Th UK Government has lost all sense of realism and decency. As a father of two young children myself, I’d like to smack the person(s) responsible for this upside the head and say “what were you thinking!”.
Even normally pro AGW Nature calls it the Worst. Climate. Campaign. Ever. Watch this.
Link to transcript
Nature writes:
The UK government has decided to convince us all that climate change is real. To this end it is spending £6 million on a prime time advertising campaign featuring a father reading a bedtime story about the evil carbon dioxide monster created by grown ups which is making rabbits cry.
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In perhaps the worst advert for stopping climate change I’ve ever seen, the cringe worthy short has the father telling his child how scientists found that global warming “was being caused by too much CO2, and it was the children of the land who’d have to live with the horrible consequences”
In an article in the Register, Andrew Orlowski points out that even the UK Met office doesn’t go this far:
Met Office climate modeller Vicky Pope has said apocalyptic predictions are misleading – “distorting” the perception of climate change. She cited shock-horror press releases about recent Arctic ice melt, which she said could equally be explained by natural variation.
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Taxpayers are paying £6m so their children can be scared out of their wits. It’s not Halloween, but a new climate change TV advertising campaign that begins tonight, which features a young girl watching a dog drown.
See the new center of climate porn here:
http://actonco2.direct.gov.uk/actonco2/home.html
They do have a contact form. The question is: will they listen or just brand everyone who thinks maybe the campaign is “over the top” as paid shills of Exxon ?
http://actonco2.direct.gov.uk/actonco2/home/about-us/Contact-us.html
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This is nothing less than government-sponsored child abuse and indoctrination, a typical outgrowth of any fundamentalist religion. That even the zealots at Nature (a recognized center of climate alarmism) finds this campaign beyond the pale is telling.
Someone with good movie maker software should download this video, rework it and tell everyone how the evil government is trying to scare the shit out of kids to make them comply with the global governance agenda.
That poor dog drowned because that evil kid and her dad kept their house warm, end of story.
Brent in Calgary
Ecofascists are hard at work. Remember Chamberlin and appeasement did NOT work.
If you want to protect a free society then fight this outright FASCIST movement with all your might!
If you don’t take a stanmd now then perhaps your own children will one day be goosestepping in the street and marching off industry leaders & workes (CO2 Monsters) to concentration camps in order to turn there bodies into carbon that can be buried back in to the earth (hence saving the world from evil industrialists).
OMG! This is wretched.
It will probably get worse through the Copenhagen faux-anxiety-fest. Early onset of NH winter, record-low ice melt in Antarctica, quick refreeze in the Arctic, and still no dang photo-op hurricanes in the Atlantic.
What’s a committed Doomster to do?
Why would anyone be surprised at this? Typical ideological child abuse.
That’s it. I can’t bear the sight of a poor little crying bunny rabbit, sobbing because we destroyed the Earth.
I’m going to switch off the electricity and live in the da
Since they’re already scaring the hell of of kids, why not add “…and when naughty children watched TV, played video games, and used night lights.”
I told you carbon taxing the world is the linchpin of the ruling elite’s plan to control the entire planet. They will try anything and stop at nothing to make it so. You have no idea who you are dealing with and what they are capable of. Now you get to see it before your very eyes. So sad.
This sort of thing is not new. Governments have done it before.
Stalinist Russia, Nazi Germany, and China under Mao Zedong are three examples that come to mind.
Was this put out my a Ministry of Information (aka Propaganda)?
It is one thing to put out dodgy press releases to dupe the popular press into publishing rubbish. But it is quite another thing for the Government to start believing its own spin.
They will be burning books about real science next …
Time for a revolt.
A small Victory?
BBC
What happened to global warming?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8299079.stm
When I see propaganda like this, which is beyond the worst parody of specious fearmongering, I have to ask “Is this is a turning point?”.
At first it seemed to me that the producers of this are merely making a crass point about our future generations by talking in such blank childlike terms, but then it occurred to me that this is all they can intellectually manage to use as an argument, they really think that we are stupider than them. I think any child can see through this.
Over the pond, you guys are not bombarded with the Madhouse/loony-toon fruit cake spin of the EU/Nu-labour government insanities, that constitute so called ‘POLICY’, although, with Waxman/Marky, you are getting a flavour.
Bring on a cold winter in the northern hemisphere!!
Maybe this will finally cause people to say enough is enough . Stooping this low might well force folks to step back and see climate change hysteria for what it is .
Jim Cole writes ” quick refreeze in the Arctic”
I hate to disillusion you, but the Arctic has stopped it’s quick refreeze over the last week or so. I think we skeptics ought to stick to facts.
I can’t believe this one. I’ve already emailed my complaint to them. I think this one above all others deserves a complaint from every reader. I’m also going to complain to the advertising standards authority.
Just when you think that they cannot stoop any lower…..
maybe we can kill the rabbit and make the girl a fur muff so her father can turn the heat down. Two birds with one stone.
This just shows how lunatic our discredited government has become. The country is essentially bankrupt and yet £6m can be found to fund propaganda.
This is the logical outcome of allowing AIT and the religion of AGW into our schools.
Despair people, it will only get worse. The only way to counter it is to teach the truth to your own children.
The Met office vacillate between doom and apocalypse and “oh, maybe its not that bad really”. They are very confused and caught between a rock and a hard place. Not their fault: On the one hand they want to be accurate and objective. On the other they have to accept the current paradigm.
unbelievable! what will they do next?
OK. What is the deal with the UK? Why are they trash-talking about climate change? Can someone from the UK please repond? I mean….seriously what is going on?
From my experience of children, most of them watching this advert will want to know where they can get a Carbon Monster outfit for Halloween, and if they could get the Carbon Footprint boots that leave black sticky goo everywhere that would be just great.
Think how much CO2 would be saved from going into the atmosphere if dadies stopped reading their kids bedtime stories. Thats 10-15 minutes extra time with the lights on. We could save thousands of dogs and rabbits which by the way were reprted to be overpopulating because of the longer summers and shorter winters.