The Competitive Enterprise Institute focus' on Global Warmin

The Competitive Enterprise Institute has produced two 60-second television spots focusing on the alleged global warming crisis and the calls by some environmental groups and politicians for reduced energy use. The ads are airing in 14 U.S. cities from May 18 to May 28, 2006.

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News & Politics

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• funny
• ridiculous
• globalwarming
• energy
• oil
• co2
• ad
• ads

[vlauria]

this is supposed to make you laugh.

[uzebdrumz]

It's true you cannot see it. It is a colourless odourless gas, the waste product of respiration. Put a plastic bag over your head and discover the life given by CO2...or run your lawnmower in a garage - carbon monoxide is even more exciting.

[Marthyler]

IT'S GOT WHAT PLANTS CRAVE!

[opeth314]

Should I shoot myself now? Crazy that people are influenced by this commercial.

[saippuakullipillukau]

Fucken ey!

[severianofurth]

AFAIK, during the last interglacial warm period, Arctic temps were higher and polar bears survived. Coral bleaching? That's a normal adaptation mechanism. Algae living on corals give them their color. If the local environment changes, one set of species of algae leaves and another, which likes the new conditions, replaces it. The period between the different species of algae taking up residence is what makes the corals look white. This partly explains why corals have endured for millennia.

[Jadiustark]

You should still keep in mind that rapid climate change is usually followed by mass extinctions. Also the number one threat to coral right now isn't water pollution, but bleaching, which occurs when the water gets too warm.

[Esteanil]

It's just like oil, we're storing up energy reserves for future generations. Warmer earth = more energy. Carbon can be burned so if we put enough of it in the air we can burn the air, and that will give *lots* of energy. When the energy is deep in the ground it's hard to get to and use, so clearly we're helping the less developed world by making carbon (an energy source) much more easily accessible (it's so plentiful they can breathe it!)

[stuntcat666]

nice sounding voice.. I bet the monkeys who saw this between their Reality shows trusted every word of it.

[alnitaka]

fastfashn, oceans of oil do not exist! In fact, if all the oil that was discovered and used, is around now, and will be around in the future were spread evenly across the surface of our planet, its depth would be hardly more than a spark plug gap. But this video does indeed promote the life aspects of CO2 without counting the damaging aspects, such as global warming. Not only that, but polluting sources such as coal involve destroying mountains and other polluting activites.

[fastfashn]

As with anything, dear CEI, anything in too large a quantity is a bad thing. You can swim in the ocean, but do you want salt water in fields of corn? You can eat at McDees, but not every day. We are burning OCEANS of oil to make our cars run, and dumping the gasses into the atmo. IS THAT GOOD?!

[themgoodpancakes]

now this is scary shit.

probably invested in by coal and logging companies