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Climate change is all in the mind (apparently)

30 October 2009

Here's a turn up for the books. The tiny but perfectly formed New Party has lodged a complaint with the Advertising Standards Authority about the government's television campaign encouraging us to reduce our carbon footprints.
The party's spokesman, one Richard Vass, is on the record saying: "We need science, not scaremongering. After all, there is no proven link between CO2 and global warming... There is an underlying whiff of McCarthyism surrounding the whole carbon campaign that has prevented proper debate. We hope the ASA will agree with us that this sickening advert needs to be withdrawn."
Obviously the United Nations should cancel forthwith the climate change treaty negotiations scheduled for Copenhagen in December.
Richard knows best, right?

Tags: Climate Change, politics

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  1. I think he has a point. He is disputing the link between Co2 and climate change. He is not saying climate change isn't happening.

    Paul Benfield | 05 November 2009, 02:22 PM

  2. Absolutely, the UN should grow up and face the reality that we cannot - and never could - change the climate

    Jim Sloan | 05 November 2009, 02:52 PM

  3. I agree Jim. Perhaps Utility Week should consider its own viewpoint before slagging off the idea with no factual support to back it up.

    Paul Benfield | 05 November 2009, 03:39 PM

  4. Fellas, fellas… we're all entitled to an opinion, and yours are welcome here, but honestly, "no factual support to back it up"? The consensus of the scientific community is overwhelmingly that carbon dioxide levels are changing the climate. International efforts to encourage renewables and cut carbon are predicated on it. You can argue that they're all wrong, but you can't deny that a consensus exists. Big love.

    Disconnector | 05 November 2009, 03:59 PM