Ad clips on the Daily Show against global warming?

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Jon Stewart showed the clips saying that CO2 is good for us, that glaciers are actually forming - reversing the clip showing it melting.

Are these ads for real?

[dflprincess]

1. I know the stuff about CO2 is part of a real ad

I don't know about the glacier. It probably is, given how outrageous the CO2 ad is.

[durrrty libby]

2. yes they are real. The links were posted here a while back

The entire ad was unbelievably inane.

If you are good at searching, you could probably find them

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3. Thanks. I am glad that Stewart tells the world what some of us

may have missed.

When he talked about the reporter with "the shades" my spouse asked, after Stewart comment about the reporter being legally blind, whether this was, indeed, true. And I replies that it was, having read it earlier here.

And I guess I missed - was it Rove? comment that had we followed Murtha and withdrew from Iraq, that Zarquawi would not be dead. Talking about cheap shot.

[Up2Late]

4. Yup, they have them as a Quicktime movie at their website.

Funded by Big Oil! <http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Competitive_Enterprise_Institute>

<http://www.prwatch.org/node/4812>

<http://streams.cei.org/> Below are the High bandwidth links to the videos, to use as much of their bandwidth as possible:

"Energy"
<http://interface.audiovideoweb.com/lnk/ny60win16080/eresources/cei/Global_Warming_Energy-high.wmv/play.asx>
<http://interface.audiovideoweb.com/lnk/avwebdsquick2235/eresources/cei/Global_Warming_Energy-high.mov/play.qtl>

"Glaciers"
<http://interface.audiovideoweb.com/lnk/ny60win16080/eresources/cei/Global_Warming_Glaciers-high.wmv/play.asx>
<http://interface.audiovideoweb.com/lnk/avwebdsquick2235/eresources/cei/Global_Warming_Glaciers-high.mov/play.qtl>

"Carbon Dioxide... We Call It Life," US TV Ads Say

US: May 18, 2006

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 US cities starting on Thursday, are part of a campaign by the 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?"

(more at link)

<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36412/story.htm>

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5. Thanks. This is really disgusting (nt)