http://goodspeedupdate.com/2006/1961 Rob Goodspeed's blog Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:48:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://goodspeedupdate.com/2006/1961/comment-page-1#comment-6744 The Goodspeed Update » Reframing and the Global Warming Debate Thu, 15 Jun 2006 01:35:15 +0000 http://goodspeedupdate.com/?p=1961#comment-6744 [...] 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’); [...] [...] 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’); [...]

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