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Posted: June 2nd, 2006 | Author: Rob Goodspeed | Filed under: Links | 1 Comment »-
Industry group releases attack ads criticizing Al Gore’s movie.
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[...] I blogged about these ads produced by the industry-funded “Competitive Enterprise Institute” attacking Al Gore’s documentary on global warming because they’re too over the top not to be funny. However, the tagline to each spot reveals they’re playing defense against a subtle shift in the way people talk about global warming. Each ad ends with the lines, “Carbon Dioxide: They call it pollution. We call it life.” I noticed Al Gore refers to carbon dioxide as “pollution” in An Inconvenient Truth. Of course he’s technically correct: Merriam-Webster defines pollute as “to contaminate (an environment) especially with man-made waste” and the CO2 is definitely man-made and definitely getting into the environment. However it doesn’t quite fit with my notion of pollution — something that’s generally not already present in large amounts. writeWidget(’rlecaeyg7k’); [...]