{"id":335208,"date":"2010-02-18T02:51:35","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T07:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=5180"},"modified":"2010-02-18T02:51:35","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T07:51:35","slug":"ministers-lavished-9m-on-climate-change-stunts-but-public-opinion-is-left-cold-by-global-warming-propaganda-by-steve-doughty-daily-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/335208","title":{"rendered":"Ministers lavished \u00a39m on climate change stunts&#8230; but public opinion is left cold by global warming &#8216;propaganda&#8217; by Steve Doughty, Daily Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Article Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?tid=333\" title=\"click to view more articles tagged &quot;CO2 Propaganda&quot;\">CO2 Propaganda<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"320\" class=\"bbcode_img_left\" src=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/attachments\/ftp\/AGW%20Stunt.jpg\" alt=\"Image Attachment\" \/>A disastrous series of failed climate change publicity stunts cost taxpayers \u00a3 9million, it emerged yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The projects paid for by the Government\u2019s Climate Challenge Fund did next to nothing to change public opinion, a Whitehall report found. <\/p>\n<p>It said the initiatives were almost entirely preaching to the converted and that trying to drum up interest through sensationalism only put people off.<\/p>\n<p>Schemes included a \u00a340,000 DVD in which schoolchildren explained that in ten years everyone will have to wear sunglasses all the time, because the sun will be shining more. <\/p>\n<p>A tent set up in shopping centres and labelled an \u2018experiential climate dome\u2019 was subsidised by Whitehall to the tune of nearly \u00a3400,000; a computer game cost \u00a347 every time it was played; and a series of \u2018 challenging pub quizzes\u2019 about climate change cost more than \u00a385,000. <\/p>\n<p>Large grants went to councils, schools and youth groups for \u2018 attitude modification\u2019 programmes and to assure the public that man-made global warming is an established scientific fact. <\/p>\n<p>And \u00a3200,000 went to Oxford University to \u2018take climate change into the community\u2019.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSource: dailymail.co.uk<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=5180\">Read in full with comments \u00bb<\/a>  &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/wwcxxQJDHpwjBdkeXVAcCwOA7qE\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/wwcxxQJDHpwjBdkeXVAcCwOA7qE\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/wwcxxQJDHpwjBdkeXVAcCwOA7qE\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/wwcxxQJDHpwjBdkeXVAcCwOA7qE\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/ClimaterealistsNewsBlog\/~4\/ZrM_S5djlp4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article Tags: CO2 Propaganda A disastrous series of failed climate change publicity stunts cost taxpayers \u00a3 9million, it emerged yesterday. The projects paid for by the Government\u2019s Climate Challenge Fund did next to nothing to change public opinion, a Whitehall report found. It said the initiatives were almost entirely preaching to the converted and that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}