.” It was captioned: “Climate change is happening. Temperature and sea levels are rising. Extreme weather events such as storms, floods and heat waves will become more frequent and intense. If we carry on at this rate, life in 25 years could be very different.”
Upholding complaints from members of the public, the ASA said that in both instances the
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Now if we can just get a government agency in America to do such a thing.
Hickory dickory dock
Global warming is such a crock
Hickory dickory dock
Global warming is such a crock
There once was a man named Algore
Whose face often looked like a cyborg
He lied out his ass
And said “no more gas”
All the while being a foolish old bore
Little Miss Muffett
Sat on a tuffet
Eating her curds and whey
Along came a spider and
Sat down beside her and asked
Why is it snowing in May?
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