{"id":427863,"date":"2010-03-15T00:01:19","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T04:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/papundits.wordpress.com\/?p=32562"},"modified":"2010-03-15T00:01:19","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T04:01:19","slug":"labour-ads-banned-for-lying-about-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/427863","title":{"rendered":"Labour Ads Banned For Lying About Warming"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>By Andrew Bolt\"\"<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

If only our own watchdogs were as scrupulous:<\/p>\n

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TWO government advertisements that use nursery rhymes to warn people of the dangers of climate change have been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for exaggerating the potential harm<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n

The adverts, commissioned by Ed Miliband, the energy secretary, used the rhymes to suggest that Britain faces an inevitable increase in storms, floods and heat waves unless greenhouse gas emissions are brought under control. <\/em><\/p>\n

The ASA has ruled that the claims made in the newspaper adverts were not supported by solid science … <\/em><\/p>\n

They attracted 939 complaints \u2014 more than the ASA received for any advertisement last year. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

But back here in Australia, any old rubbish gets through. This is from Australian television from the last general election campaign:<\/p>\n

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Andrew Bolt<\/em><\/a> is a journalist and columnist writing for <\/em>The Herald Sun<\/em><\/a> in Melbourne Victoria Australia.<\/em><\/p>\n

Read more excellent articles from Andrew Bolt\u2019s Blog<\/a><\/p>\n

Filed under: Australia<\/a>, Climate Alarmists<\/a>, Climate Change<\/a>, Environment<\/a>, Environmental activists<\/a>, Fanatics<\/a>, Fear-mongering<\/a>, Global Warming<\/a>, Great Britain<\/a>, Media Mind Manipulators<\/a>, Muddled Media<\/a>, Politics<\/a>, Propaganda<\/a>, Pseudo-Journalism<\/a>, U.K.<\/a> Tagged: Andrew Bolt<\/a>, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd<\/a>, Climate Change Advertisements<\/a>, Climate Change Religion<\/a>, Global Warming Alarmism<\/a>, Global Warming Hype<\/a>, Tony<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Andrew Bolt If only our own watchdogs were as scrupulous: TWO government advertisements that use nursery rhymes to warn people of the dangers of climate change have been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for exaggerating the potential harm. The adverts, commissioned by Ed Miliband, the energy secretary, used the rhymes to suggest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4200,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427863","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\/4200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}