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Government rebuked over global warming nursery rhyme adverts
Telegraph UK ^ | 3/17/10 | Matthew Moore

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

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: globalwarming; indoctrination; junkscience; scams
Imagine that, truth in advertising that actually slaps down the left for once.

Now if we can just get a government agency in America to do such a thing.

1 posted on 03/17/2010 9:13:32 AM PDT by Tom Hawks
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To: Tom Hawks; Tunehead54; Clive; Little Bill; tubebender; marvlus; IrishCatholic; Carlucci; ...
 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

2 posted on 03/17/2010 9:27:05 AM PDT by steelyourfaith (Warmists as "traffic light" apocalyptics: "Greens too yellow to admit they're really Reds."-Monckton)
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To: Tom Hawks

Hickory dickory dock
Global warming is such a crock


3 posted on 03/17/2010 9:41:55 AM PDT by ElkGroveDan (Now can we forget about that old rum-runner Joe Kennedy and his progeny of philandering drunks?)
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To: Tom Hawks

Hickory dickory dock
Global warming is such a crock


4 posted on 03/17/2010 9:42:14 AM PDT by ElkGroveDan (Now can we forget about that old rum-runner Joe Kennedy and his progeny of philandering drunks?)
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To: steelyourfaith

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


5 posted on 03/17/2010 9:59:39 AM PDT by RockinRight (Obama Logic: Global Warming causes blizzards, and deficit spending balances budgets.)
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To: ElkGroveDan

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?


6 posted on 03/17/2010 9:59:49 AM PDT by RipSawyer (Trying to reason with a leftist is like trying to catch sunshine in a fish net at midnight.)
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To: RockinRight
Bravo !
7 posted on 03/17/2010 10:01:10 AM PDT by steelyourfaith (Warmists as "traffic light" apocalyptics: "Greens too yellow to admit they're really Reds."-Monckton)
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