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taken from a recent publication you may have missed.
The UK Government has been ordered to drop two adverts based on nursery rhymes which exaggerated the risks of so-called 'global warming'.
Jack and Jill and Rub a Dub Dub had been rewritten to warn children about the inevitability of flooding and droughts caused by 'man made climate change'. But the advertising standards agency said they amounted to scaremongering and did not reflect the growing scepticism over claims that the planet is heating up.
One of the ads, from the Department of Energy, which has now tacked 'and climate change' on to it's title, read :
'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'
Ok, so it doesn't scan and isin't true. But what do you expect when you ask civil servants to write nursery rhymes?
Just in case the message hadn't got through , they appended the following warning , "Extreme weather conditions such as flooding, heat waves and storms will become more frequent and intense"
Despite the fact that the world has actually got cooler this century, mounting evidence that 'climate change' is a myth, and the revelation that alleged 'experts' in the field have been fiddling the figures to fit their theories, the hysteria goes on.
Using taxpayers money to pay for indoctrination of very young children is just the latest arrow in the warmists quiver of deception.
It also got me thinking what other nursery rhymes could be updated...
The Grand Old Duke of York
he had 10,000 men
"but he told the Chilcot Inquiry he would have had 20,000 if Gordon Brown hadn't cut defence spending"
The UK Government has been ordered to drop two adverts based on nursery rhymes which exaggerated the risks of so-called 'global warming'.
Jack and Jill and Rub a Dub Dub had been rewritten to warn children about the inevitability of flooding and droughts caused by 'man made climate change'. But the advertising standards agency said they amounted to scaremongering and did not reflect the growing scepticism over claims that the planet is heating up.
One of the ads, from the Department of Energy, which has now tacked 'and climate change' on to it's title, read :
'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'
Ok, so it doesn't scan and isin't true. But what do you expect when you ask civil servants to write nursery rhymes?
Just in case the message hadn't got through , they appended the following warning , "Extreme weather conditions such as flooding, heat waves and storms will become more frequent and intense"
Despite the fact that the world has actually got cooler this century, mounting evidence that 'climate change' is a myth, and the revelation that alleged 'experts' in the field have been fiddling the figures to fit their theories, the hysteria goes on.
Using taxpayers money to pay for indoctrination of very young children is just the latest arrow in the warmists quiver of deception.
It also got me thinking what other nursery rhymes could be updated...
The Grand Old Duke of York
he had 10,000 men
"but he told the Chilcot Inquiry he would have had 20,000 if Gordon Brown hadn't cut defence spending"