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Post subject: Pro Carbon Dioxide Advertising... only in America...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A little girl blows away dandelion fluff as an announcer says, "Carbon dioxide: they call it pollution; we call it life," in an advertisement targeting global warming "alarmists," especially Al Gore.
The television ads, screened for the press on Wednesday and set to air in 14 U.S. cities starting on Thursday, are part of a campaign by the conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute to counter a media spotlight on threats posed by worldwide climate change.
The spots are timed to precede next week's theatrical release of "An Inconvenient Truth," a documentary film on global warming that features Gore, the former vice president and Democratic presidential candidate.
Against backdrops of a park, a beach and a forest, one celebrates the benefits of greenhouse gas-producing fuels.
"The fuels that produce CO2 (carbon dioxide) have freed us from a world of back-breaking labor, lighting up our lives, allowing us to create and move the things we need, the people we love," the ad runs. "Now some politicians want to label carbon dioxide a pollutant. Imagine if they succeed -- what would our lives be like then?"
The other ad questions media reports of the threat of climate change, especially a Time magazine issue devoted to the topic, and shows film of a glacier melting and then runs in reverse to show the glacier reconstituting itself.
"We had started work on this several months back, but we sort of changed course once the flood of glacier-melting stories began," said Sam Kazman, an institute lawyer who worked on the ads. "So we did want to get out there before the Al Gore film got into national opening."
'RUNNING FOR ARCH-DRUID'
Fred Smith, president of the institute, a lobbying group closely allied to the Bush administration that stresses limited government regulation and a free-market approach to environmental issues, said he had seen the film and found it "very alarmist," although well-produced.
"There's a lot of pictures of Al Gore pensively looking into the sunset," Smith said. "I don't think he's running for president, but he might be running for arch-druid."
The institute and environmental groups such as Washington-based Environmental Defense agree that average global temperatures have risen about 1 degree Fahrenheit (0.6 degrees Celsius) in the last century.
But the institute questions the impact of global warming while a broad range of scientists and environmentalists, including Gore, have linked it to more severe storms, melting ice caps and rising sea levels.
"They fly in the face of most of the science," Charlie Miller of Environmental Defense said of the institute ads. "The good news is that there's not a trade-off here between prosperity, jobs, growth and protecting the Earth. We can do both."
Environmental Defense and the Ad Council released public service announcements in March featuring children as future victims of global warming, and these were mentioned critically at the briefing where the new ads were released.
The institute ads will run from May 18 through May 28 in Albany, New York; Albuquerque, New Mexico; Anchorage, Alaska; Austin, Texas; Charleston, West Virginia; Dallas; Dayton, Ohio; Denver; Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Phoenix; Sacramento and Santa Barbara, California; Springfield, Illinois, and Washington.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060517/us_nm/environment_ads_dc
that's right coorparations are runing ads to counter the effect of enviornmentalists lol what's going to happen next?
i couldn't believe this when i read it
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 Fri May 19, 2006 9:03 pm |
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That is absolutely amazing... Do they really think intelligent people will believe that?!?
Personally I think that natural energy sources are perfectly viable. It may look unsightly but if everyone had a solar/wind/water powered alternative source on their home their energy bill would be cut drastically and also help the environment. Near where I used to live there was a warehouse/factory with a wind turbine in the grounds, it powered their premesis easily and they even sent the spare energy to the power company. If one wind turbine can power a whole factory like that then why aren't homes being powered that way? Even a solar panel would be enough to run the energy for heating water. I know I'm a cynic, but I think the power companies are just interested in profits and not the environment. I'd much rather have a turbine sat on top of my house never mind what it looked like...
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| Sat May 20, 2006 7:18 am |
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yeah but you know they can't charge us for wind and sun lol
money rules the world through energy...
we need to change this and bad 
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| Sun May 21, 2006 3:53 am |
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