PrintMarch 15, 2010
Global Warming Nursery Rhymes
There is a reason why Hitler, Stalin, Mao and other totalitarian rulers have sought to give the state the responsibility for raising and educating their nation‘s youth. Parents cannot be fully trusted to prepare their children to be loyal and productive members of society. It is essential that the indoctrination process begin during those early formative years before any nonconformist values are instilled.
Embracing the tactics of history's greatest villains the global warming crowd in Great Britain recently unveiled a new advertising campaign aimed at the nation's children. The UK Telegraph reports that.
The two posters created on behalf of the Department of Energy and Climate Change juxtaposed adapted extracts from the nursery rhymes with prose warnings about the dangers of global warming.
One began: "Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water. There was none as extreme weather due to climate change had caused a drought." Beneath was written: "Extreme weather conditions such as flooding, heat waves and storms will become more frequent and intense."
The second advert read: "Rub a dub dub, three men in a tub-a necessary course of action due to flash flooding caused by climate change." It was captioned: "Climate change is happening. Temperature and sea levels are rising. Extreme weather events such as storms, floods and heat waves will become more frequent and intense. If we carry on at this rate, life in 25 years could be very different."
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) found that the posters made exaggerated claims and said that "the text accompanying the rhymes should have been couched in softer language." Nothing like a gentle slap on the wrist to keep the climate alarmists in check. In addition to their ruling on the nursery rhyme posters.
The watchdog found that other elements of the campaign, including a television and cinema advert in which a father read his daughter a nightmarish bedtime story about a world blighted by climate change, did not breach it's guidelines.
Of course on our side of the pond the WWF has produced equally shameless advertisements featuring small children (a favorite leftist ploy) one of which was beseeching us to save the polar bears from global warming. In America we have no shortage of extreme left wing organizations working to brainwash the youth with their discredited mythology of climate change.
In keeping with the climate alarmists nursery rhyme theme, I would like to dedicate this little number to Al Gore. Maybe he would like to use it during his speech at the University of Tennessee when he receives his honorary PhD.
Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard.
To get her poor doggie a bone.
When she got there she was met by agents from the EPA, the IPCC, Interpol and the DOJ.
They issued a cease and desist order, confiscated her CO2 generating dog and gave her 30 days to pay a hefty fine or face imprisonment.
Captioned: Extreme erosion of personal freedom is real and the likelihood of greater government intrusion in our lives, substantial tax increases, and high unemployment is more possible than ever.
Phil Boehmke
