Pro-Global Warming Nursery Rhyme Ads 'banned for overstating risks'
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Date: 2010-03-18

Two nursery rhyme adverts commissioned by the Government to raise awareness of climate change have been banned for overstating the risks. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ruled that the adverts  which were based on the children's poems Jack and Jill and Rub-A-Dub-Dub  made exaggerated claims about the threat to Britain from global warming.
In definitely asserting that climate change would cause flooding and drought the adverts went beyond mainstream scientific consensus, the watchdog said.
It noted that predictions about the potential global impact of global warming made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) "involved uncertainties" that the adverts failed to reflect.