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The conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute (motto: Get Rich or Kill Everybody Else Tryin’) has launched a new campaign to counter the impact of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth.
The theme of the campaign? Carbon dioxide is good for you! (Sound familiar?)
Two ads from this campaign are presented below. I’m sorry to have to do this to you. You might want to have a punching bag handy.
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If you really want an environmental horror story, why not ask Microsoft what happens to our old computers we throw out after the constant Microsoft Software mandated upgrades?
Environmental groups say there's a good chance it ended up in a dump in the developing world, where thousands of laborers burn, smash and pick apart electronic waste to scavenge for the precious metals inside — unwittingly exposing themselves and their surroundings to innumerable toxic hazards.
A new report documents one such "cyber-age nightmare" — The report is called Exporting Harm: The High-Tech Trashing of Asia
Men, women and children pulling wires from computers and burning them at night, fouling the air with carcinogenic smoke.
Other laborers, making $1.50 a day and working with little or no protection, burned plastics and circuit boards or poured acid on electronic parts to extract silver and gold. Many pried open printer cartridges — whose hazards are uncertain — and smashed lead-laden cathode ray tubes from computer monitors.
Consequently, the ground water is so polluted that drinking water has to be trucked in from a town 18 miles away, the report said. One river sample in the area had 190 times the pollution levels allowed under World Health Organization guidelines.
"I've seen a lot of dirty operations in Third World countries, but what was shocking was seeing all this post-consumer waste,"
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2002/02/25/computer-waste.htm
How about turning off our computers right now to prevent this environmental nightmare from getting even worse? Naah let's blame the Republicans for the problem, then we don't have to do anything.
Wow, they should have tried this last fall.
Alarmist liberals would have you believe that dihydrogen monoxide is dangerous to the inhabitants of New Orleans. But 70% of the world's surface is water. Humans require 8 cups a day in order to survive. They call Katrina a massive humanitarian failure. We call it life.
Thank you, carbon dioxide, for saving me from a life of back breaking labor!
Those admen should be rewarded for a job well done. Let's herd them all into a room, seal it, and let them fill it up with "life" (don't forget to exhale, everyone!)
nothing new in this latest spin. see what prwatch has been tracking for years:
http://www.prwatch.org/taxonomy/term/105
see especially:
I was so inpired by that commercial that I went out and started all of our cars and left them idling all night. Today, I think I'll go hang out in the railroad yards by the idling locomotives.
Thank you, competitive enterprise institute. Can we please get a series of inspirational ads about the glories of nuclear power as well? It's my dream that we will someday have one on Harbor Island. A really big one, with those huge cooling towers like on "The Simpsons"
I've written a very brief analysis of the logic behind these claims. There is also some interesting discussion on that page.
Before cars and SUVs and factories... trees were suffocating.
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The Greenland glacier-growth red herring has been around for a while now. But it's been shown that the cause is actually warmer ocean temperatures increasing precipitation in the area. Peer-reviewed articles about this:
http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/26024
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1115356v1
(Sadly, that last is for Science magazine subscribers only).