The Climate Skeptics Party launch 4 television ads in Australia

If this sort of campaign is to take off in places other than Australia, somone has to provide the money. It might be interesting to find out who has stumped up the money for this campaign. I am not suggesting that it is anything nefarious. But maybe we could emulate the process in other places.

Telboy (06:56:11) :
“Good to see the truth in a climate story advert. We could do with some like it to counteract the pernicious “Act on co2″ rubbish we get in the UK”.
I fully concur! However there is not much chance of that happening in the UK now Lord “Mandy” Mandelson has been put in charge of the new “Ministry of Truth”, only this government calls it the Ministry of Information instead. With this particularly slippery character in such an influential position we can only expect more of the same or worse! It will be interesting to see how much “Truth” we’ll get from his department.
WAGTD!

Unfortunately, we live at a time when the general public, unlike the folk who inhabit this blog, have short attention spans, and require snappy sound bites.
That’s what makes these commercials brilliant, they tell ordinary folk they’ve been conned.
In the present political climate here in England, we’ve been conned for years by politicians who have been stealing huge sums from the public purse, and for so long, that when it was first mooted, we thought it beyond belief that Members of Parliament could just be common thieves.
In that sort of atmosphere (to coin a phrase), the British Public are now willing to believe anything about our politicians conning the public.
You won’t find these ads on UK TV though. Maybe Daniel Hannan could publicise them — now there’s a thought!

@Tom Birkert (07:51:18)
“Instead we get ads of a fictitious fairy story saying we’re to blame. I complained to the ASA, as did many others. As a Government body, I wonder what the outcome of their enquiry will be?!”
I complained too and got a letter confirming it was being investigated. But as the Chairman of the Advertising Standards Agency is Chris Smith, also Chairman of the Environment Agency and who has recently championed the idea of everyone in the UK having their own Carbon Ration Card, I wouldn’t build up your hopes too much.
Our Political leaders (all three parties) have colluded in stuffing the Boards of every conceivable QUANGO, Government Agency and even Charities with Greenie eco-fascists. They’ve even appointed some of the most egregious specimens as ‘Government Scientific Advisors’. So we all can guess what kind of ‘advice’ they will get.
And even if the Thames outside the Houses of Parliament were frozen over, as it regularly did during the Little Ice Age, would they reconsider?
No way! It would be “Global Warming – Worse than we thought!”

Scrap the 4th video.

The fourth ad, about Dr Miscolzi’s paper should never have been produced. On the one hand they are telling the public not to believe what they are being told, and then completely shoot themselves in the foot by saying Ok, here is the one paper that is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth – believe this paper.
This is a very big mistake and will turn off any of those who have been won over by the other 3 ads.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,662092,00.html#ref=nlint
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Perhaps the AAM/AGW/MMCC believers would like to sue these deniers of the orthodoxy through the Australian courts?
Then again perhaps not eh?

Icarus (10:01:26) :
Most folks here have seen charts beginning many thousands or hundreds of thousands of years ago, so we fully understand where temp has risen and fallen. It takes a lot of study to arrive at an understanding of what averages most likely were at places along the way. There’s a lot of overstated warming reported around the world.
This campaign merely points out that the current trends are not up, but down. And after you’ve read about 5000 documents, you may well expect, as many others here, that the unfolding downward oscillation has a few decades left to run.

Der understatement from Der Spiegel: The AGW Mirror and mea culpa gulpa and the “stagnation”.
“Perhaps we suggested too strongly in the past that the development will continue going up along a simple, straight line. In reality, phases of stagnation or even cooling are completely normal,” says Latif.
But, Goreacle says don’t worry, here is our AGW out-clause:
“Even though the temperature standstill probably has no effect on the long-term warming trend,”.
Wait! There’s more: “it does raise doubts about the predictive value of climate models, and it is also a political issue.”
And: “This has prompted many a climatologist to treat the temperature data in public with a sense of shame, thereby damaging their own credibility.”
And: guess who is “gloating” all over the ‘net?
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“Stagnating Temperatures
Climatologists Baffled by Global Warming Time-Out
Global warming appears to have stalled. Climatologists are puzzled as to why average global temperatures have stopped rising over the last 10 years. Some attribute the trend to a lack of sunspots, while others explain it through ocean currents.
At least the weather in Copenhagen is likely to be cooperating. The Danish Meteorological Institute predicts that temperatures in December, when the city will host the United Nations Climate Change Conference, will be one degree above the long-term average.
Otherwise, however, not much is happening with global warming at the moment. The Earth’s average temperatures have stopped climbing since the beginning of the millennium, and it even looks as though global warming could come to a standstill this year.
Ironically, climate change appears to have stalled in the run-up to the upcoming world summit in the Danish capital, where thousands of politicians, bureaucrats, scientists, business leaders and environmental activists plan to negotiate a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. Billions of euros are at stake in the negotiations.
Reached a Plateau
The planet’s temperature curve rose sharply for almost 30 years, as global temperatures increased by an average of 0.7 degrees Celsius (1.25 degrees Fahrenheit) from the 1970s to the late 1990s. “At present, however, the warming is taking a break,” confirms meteorologist Mojib Latif of the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences in the northern German city of Kiel. Latif, one of Germany’s best-known climatologists, says that the temperature curve has reached a plateau. “There can be no argument about that,” he says. “We have to face that fact.”
Even though the temperature standstill probably has no effect on the long-term warming trend, it does raise doubts about the predictive value of climate models, and it is also a political issue. For months, climate change skeptics have been gloating over the findings on their Internet forums. This has prompted many a climatologist to treat the temperature data in public with a sense of shame, thereby damaging their own credibility.
“It cannot be denied that this is one of the hottest issues in the scientific community,” says Jochem Marotzke, director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg. “We don’t really know why this stagnation is taking place at this point.””
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,662092,00.html

“Our Political leaders (all three [UK] parties) have colluded in stuffing the Boards of every conceivable QUANGO, Government Agency and even Charities with Greenie eco-fascists.”
UK voters should take hope from the fact that the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), which came second in terms of UK vote share in recent Euro elections, has a sound Energy and Environment policy. I served on the committee drawing up the policy.
http://www.ukip.org/content/ukip-policies/418-energy–environment-ukip-policy-2009
With the current turmoil in UK politics UKIP will, hopefully, have an influence on the composition of the next Parliament and may be able to have an effect on reversing climate policy.
Sorry for the political plug.