CO2 - Some call it pollution. We call it life.

[merwin]

For those that haven't seen it, these commercials sound like parodies. Well, they're real.

The Competitive Enterprise Institute was kind enough to place their videos on YouTube. Here is their CO2 website.
http://www.cei.org/pages/co2.cfm

[whistle]

1. CO2 in high enough concentrations is toxic to humans and other oxygen

...breathing forms of life

[longship]

2. Amazing dissembling by the oil and coal industry.

These ads have been out here for months. They are shameful.

[Nikki Stone 1]

3. i heard that on Al Franken this AM

Just when you think it can't get any more bizarre....

[merwin]

9. I'm going to have to sign up for AAR premium to get today's show.

I missed out on his 'Feces' parody.

[Nikki Stone 1]

11. That was well done. And appropriate

Who does Al's parodies?

[merwin]

15. I'm sure he's involved in them.

I believe he was a writer when he was on SNL.

[Nikki Stone 1]

16. Yeah, he was definitely one of the early SNL writers

Didn't know if he still had a hand in that stuff

[Hugin]

4. I call it a poison gas.

If they like it so much they can move to Venus.

I hear it's a balmy 465 Degrees and a 100 atm worth.

Sounds to be their kind of place.

[annabanana]

5. "Healthy Forests", "Clean Air Initiative". . . .

same ol' same ol'

[patdem]

6. Yeah, roaches THRIVE on it..too bad humans have a limit

the 'lets pretend' folks have more money than the 'realIty folks'...MAYBE THERE REALLY IS A TOOTH FAIRY?

[warbustdotcom]

7. oh my gosh..

Oh my gosh, I can't believe it! CO2 is just life, not pollution. LOL..I about fell out of my chair!

They need a commercial of some guy shoving a stick dynamite up his butt then lighting it on fire. The voice over could be, "Lit dynamite in the rear, some call it self destruction, we just call it fire works."

[nam78_two]

8. heh heh heh-I remember that..I loved it!

I like it when they do our work for us...

Its like those statements by Rummy etc. that Jon Stewart doesn't even have to change...
He just has to read 'em out...the jokes write themselves :D

[Cleita]

10. I thought that is what was used to pump draft beer. n/t

[Odin2005]

12. CO2 + H20 = Carbonic acid = dead coral and other shelled organisms.

[Fountain79]

13. Water is life...but too much of it will kill you too...n/t

[pretzel4gore]

14. in 1992 it was 6 billion metric tonnes

there were 400 million cars in the world then....this stat was taken from the may/92 issue of harpers magazine. since 1992, the number of cars has increased, and the totals/carbon must be way up there....how much can the earth's 12 mile thick atmosphere absorb? running 10 thousand miles, a car puts its weight in carbon into the air....
some people think that 100 degrees is about as high as the temp can go, but really, it's a miracle, in effect, that the earth only experiences temp between minus 60 and plus 120 or so.....if the applecart is upset, even the cockroaches could cook

[lectrobyte]

17. We're seeing the highest CO2 levels in 650,000 years.

[Fountain79]

18. Imitation of a Limbauh idiot...

"So there were SUV's 650,000 years ago?"

[DemonFighterLives]

19. dougheads

I guess they think what they don't know can't hurt them.
:silly:

[IDemo]

20. CO2. Apply it directly to your atmosphere.

CO2. Apply it directly to your atmosphere.
CO2. Apply it directly to your atmosphere.

[NuttyFluffers]

21. if i were a tree, yes...

but there's pretty much always such a thing as too much. like too much oxygen will kill us respirating organisms, too. currently there's too much carbon dioxide in our atmospheric composition... oh hell, it's just stupid propaganda to reel in the stupid sound-bite cultists.