The Association of British Drivers welcomes the fact that two Government newspaper adverts have been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for exaggerating the dangers of projected future climate change. The ASA have also referred the TV advert to OfCom for potentially breaching a ban on political advertising 1. However, we are disappointed, but not surprised, that the adjudication on the Act On CO₂ TV advertisements relies heavily on evidence from the discredited Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), as does the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), in its defence against over 900 complaints about the theory of man-made global warming being presented as fact.
 
ABD Environment spokesman Paul Biggs said

“The ASA and the DECC have ignored a succession of recent damaging scientific 'errors' and scandals such as 'Climategate', where it is clear that the scientific publication and IPCC processes have been 'nobbled' by a small group of politically biased scientists. The IPCC is therefore discredited as being 'authoritative' on climate alarmism. Even the United Nations has called for a full review of the IPCC's operations, as have several lead authors of the 2007 IPCC Report. The use of debunked alarmism by the DECC, such as the 2003 European heat wave 2 and the Naomi Oreskes essay on scientific consensus 3, is particularly annoying. In truth, no links have been established in the scientific literature between man-made CO₂ emissions, global warming, and increased losses due to natural disasters such as floods and hurricanes. 4”

Biggs continues:

“Man-made global warming remains an unproven computer modelled theory that is being used for a variety of financial and political agendas by the three main political parties. It is disgraceful that taxpayers' money is being spent on this propaganda in a cynical attempt to soften up the driving public for yet more unjustified taxes on cars and their fuel.”