Two government advertisements that use nursery rhymes to tell gullible voters the reason-du-jour that we are all going to die by 2020 and not to have fun in the meantime otherwise we’ll…die…have been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for blatant lies alarmism scaremongering stupidity exaggeration.

The adverts, commissioned by Ed Miliband, the energy secretary, used the rhymes to suggest that Britain faces an inevitable increase in storms, floods and heat waves unless greenhouse gas emissions are brought under control. The ASA has ruled that the claims made in the newspaper adverts were not supported by solid science and has told the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) that they should not be published again.

 So far, so slapped wrists, but we also see that:

It has also referred a television commercial to the broadcast regulator, Ofcom, for potentially breaching a prohibition on political advertising.

Now this is interesting, as is opens the door to climate hysteria being prohibited during an election campaign. And aknowledges that it is political too.

There’s a real killer, a huge belly laugh, in the Times report, though. One for every purist who has enjoyed watching the corrupt IPCC (headed up, as you remember, by a failed Indian railway engineer) being twisted every way by internal corruption, wrangling, hypocrisy and fraudulent science:

They attracted 939 complaints — more than the ASA received for any advertisement last year. The deluge posed problems for the ASA, which is not a scientific body, so it decided to compare the text of Miliband’s adverts with the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

So, they compared one steaming pile of dung against another to find out which smelled worse. Classic.

But there’s every chance it will be Here Comes The New Boss, Just Like The Old Boss:

Greg Barker, shadow minister for climate change, said: “It is so unnecessary to exaggerate the risks of global warming, and also counterproductive.”

That’s a pathetic and limp-wristed miss of an open goal. Now he’s got a marvellous a non-job, or rather it should be. Could TheEye have that portfolio please? Leisurely days spent throwing darts at a picture of Al Gore and afternoons observing how the natural sunspot cycle – not that little LED on your television – make a cricket ball reverse seam at Lords? No, in reality it’s bound to involve drafting lots of legislation to make our lives even more controlled and subjugated. Here they are today in a cosy cross-party consensus interfering with sunbeds, even. *sigh* Good on serial deregulator Christopher Chope MP, though, for trying to derail it.