UK Eco-Religionist Government Agency Has Ads Banned

People in the UK have had enough with global warming alarmism after having just emerged from one of the coldest winters in memory. When the Department of Energy and Climate Change (can you believe they have an agency like that??!) tried to create cutesey nursery rhyme ads that said everyone was going to die, a watchdog group objected and banned the advertisements.

From the Examiner here:

Scare tactic newspaper advertisements from Britain’s Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) have been banned by a government advertising watchdog agency. Two ads in a series which used child nursery rhymes to warn about the purported dangers of manmade climate change were found to have unsubstantiated claims in them.

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) reviewed the ads after receiving more than 900 complaints from British citizens – the most complaints it received on any ad last year.

The two offending ads were based on the nursery rhymes of ‘Jack and Jill’ and ‘Rub a Dub Dub’ and warned of the effects of extreme weather, a claim which has long been disproven. In its conclusion, the ASA said the ads failed to meet code based on a lack of substantiation, truthfulness and their environmental claims.

So even if eco-religion was indeed real, these ads were still just scare mongering stupidity. So the Brits are trying to take a stand against global warming idiocy. Now if they can rename their energy and climate change department to just “energy department.”