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 Stories About: climate AND climate change skepticism AND green living AND messaging AND TV
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The CEI ads
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David Roberts |
17 May 2006 |
Gristmill |
| OMFG, so, I finally went and watched the TV ads to be aired by the Competitive Enterprise Institute a week before An Inconvenient Truth is released. I'm not sure what I expected, but these things are genuinely funny. They look like nothing so much as a parody produced by Saturday Night Live. The tag line -- the last line of the ad, read dramatically as a little girl blows a dandelion -- is: "Carbon dioxide. They call it pollution. We call it life." It's a ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, green living, messaging, TV (all these topics) |
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