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[Nickbat]

Fortunately I don't watch Coronation Street so I'll miss the ad. break.

LONDON - The government is to launch a controversial £6m ad campaign aimed at global warming sceptics, in which a British town is shown submerged under water.

The campaign, created by AMV BBDO, will launch during Coronation Street on ITV1 this evening.

Given global warming is not accepted as scientific fact by a large and usually silent part of the scientific community fearful of a backlash, the campaign could provoke anger that the government is broadcasting political messages with taxpayer's money.

The creative is hard-hitting, and as such could also become controversial due to its alarmist tone.

It is designed to make adults feel guilty about the legacy they will leave their children and features a father telling his daughter a bedtime story of "a very very strange" world with "horrible consequences" for today's children.

http://www.brandrepublic.com/News/944372/Global-warming-down-says-6m-Government-ad-campaign/

I've been trying to warn you all. This is just the start.

 


And what about that "British town submerged under water?"

Look at the [size=14]FACTS[/size]:

Sheerness: Trend  0.54 feet in 100 years.
http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_global_station.shtml?stnid=170-101

North Shields: Trend: 0.62 feet in 100 years.
http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_global_station.shtml?stnid=170-053

But everyone knows sea levels are rising all over the globe.....oh yeah, try telling that to the Swedes:?

Stockholm: Trend: -1.29 feet in 100 years
http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_global_station.shtml?stnid=050-141


My blood is beginning to boil!

Hopefully, the public will stand up to this naked  propaganda. Bring on the lawsuits. They are telling lies.
 

[unlucky alf]

im with you nickbat, i wonder when an advert proving this is garbage will be shown? i wont hold my breath

[Nickbat]

It's causing a stir already:

Philip Stott, Emeritus Professor of Biogeography at the University of London and a critic of the Government’s plan to cut CO2, said the advert was an attempt to manipulate people with alarmist language and apocalyptic imagery. “It is straight out of Orwell’s 1984: an attempt to control with images of a perpetual war against something, in this case climate change.”

 

[Dishevelled Den]

My blood is beginning to boil!

Hopefully, the public will stand up to this naked  propaganda. Bring on the lawsuits. They are telling lies.
 

This will hardly lower the temperature then;



http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20091009/tuk-warning-of-steep-energy-price-rises-6323e80.html



and meet environmental targets.

missed renewable and carbon targets –

and climate change targets

....these excerpts taken from that report show the current thinking and give an early indication of how each and every one of us will have to find the money to meet the higher bills which will follow in the wake of these green initiatives - irrespective of the market cost of the energy we will use.

[Dishevelled Den]

It's causing a stir already:

Philip Stott, Emeritus Professor of Biogeography at the University of London and a critic of the Government’s plan to cut CO2, said the advert was an attempt to manipulate people with alarmist language and apocalyptic imagery. “It is straight out of Orwell’s 1984: an attempt to control with images of a perpetual war against something, in this case climate change.”

.....Aah the stock-in-trade of an old Establishment hack like me, nothing like a bit of drip,drip,drip to set the scene and await the inevitable opportunistic moment.


It's like the old days again 8-) 8-) - now where did I put that Model 59?

[gsdtrainer]

where is earnest,is it near jepordy where all those jobs are?

[STMO999]

Most folk put the kettle on during the adverts. So the governments plea for us to save energy will be met with a huge power surge the length and breadth of the country.

Delicious.

[Nickbat]

Couple of replies posted by commenters at the WUWT website (which means news of this poisonous ad has gone worldwide..)

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/10/09/uk-television-ad-for-action-on-co2-is-beyond-bad-taste/#more-11613

"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."

"The country is essentially bankrupt and yet £6m can be found to fund propaganda."

BUT, wait a minute, if you believe all the cr*p in the clip, surely this can't be true:

"It seems the debate about what is causing global warming is far from over. Indeed some would say its hotting up."

Some cherry-picked sceptic site? (as Optimist or Bannjaax would say  )

Why, no! The BBC, yes the BBC - today!!. Maybe someone has cottoned on to this "science is settled" fraud and wants to start backing towards the door.....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8299079.stm

 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

I have not seen this Nickbat......because I don't watch Coronation Street either............or any of the other soaps.............as they are badly acted.....'dangle berries' ...with piss poor plots.
However.............I hope that it paints a realistic picture of possible global warming.......In summary ..........I hope that it is objective ....rather than subjective.

[albitz]

Objectivity from Nu Liebore    I like that one,not many jokes on here make me laugh out loud but that one did

Is there somewhere on the ITV website where we can register lots of complaints about this ?

[Nickbat]

I have not seen this Nickbat......because I don't watch Coronation Street either............or any of the other soaps.............as they are badly acted.....'dangle berries' ...with piss poor plots.
However.............I hope that it paints a realistic picture of possible global warming.......In summary ..........I hope that it is objective ....rather than subjective.

Objective? 

Nah. Just child abuse. 

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXdUW3-7Qyk&feature=player_embedded[/media]

[Nickbat]

Objectivity from Nu Liebore    I like that one,not many jokes on here make me laugh out loud but that one did

Is there somewhere on the ITV website where we can register lots of complaints about this ?

Only the Advertising Standards Authority:

http://www.asa.org.uk/asa/how_to_complain/complaints_form
 

[albitz]

That will do nicely.

[Vamps]

I have not seen this Nickbat......because I don't watch Coronation Street either............or any of the other soaps.............as they are badly acted.....'dangle berries' ...with piss poor plots.
However.............I hope that it paints a realistic picture of possible global warming.......In summary ..........I hope that it is objective ....rather than subjective.

Objective? 

Nah. Just child abuse. 

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXdUW3-7Qyk&feature=player_embedded[/media]

That's on the telly. ....   that is terrible, is that the one between the street, I was 'power napping' so must have missed it.  I noticed my daughter had drawn a 'don't waste water' poster at school..... it never stops raining.
Somewhere all this brainwashing has to stop.....

[Nickbat]

As someone pointed out, this is too close to Der Giftpilz for comfort.

http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/thumb.htm