Video: Ministers target climate change doubters in prime-time TV advert
October 9th, 2009
(Times) – Climate change sceptics are to be targeted in a hard-hitting government advertising campaign that will be the first to state unequivocally that Man is causing global warming and endangering life on Earth.
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The £6 million campaign, which begins tonight in the prime ITV1 slot during Coronation Street, is a direct response to government research showing that more than half the population think that climate change will have no effect on them.
Ministers sanctioned the campaign because of concern that scepticism about climate change was making it harder to introduce carbon-reducing policies such as higher energy bills.
The advertisement attempts to make adults feel guilty about their legacy to their children. It features a father telling his daughter a bedtime story of “a very very strange” world with “horrible consequences” for today’s children.
The storybook shows a British town deep under water, with people and animals drowning.
Carbon dioxide is depicted as rising in clouds of black soot from cars and homes, including from a woman’s hairdryer. The soot gathers into a jagged-toothed monster menacing the town.
The daughter asks her father if the story has a happy ending and a voiceover cuts in, saying: “It’s up to us how the story ends” and directs viewers to the Government’s Act on CO2 website.
The Department of Energy and Climate Change publishes research today showing that 52 per cent of people think climate change will not significantly affect them. Only 33 per cent think that it will and 15 per cent do not know.
Fourteen per cent of people think that climate change will have no effect on Britain, even in their grandchildren’s lifetime. Twenty-six per cent said they could think of no action they could take that would help to reduce climate change.
When asked how they would react if they knew climate change were going to have a serious effect on their children’s lives, 74 per cent said that they would be willing to change their lifestyle. Fifteen per cent said that they would not make any changes.
The Met Office has predicted that the 2003 heatwave, which resulted in 2,000 premature deaths in Britain, could happen every other year from the 2040s.
Joan Ruddock, the Energy and Climate Change Minister, said: “The survey results show that people don’t realise that climate change is already under way and could have severe consequences. With over 40 per cent of the UK’s C02 emissions a result of personal choices, there is huge potential for individual behaviour change to lower emissions.”
But 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.”
Source: Times Online Co UK
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October 9th, 2009 at 11:37 pm
Contraceptive$ can reduce impact of climate change $ay$ Lancet???
The Lancet medical journal also criticised non-government organisations (NGOs) for ”working in silos” and avoiding the varied approach needed to change social attitudes.
A $tudy soon to be published by the World Health Organisation (WHO) showed that 37 of the least developed countries appreciated the link between population growth and climate change. However, only six of them identified family planning as part of their adaptation strategy.
Earlier this month, research by the London $chool of Economics said contraception is almost five times cheaper as a means of preventing climate change than conventional green technologies.
Telegraph Media Group Limited – 18 Sep 2009
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6203364/Contraceptives-can-reduce-impact-of-climate-change-says-Lancet.html
The above, and just about everything you’ve ever been told about Global Warming, is too far from the truth.
From Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” to news reports from the popular media (The Lancet-medical journal) outlets and even public classrooms, which in Chicken Little fashion are screaming – the sky is falling. But is it really?
The Great Global Warming Swindle – Produced by WAGTV
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzSzItt6h-s
Tony Gosling interviews Webster Tarply about claims of global warming and their political and historic significance.
Elitism & Depopulation lurking behind Climate Change Lies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNAn7ttlD0g
That’s what the UN, the IMF, the WORLD BANK and the big foundations, among others, have built throughout the last 60 years, as front institutions for monopoly banks, corporations, and the good old Fabian elite running it all.
Climate change is the ultimate pretext to get everyone under complete regulation and paying taxes through their ears, as established in UN Agenda 21.
Climate change bill: looting the economy for world empire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPcgBxhSmuE
Read the Edward J. Wegman report; it covers the following subject: Climate Change 2001.
Featured prominently in this “Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change” (IPCC) report, was the work of Dr. Michael Mann, Dr. Raymond Bradley, and Dr. Malcolm Hughes (Mann et al., 1998, 1999) [MBH98, MBH99] – Mann et al., were responsible for the controversial “hockey stick” graph.
Challenges to the way in which “principal components analysis” (PCA) was used, have arisen from McIntyre and McKitrick (2003, 2005a, 2005b) [MM03, MM05a, MM05b]. The challenges are based on rather subtle mathematical nuances. They found MBH98 and MBH99 to be somewhat obscure and incomplete, and the criticisms of MM03/05a/05b to be valid and compelling.
After MBH99, Stephen McIntyre and Ross McKitrick [MM03] published their critique of the 1998 paper, citing calculation errors, unjustified truncation or extrapolation of source data, obsolete data, geographical location errors and incorrect calculation of principal components.
They also claimed that using the MBH98 methodology and the Northern Hemisphere average temperature index, for the period 1400-1980 shows that temperatures in the 15th century exceeded those of the late 20th century. In particular, they claim that MBH98’s incorrect usage of PCA alone, resulted in the well-known “hockey stick” shape. http://climateaudit.org/pdf/others/07142006_Wegman_Report.pdf
More Than 650 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims.
A newly updated U.S. Senate Minority Report was released last week featuring the dissenting voices of over 650 international scientists. Many are current, and others were former UN IPCC scientists who now criticized the climate claims made by the UN’s IPCC and, former Vice President – Al Gore.
The report quotes Ivar Giaever, a Nobel Prize Winner for Physics, saying: “I am a skeptic…Global warming has become a new religion.”
UN IPCC Japanese Scientist Dr. Kiminori Itoh, an award-winning PhD environmental physical chemist said; warming fears are the “worst scientific scandal in the history …When people come to know what the truth is, they will feel deceived by science and scientists.”
See the full Senate Minority Report here:
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Files.View&FileStore_id=83947f5d-d84a-4a84-ad5d-6e2d71db52d9
CBC – Global Warming Doomsday Called off – 44 min – Apr 21, 2007 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3309910462407994295
The Cryosphere Today – Compare Daily Sea Ice
http://igloo.atmos.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/test/print.sh?fm=10&fd=31&fy=1995&sm=10&sd=31&sy=2008
Global Warming or Global Governance
This documentary showcases the interviews of climate scientists and biologists from numerous sources, who explain step by step, why Al Gore and the global warming alarmists are incorrect. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4860344067427439443
“I believe it is appropriate to have an ‘over-representation’ of the facts on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience.”
GORE AL – CLIMATE CHANGE ACTIVIST.
“Effective execution of AGENDA 21 will require a profound reorientation of all human society, unlike anything the world has ever experienced a major shift in the priorities of both governments and individuals and an unprecedented redeployment of human and financial resources. This shift will demand that a concern for the environmental consequences of every human action be integrated into individual and collective decision-making at every level.”
UNITED NATIONS (UN) AGENDA 21
“We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis…”
ROCKEFELLA DAVID – CLUB of ROME executive member.
“The common enemy of humanity is man. In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea; that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine, and the like, would fit the bill. All these dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy then, is humanity itself.”
CLUB of ROME – Premier think-tank consultants to the UNITED NATIONS.
“No matter if the science of global warming is all phony…climate change provides the greatest opportunity to bring about justice and equality in the world.”
STEWART CHRISTINE – Former MINISTER of the Environment (CANADA).
“Global Sustainability requires the deliberate quest of poverty, reduced resource consumption and set levels of mortality control.”
KING MAURICE – PROFESSOR.
“My three main goals would be to reduce human population to about 100 million worldwide, destroy the industrial infrastructure and see wilderness, with it’s full complement of species, returning throughout the world.”
FOREMAN DAVE – co-founder of Earth First!
“Human beings, as a species, have no more value than slugs.”
DAVIS JOHN – editor of Earth First! Journal.
“The Earth has cancer and the cancer is Man.”
CLUB of ROME – Mankind at the Turning Point.
“A cancer is an uncontrolled multiplication of cells; the population explosion is an uncontrolled multiplication of people. We must shift our efforts from the treatment of the symptoms to the cutting out of the cancer. The operation will demand many apparently brutal and heartless decisions.”
EHRLICH PAUL (PROFESSOR) – The Population Bomb.
“A reasonable estimate for an industrialized world society at the present North American material standard of living would be 1 billion. At the more frugal European standard of living, 2 to 3 billion would be possible.”
UNITED NATIONS (UN) – Global Biodiversity Assessment.
“A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.”
TURNER TED – Founder of CNN and major UNITED NATIONS donor.
“…the resultant ideal sustainable population is hence more than 500 million but less than one billion.”
CLUB of ROME – Goals for Mankind.
“One America burdens the earth much more than twenty Bangladeshes. This is a terrible thing to say. In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it’s just as bad not to say it.”
COUSTEAU JACQUES – UNESCO Courier.
“If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.”
PHILIP – PRINCE DUKE of EDINBURGH – Patron of the World Wildlife Fund
Demographic Winter & Demographic Bomb
When the great social experiments of the 1960’s were launched, and when concern over a “population bomb” loomed large, we did not have the social science and economic studies we have available to us today. So the world embarked unknowingly on a self-destructive course.
The population control movement includes organizations, governments and international bodies (like the United Nations), dedicated to lower birth rates. Their methods range from the voluntary to the coercive – including forced sterilization in Peru, and China’s one-child-per-family policy, which has included forced abortions. Over the course of decades, population controllers have persuaded the public, through fear and hysteria, that there are too many people in the world and drastic action must be taken to curb population growth. Their fallacies have been institutionalized and become the “standard wisdom” of Western elites. http://www.demographicwinter.com/index.html
“The science to which I pinned my faith is bankrupt, its counsels which should have established the millennium, led instead directly to the suicide of Europe. I believed them once. In their name I helped destroy the faith of millions of worshipers in the temples of a thousand creeds. And now they look at me and witness the great tragedy of an atheist who has lost the faith.” – George Bernard Shaw.
Information compiled and provided by Christopher-Peter: Maingot; without prejudice, malice aforethought, ill will, vexation, or frivolity.