They call it a compelling challenge to global warming alarmism. We call it a hilarious testament to PR crapola!
Those wild and crazy folks over at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (AKA Climate Skeptics, Inc) are worried that CO2 has gotten a bad name, so they’re pouring those hard-earned Exxon dollars into a couple tv spots to polish up its image. You gotta pity these guys. Scientists who’ll say Global Warming is a myth are getting harder and harder to buy, Corporations that want to be associated with their hamfisted dirty tricks are fleeing like proverbial rats from a sinking ship, and the best they can muster is the subliminal message that if you think CO2 is a pollutant, you’re anti-civilization and have a problem with little girls in white dresses puffing dandelion clocks into the wind. Owww. That hurts.
My name is Brian Fitzgerald, and I lead the (multiple) webby-award winning digital communications team at Greenpeace International. This blog is (mostly) a glimpse behind the scenes at Greenpeace and a repository for lessons learned and experiments in online activism and social media. I believe that Planet Earth is evolving a mammalian brain, and that the internet is knitting the neural cortex. We are the synaptic nerves that constitute its conscience.
3 Comments to 'Best joke in a long time: Carbon Dioxide — they call it pollution, we call it life.'
May 18, 2006
We watched these yesterday and couldn’t stop laughing. I downloaded the scripts from the CEI. Absolute comedy gold. I have no choice but to edit it:
Translation: “We’ve made so much money off CO2 Exxon’s oil that we can go on a skiing vacation in St. Moritz. Wait, where’s the snow? You say it melted? It’s gone for good?”
I think I’ll amuse myself with these guys today
May 18, 2006
jesus wept. you couldn’t make this shit up. no seriously, if i had seen that without an introduction from this blog i would have thought that was an onion pisstake.
May 20, 2006
Unfinished explanation of combustion process from fossil fuel. Combustion turns good co2 into nitrous oxide, the cause of global warming. You need combustion to convert water to steam to electricity. Its a very profitable for the energy business, and the biggest contributor to greenhouse is the governments of the US-fed,staste and local. They are the largest users of electricity- Talk about the kettle calling the pot black.
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