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
Mike @13:22:45
“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?”
Mike, the UK ruling elite have gone insane. Really. The government, incredibly unpopular and desperately broke, is trying to “lead the world” in dragging the country down to King Canute levels of energy use. Even the Conservative Leader of the Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition, David Cameron, has a windmill on his house. Remember that Prince Charles is a believer, as is the Guardian’s Moonbat.
The government has a minister of “Energy and Climate Change”. Goal: To shut down electricity production.
They’re all demented over there. The government’s policy on global warming has been handed over to a committee for climate change, run by proifteers. It’s not in the control of Parliament.
The scammers have taken over while the deluded in Parliament are bamboozled by the criminally insane.
EUreferendum.com is a good web site to follow some of this, as well as climateresistance.com. Both explore the politics of it all.
Jim Turner (13:55:19) :
Re: Mike (13:22:45) :
“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?”
Mike, I believe that at least part of the driver for this is the total hash our government here has made of our future energy requirement.
Much power generation has used natural gas from under the North Sea, but this is now running out. They can’t go back to coal because of EU pollution directives, and they have reversed their anti-nuclear position too late to fill the gap. All they are left with is sourcing natural gas from unreliable overseas sources like Russia, covering half the country in wind turbines – and desperately trying to do everything they can to get consumers to reduce demand – hence (at least in part) the convenient ‘fig leaf’ of CO2 reduction.
On a positive note, they have made such a mess of the economy that we won’t be able to afford much power consumption anyway – hope it doesn’t get too cold!
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Plus, they’ve already defrauded the taxpayer out of billions of quid on this garbage. I assume that they have to be somewhat concerned about the ramifications of that. Spending more taxpayer money on keeping the hoax and taxation going, hoping that it will turn around, is the groupthink equivalent of that famous Englishman Nick Leeson.
Maybe they think that if they can keep the hoax going a bit longer, then they can claim that they cooled the planet with their wind turbines and saved us all.
The people in the UK I’ve talked to already also agree that this is an own goal. If they have to spend more taxpayer money to lie this hard, it shows the desperation of their position.
I think the British equivalent of “Jump the Shark” is “Beyond the Pale”.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8299079.stm
What has happened to global warming? Well this article on the BBC is not a conversion to the climate sceptic side, and I believe the BBC should NOT be climate sceptic, but this is a big step in the right direction in the BBC finally acknowledging that there is distinct changes in opinion and science over how much and the cause of the warming that has happened.
Will they finally go the one step further and actually state the fact that there is NO consensus within the scientific community as a whole or even the climate science community, as this article clearly implies? I hope that this is not a single one off article of the kind that the BBC quietly publishes just so that they can claim impartiality.
I hope this advert is the real tipping point of global warming propaganda.
Appalling!
This is a desperate attempt to cover up the truth before the Copenhagen meeting.
But, a glimmer of hope. BBC has finally opened the door a little bit with some climate change glasnost.
It will be interesting to watch the next coming weeks of the global warming farce.
Jim Turner (13:55:19) :
On a positive note, they have made such a mess of the economy that we won’t be able to afford much power consumption anyway – hope it doesn’t get too cold!
One of my new pastimes now I got rid of the TV is to go hunting for fallen wood with my van and chainsaw. I like a nice cheery fire of a winter evening. Watching it is far more restful than watching Govt climate claptrap on the box too.
Ken Hall (14:42:27) :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8299079.stm
What has happened to global warming? Well this article on the BBC is not a conversion to the climate sceptic side, and I believe the BBC should NOT be climate sceptic, but this is a big step in the right direction
Doesn’t quite have th bite of this 2002 BBC article though. 🙂
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1833902.stm
I have written a letter to the Times of London.
Kindest Regards
I’ve filled in an, on-line, complaints form with the Advertising Standards Authority here in the UK, a thing I would recommend all UK based citizens to do. Surprise, surprise, their on-line complaints form won’t submit; twice I’ve tried it. Are we overloading their server? I do hope so! I’ll try the phone tomorrow 020 7492 2222 or textphone 020 7242 8159 or fax 020 7242 3696.
Enjoy.
As I mentioned on another thread; there is no left-right divide on AGW in the UK – all the main parties are true believers. The chairman of the Environmental Audit Committee, the main parliamentary committee dealing with climate change, is a Tory, Tim Yeo, and David Cameron is keen to stress his green credentials at all times.
And let’s not forget the prime mover behind the current climate change rhetoric in the UK was Margaret Thatcher (going back to her ‘green speech’ in 1988).
Anyone expecting a change of direction under the incoming Tories is going to be very disappointed, unfortunately.
“Mike (13:22:45) :
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?”
A large part of the it is the present political situation. As part of their strategy to re-invent themselves and become electable again (still when Tony Blair was PM and before the financial crisis), the Tories with David Cameron as leader found it convenient to emphasize their “green credentials”. Labour’s own base (and the government bureaucracy in institutions like the BBC, besides the Met office, etc) was inclined to environmentalism in any case. Whatever Gordon Brown’s personal views on the subject may be (I’d be surprised if he turned out to be a “true believer”), he’s so weak politically now that he can’t afford to be controversial on that issue even if he wanted to. He may even be giving a free rein to those in the Department of Energy and Climate Change (created by him one year ago) in order to maintain the support of the alarmist crowd.
As for the Tories, they’re so anxious not to damage their likely victory next year that the only “dissent” (at least with a high profile) they have had regarding this topic has come from Nigel Lawson, Thatcher’s Chancellor of the Exchequer and now pretty much out of active politics except as a member of the House of Lords.
This debate, in 2008, between Lord Lawson and the Tory policy chief, Oliver Letwin, illustrates the mindset in the Tory leadership: http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/node/134/full
It’s the legacy of Mr Blair: fascism-lite.
From that BBC article:
“Professor Latif is based at the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences at Kiel University in Germany and is one of the world’s top climate modellers.
But he makes it clear that he has not become a sceptic; he believes that this cooling will be temporary, before the overwhelming force of man-made global warming reasserts itself.”
So when it is cooling it’s natural but when it is warming it’s man-made!!!??? [snip]?
The University Of Calgary is advertising its ISEEE department in the Globe and Mail. Intrigued, I checked their site iseee.ca and wondered about the level of science and found out that their next speaker is “Ed Struzik, an award-winning journalist who has worked extensively in the North, will speak on climate change in the Arctic as part of Arctic Change, a speaker series hosted by the Arctic Institute of North America.”
Yes University of Calgary cannot even find a climatologist to speak about arctic climate!
nanny_govt_sucks
your LOL! “40% of the CO2 comes from everyday things like keeping houses warm and driving cars”
So the “solution” which will bring a “happy ending” I suppose is to freeze your children in your home at night and refuse to drive them to school, or to the doctor.
Worse than that. 80% cuts are the target, for many groups, and governments.
Perhaps this would have been more honest for the ad:
40% of the CO2 comes from everyday things like keeping houses warm and driving cars. So, no heat or lights for your house, no video games or music, and absolutely no driving. The other 40% will have to come from cuts in food production and manufacturing jobs.
Meanwhile in America . . .
A kid watching the NASA moon bombing video reports –
“It was cool seeing actual pictures of the moon live,” said 10-year-old Jackson Bridges, but he added: “I wanted to see the debris flying out. It was still interesting to watch, but it was less interesting without the flying debris.”
What is so shocking is not the lies, the emotive images or the mental abuse of children, it is the fact that this execrable propaganda was government sanctioned. This is the type of filth one might expect from activist groups, not a democratic government. It raises the question of why the UK bothered to resist the Nazis or the Soviet Union.
The good news is this story is going to have a very, very unhappy ending for those in the massive AGW hoax. Despite the attempts of the UK government and others, we do not live in George Orwells’ 1984. We live in the age of micro media and the internet. The evidence for the corruption of science and the names of those involved are recorded for all time. Imagine what fun it will be playing this ad back in 10 years time to those who would rather we forget their crimes. I for one will never forgive and never forget.
There is a British govt department behind the rationale for this advert that is known as Defra
Here is Defras ‘communication strategy scoping report’ which directly led to Futerras “new rules of the game” (Futerra is a very high powered environmental PR Agency)
http://www.defra.gov.uk/evidence/social/behaviour/documents/behaviours-1206-scoping.pdf
extracts;
“This work has contributed to a shared understanding of the vision for environmental behaviour to underpin ‘one planet living’
“ as part of our mapping of Defras work we drew up an initial set of ‘desired’ behaviours”.
This scoping report was the original basis for the advert on itv through implementing Futerras ‘new rules of the game’
http://www.futerra.co.uk/downloads/NewRules:NewGame.pdf
These are their directors:
http://www.futerra.co.uk/about_us/directors
Some of their clients:
http://www.futerra.co.uk/clients/
which includes the BBC;
Extract from Futerra web site:
‘Various BBC teams have enjoyed training sessions on communicating sustainable development. Participants have ranged from producers for EastEnders ( a polular soap) to researchers on the CBeebies channel.’ (The latter a childrens channel)
Part of Defra metamorposed into;
http://www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/about/about.aspx
In oct 2008 and became The ‘dept of energy and climate change’
The Four principals are Ed Miliband Lord Hunt Joan Ruddock David Kidney
Joan Ruddock’s work focuses largely on how ‘we can change behaviour across UK society and reach an ambitious global agreement to reduce our carbon emissions in a fair and effective way’.
Joan needs no introduction to British readers
http://www.joanruddock.org.uk/index.php?id=13
for years she was chair of CND (Campaign for Nuclear disarmament) Eventually moved to Defra and ended up in this new dept.
Ed Miliband is a senior labour Govt figure. His father was Ralph Miliband, the Marxist political theorist, one of the most influential left-wingers of his generation. Eds girl friend is an environmental lawyer
From here;
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/article4449710.ece
Britain likes to think of itself as a leader in climate action but the EU only got on board in 2005 with this matter;
http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:eGPj89Zrb2EJ:ecologic.eu/download/zeitschriftenartikel/meyer-ohlendorf/g8_impact_on_international_climate_change_negotiations.pdf+tony+blair+ad+hoc+working+group+for+annex+first+session&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk
or as a pdf
http://ecologic.eu/download/zeitschriftenartikel/meyer-ohlendorf/g8_impact_on_international_climate_change_negotiations.pdf
Extract:
“The UK Prime Minister Tony Blair defined climate change as “probably, long-term the single most important issue we face as a global community” and made climate change one of his priority topics during the UK’s G8 Presidency, along with Africa. Climate change was also made a priority for the
UK’s EU Presidency (1 July 2005 – 31 December 2005). In a keynote speech on climate change, Tony Blair set out three ambitious targets for the UK’s G8 Presidency in 2005:
•To secure an agreement as to the basic science on climate change and the threat it poses, to provide the foundation for further action
•To reach agreement on a process to speed up the science, technology and other measuresnecessary to meet the threat
•To engage countries outside the G8 who have growing energy needs, like China and India”
The following year was the first meeting of the ‘ad hoc group’ to set up integrated action betwen the EU and the IPCC working groups. Both the EU and the UN are following Agenda 21. In the case of climate change that relates to the IPCC whose findings are endorsed by those countries following the agenda and who therefore subsequently have a legal obligation to implement that agenda. This includes teaching propaganda to our school children
Agenda 21 is clearly linked to the AD Hoc working group. The group has five chairs of whom 4 are green activists. Several of them have openly written of the need for a new world governance. The SAGE21 education agenda from the UN clearly sets out to influence schools.
The Agenda 21 aims has been endorsed at Govt level, and various councils and govt bodies have been instructed to follow this agenda.
Below is the first session of the AD Hoc group in 2006
http://unfccc.int/files/meetings/cop_11/application/pdf/cmp1_00_consideration_of_commitments_under_3.9.pdf
Good resumee of events below;
http://www.iisd.ca/vol12/enb12357e.html
This is minutes and action plan of latest meeting in April 2009
http://unfccc.int/meetings/items/4381.php
This is the overall aims of Agenda 21.
http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/agenda21/
Extract
Internationally Agreed Development Goals & Climate Change;
Internationally agreed frameworks and goals have set an agenda for integrating climate change and sustainable development. Agenda 21, which addresses climate change under its Chapter 9 (Protection of the atmosphere), recognizes that activities that may be undertaken in pursuit of the objectives defined therein should be coordinated with social and economic development in an integrated manner, with a view to avoiding adverse impacts on the latter, taking into full account the legitimate priority needs of developing countries for the achievement of sustained economic growth and the eradication of poverty.’
Both Agenda 21 and the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation (JPOI) assert that the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is the key instrument for addressing climate change. The Kyoto Protocol, which entered into force on 16 February 2005, sets binding emission reductions targets for industrialized countries for the first commitment period 2008-2012.
The science behind the IPCC is shaky at best and is intended as the means to persuade the populace to follow broader social objectives in a ‘one world’ scenario.
The UK government is attempting to implement social engineering on a grand scale in the Uk and in the EU, obviously believing George Orwells 1984 is a handbook for action, not a work of fiction.
Tonyb
Remember WMDs in Iraq and the secret service reports given to the Bush administration. The reports were less certain about actual posession but the politicians used spin to create certainty and we got a war with no WMDs.
The Met Office and Nature just don’t understand politicians. Politics is about power.
Mike (13:22:45)
Global carbon trading, increased taxes, utility bills and the fact that London’s financial centre has the ambition to be the world centre for carbon trade. Banks are mainly the ones calling for these measures – they can only be made acceptable via the media.
I just submitted a complaint to the ASA. If you can do it, then you should.
I couldn’t believe they’d put this load of ‘pony’ on the box tonight, I wanted to scream & tear my hair out (before I remembered I have none). This is typical of the brainwashing rubbish the media feeds us daily in the UK, apart from the occasional commentator such as Christopher Booker. My reply on being asked my opinion on the ad was 8 letters beginning with b & ending with s. I have to agree with the earlier comment by a jones, unfortunately our parliament is full of acolytes to the new religion.
This TV spot from Action on CO2 cannot be described: this is incitation to generational culling. They really need the boomers nest egg now not in 30 years. They aim at brainwashing the kids and grand kids to do the job for them. These people are dangerous and ruthless.
Regardless of folks opinions, unfortunately this kind of crap is effective. The question is not whether any number of bloggers, newsies, etc. debunk it, ridicule it and so forth. The question is: What is being done in real terms to effectively counter it? It seems to me that the sceptic community has been on the defensive since day one, and no battle has ever been won thru purely defensive tactics. You/we are allowing the alarmists to set the agenda. If it continues, there is no doubt they will win. At this point in the process scientific “truth” is irrelevant.
My apologies; I should have been agreeing with SJones. although A jones has got it right.But would they listen?