Can comedy rap reach the people conventional campaigning can't? On the evidence of this video, I think yes.

Droppin facts all over this wax

While bizness be crying about a carbon tax

In case you've missed it, take a look at this video (unless swearing offends you). It made me ask if comedy rap is an effective campaigning tool, and it certainly made me smile. Made by working Australian climate scientists for a television show, it lampoons the fact that virtually all climate sceptics are not scientists.

It's a simple point worth making, but will the lyrical trickery mean it reaches people that po-faced preaching doesn't? I think it probably will - it's been watched almost 60,000 times already.

The nearest recent equivalent I can think of is MC NxtGen's send up the UK health secretary Andrew Lansley for his proposed reforms to the health service. I think it's actually a better performed rap and it has been watched 375,000 times. It got a response from Lansley himself: "We will never privatise the NHS," he told the Guardian. "But I'm impressed that he's managed to get lyrics about GP commissioning into a rap."

The climate rap predictably induced confected outrage in the sceptics over the bad language. None addressed the central point that most sceptics are not scientists.

Having said all that, my favourite remains an advert, not a campaign video: the slick Yeo Valley rap. And 1.8 million YouTube views suggests I am not alone. Any I have missed?