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15 Mar 2007 @ 01:26, by Unknown Oldie but goodie and beyond parody: The ads, a classic of the genre, can be seen: here. And also here, and here, and here, on Youtube. In May 2006, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) released a controversial ad campaign with two television commercials arguing that global warming is not a problem. The commercials used the tagline "Carbon Dioxide - They call it pollution; We call it life." One ad stated that the world's glaciers are "growing, not melting... getting thicker, not thinner." The ad cited two Science articles to support its claims. However, the editor for Science stated that the ad "misrepresents the conclusions of the two cited Science papers... by selective referencing". The author of the articles, Curt Davis, director of the Center for Geospatial Intelligence at the University of Missouri-Columbia, said CEI was misrepresenting his previous research to back their claims. More here

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