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Environment Minister Bans Climate Change Ads
Northern Ireland’s Environment Minister Sammy Wilson has blocked a government advertising campaign on climate change.
In an extraordinary move, Wilson claimed the adverts were part of an “insidious propaganda campaign”.
The adverts called for people to save electricity,both cutting the costs of their bills and helping the environment, as well as being less dependent on fossil fuels. Wilson argued that they were “giving people the impression that by turning off the standby light on their TV they could save the world from melting glaciers and being submerged in 40ft of water”, saying he had written to the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to say that the advertising campaign Act on CO2 “was not welcome”. He explained that he did not believe in its message that “man-made greenhouse gas emissions are the main cause of climate change” and that the campaign was contrary to his personal views.
The Green party claim his opinions on climate change has made a “a laughing stock out of Northern Ireland” and have called for his resignation. Friends of the Earth NI director John Woods said: “It’s bad enough that we have an environment minister who doesn’t accept that human activity is driving climate change, but trying to block advice to people on how they can help tackle it is completely irresponsible. He went on to say “The reality is that the overwhelming majority of climate scientists believe that our activities are causing global warming and that urgent action is needed to tackle it.”
19/02/2009 at 12:42 am
Finally, someone called BS on the climate change propaganda. Guess we’re moving to Ireland if we ever want to hear the end of it. And FYI, the glaciers will melt, and they will freeze again, just as they have done for millions of years before we got here. Anyone who screams “Save the Planet” is either an idiot, or a hypocrite. The planet will do just fine, it’s the people that are screwed, nothing you can do about it. Case closed.
27/02/2009 at 04:36 pm
It’s a bit condescending of him to state that people actually believe the glaciers wont melt and the planet will be saved if we switch off our standby lights, if that’s what he thinks of people then how the hell was he elected?
The fact is - small changes in everybody’d lives will cut the greenhouse gas emissions, this can only be good for the environment. It cannot be bad. Everybody knows that human power consumption is not the only, or even the main cause of greenhouse gas emmissions but it is the easiest way for your average Joe to make a change and make a difference. It is a small step towards the slowing down of the killing of the planet, or the people on it. It’s a bit irresponsible to be against these policies.