Friends have responded to the previous post about An Inconvenient Truth pointing to the ad campaign launched by the oil industry-backed Competitive Enterprise Institute to counter the movie's claim that we ignore global warming at our peril. One of the slogans: "Carbon dioxide -- They call it pollution. We call it life."
You can read a New Republic story here (free; registration required) that describes and debunks the anti-Gore campaign.
I have a link to the ads. Unlike many liberals, I support strongly the right of any idiot to buy advertising making whatever claims they like (on the theory that suspicious-sounding ads should make us suspicious of ALL ads -- the notion that we can divide ads into those that are true and those that aren't is preposterous).
However, I also have no intention of linking to the ads here -- it's my personal choice not to reproduce and disseminate the CEI's ads for them. (That's why blogging is not journalism, I suppose.)
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