The heck with 3:00 AM ads cautioning Americans about who's more qualified to be in the White House answering fictitious emergency phone calls.
What this country really needs is a national television campaign warning folks about the dangers inherent in global warming policies advocated by Nobel Laureate Al Gore.
Just in the nick of time, the conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute announced Tuesday the release of an ad destined to thrill climate realists around the world:
Today the Competitive Enterprise Institute launches a national advertising campaign, focusing on the threat to affordable energy posed by Al Gore’s global warming agenda. The ads contrast Gore’s energy-consuming lifestyle with the life-and-death need for energy in developing countries.
CEI’s new campaign comes in the face of Gore’s March 1st announcement of a major new set of ads from his Alliance for Climate Protection to promote the global warming issue. CEI’s response includes both a broadcast television ad and related online video.
“Global warming activists warn us about the alleged threats from global warming, but are usually silent about the much more immediate threats from global warming policies,” said CEI General Counsel Sam Kazman, also the ad co-creator. “Restricting access to affordable energy is a sure recipe for increasing poverty, disease and human misery around the world.”
Climate realists will also enjoy two recent videos created by CEI regarding this issue:
Bravo, CEI. Bravo!
—Noel Sheppard is an economist, business owner, and Associate Editor of NewsBusters.
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How long before the first
March 12, 2008 - 20:41 ET by Chris NormanHow long before the first pressure is applied to TV stations not to run these commercials, with the charge that they are "reckless" and go against scientific "consensus"?
Bet not long
March 12, 2008 - 20:54 ET by bigtimerBet not long Chris.
Pressure may be applied slowly...but $$$ does talk too.
I'm glad this group did this though...it is disgusting what Gore and his critters have gotten away with.
I'm glad they did too. The
March 12, 2008 - 21:04 ET by Chris NormanI'm glad they did too. The pressure probably won't work, but the alarmists will try - that's what they do best.
Now if I can only get these people to Watch these Videos
March 12, 2008 - 21:47 ET by PopularTechThankfully CEI is doing this now if we could only get everyone to watch these videos instead of just Al Gore's propaganda we might actually get somewhere.
Censored Global Warming Videos (Videos)
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»→ Anti-Gore ads
March 12, 2008 - 20:48 ET by Cool ArrowMaybe we will have had enough of this nonsense when more of us realize ethanol is running our grocery bills through the roof.
Don't you just love Iowa's political stranglehold?
♣ a seal
So true about the
March 13, 2008 - 09:28 ET by IgnatzJFahrquarSo true about the swapping of food production for fuel
production. Among things that need to happen are MPG ratings need to go up and
better yields of ethanol from the crop.
Apparently there is an enzymatic process using the whole
corn plant, leaves, stalks and all, that will yield 10 gallons of ethanol for
every 1 gallon of petroleum used in the process. This is compared to the
current 1 petroleum gets you 1.3 ethanol ratio. Brazil, which is supposed to be the
“model” ethanol production system, has a 1 to 8 ratio using sugar cane.
These Econuts and Global Warming buffoons are going about it
all wrong. The bottom line for me is I could care less what my car runs on or
where my power comes from as long as it cuts out the Muslim (and throw in Chavez
for good measure) connection. If you told me I’d be paying $2.80 a gallon for
fuel but it would be relatively price stable and not dependent on a group of
people wearing head towels I’d be all for it.
Sell the economics; the dollars and cents (actually, sense …
which the Gorites have none of) rather than the damned carbon credit or save
muddy the mud skipper scams.
"All generalizations are false, including this one.” Mark Twain
Myths about Ethanol and Oil Dependency
March 13, 2008 - 15:50 ET by PopularTechMyth: Corn Ethanol is Great (Video) (5min) (John Stossel, 20/20)
Ethanol Energy Content (U.S Department of Energy)
Ethanol (E85) = 80,000 BTUs, Gasoline = 125,000 BTUs (per gallon)
Fuel Ethanol Cannot Alleviate U.S. Dependence On Petroleum (Science Daily)
Ethanol Fuel From Corn Faulted As "Unsustainable Subsidized Food Burning" In Analysis By Cornell Scientist (Science Daily)
Give me a break - Oil Prices (Video) (5min) (John Stossel, 20/20)
Myths About Breaking Our Foreign Oil Habit (The Washington Post)
- The average amount of tax on gasoline in the United States is 47.0 cents per gallon (API)
- The average amount of tax on diesel in the United States is 53.6 cents per gallon (API)
- The largest supplier of oil to the United States is Canada (EIA)
- The second largest supplier of oil to the United States is Mexico (EIA)
- 60% of United States oil imports come from non-OPEC countries (EIA)
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Sugar
March 13, 2008 - 22:19 ET by CobraMan"Among things that need to happen are MPG ratings need to go up and better yields of ethanol from the crop"
Wouldn't it make a lot more sense to eat the corn and use real, abundant, natural sugar beats as a growth medium for the ethanol-producing bacteria? After all, it's the sugars in the corn that is being converted, not the cellulose. Turning pure sugar into ethanol is a simple process that we have been using for centuries. It's time to use it again, don‘t you think?
Beet sugar is cheaper to produce, is far more efficient, and gives high yields per acre with a lot less additional maintenance like needing to add fertilizers. Corn production actually strips the soil of vital nutrients and natural fertilizers while sugar crops do not. Hundreds of tons of artificial fertilizers must be used to produce the corn every season. All we need is soil, water, air, and sunlight to grow sugar. Let's use the best material available and stop waiting for some "miracle" process that may or may not actually work some time in the future. The sugar crops work NOW!
Bravo, Ditto, and
March 12, 2008 - 21:03 ET by motherbeltBravo, Ditto, and Amen!!
It's about time someone got the "other side" of the story out.
I have been trying to find the article I read some time ago, but I guess I need advanced Lexis/Nexis to locate it.
It was about environmentalists etc. who don't want electricity brought to African villages, because they think that would pollute their cultures. They think it's better for them to remain poor, dumb and supposedly happy in their "natural," primitive lives.
Does anyone else recall reading about this, and where?
Update: This isn't the article I originally saw, but it provides a good example of similar mindset, this time in India: Damning Development
There are so many people who
March 12, 2008 - 20:57 ET by the strugglerThere are so many people who believe GW because they think they're supposed to.It's mind-bottling.It's like your mind is in a bottle.
I have pretty much lost all patience with the Climate Alarmists.
March 12, 2008 - 21:26 ET by R D HelmThere is a saying around here:
"Stupid is forever, but ignorance can be fixed."
I am now of the considered opinion that, when it comes to the Climate Alarmists, given the reams of evidence that has pretty much shot their arguments to shreds, we are definitely dealing with the former in this situation.
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Heartening
March 12, 2008 - 21:28 ET by acumenYes Noel, it's reassuring on a certain level to see the demedia-driven "consensus" challenged in a way it seemed academics and professionals were too intimidated to do just a year ago. As always, the activists overplay their hand, the resentment reached critical mass and the cracks began to emerge.
The problem is even the White House still finds it neccessary politically to appease the Bali-boneheads. This representative Bali-bonhead is very telling of where her little green heart lies -- “A climate change response must have at its heart a redistribution of wealth and resources,” said Emma Brindal, a climate justice campaigner coordinator for Friends of the Earth. It's a forced global tax masquerading as emotional concern for Mother Earth.
Now onto that other "consensus" -- That Her Highness is entitled to the Presidency...
Get With It Folks
March 12, 2008 - 21:43 ET by BlueCat57Hey in case you haven't heard "Global Warming" is out an "Climate Change" is in. That way whether it is hotter OR colder than usual it can be blamed on us evil, nasty humans.
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That's like reading Marx to become an entrepreneur.
Well, Blue, dontcha know
March 12, 2008 - 22:01 ET by motherbeltWell, Blue, dontcha know the earth's climate has been the same for a gazillion years...and now it's starting to change...
Production Value is key
March 12, 2008 - 22:41 ET by ColdsnapUmmm...I can't stand global warming alarms. I live in Vancouver and I get the new Carbon Tax, so I really don't like tree-hugging energy-haters. But guys...this video...wow...I've seen mexican soap operas with better production value.
I so want to shoot a video like this around, but damn that's sad.
I love religion. It keeps most people from killing me and stealing my stuff.
Where is Giles Response?
March 12, 2008 - 22:55 ET by PopularTechOoops looks like he is too busy updating his del.icio.us account:
Giles Winterbourne (del.icio.us)
Hey look he just discovered the Newsweek article we debunked 6 months ago - so sad.
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PT, Damn, I knew Noel should have TM'd that term.
March 12, 2008 - 23:01 ET by R D HelmLOL-Too late now.
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PT, I just did a quickie perusal of Giles' "site."
March 12, 2008 - 23:19 ET by R D HelmGiven that most of the sources I saw being presented there were left-of-center (Newsweek, etc, as well as a plethora of worshipers who have fallen prostrate at the altar of the IPCC) I'd say Giles here is not just an alarmist, but a full-blown (forgive me Noel) kook.
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Maybe Giles is a sockpuppet
March 12, 2008 - 23:21 ET by Free StinkerMaybe Giles is a sockpuppet for Algore?
Pledge to not support RINOs ever again!
Big Oil
March 12, 2008 - 23:30 ET by acumenI don't know FS? Something about the name Giles.....got it. Limo driver for Algore.
Acumen, and the last name doesn't work for me either.
March 13, 2008 - 00:09 ET by R D HelmLOL-I'm thinking Bob Smith.
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Free, Giles' world doesn't rate that high. Not even close.
March 12, 2008 - 23:46 ET by R D HelmNo sh*t, take a gander at his so-called "site."
All he has done is assemble every left-leaning article he could find that supports his position. I am guessing that, in his limited way of thinking, only those who half-think and half-read would be impressed by any of it, and given the number of the articles that were "saved," there were more than a few of those.
The only thing that is even remotely interesting is the number of articles he has assembled. This indicates obsessive-compulsive behavior to me.
As for anyone he might remind me of, it is either Dave High (who I easily, well, you know) or else he is Professor Twaddle.
In any event, this clown is a total and complete fraud, which, as PT pointed out, just might explain his absence from this thread.
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R D
March 12, 2008 - 23:55 ET by Free StinkerI just knew he seemed familiar, but I couldn't figure out why!
Pledge to not support RINOs ever again!
Maybe Giles is a nom de
March 13, 2008 - 10:41 ET by danboMaybe Giles is a nom de plume for Al. They have a comperable grasp of science.
"There is a clear attempt to establish truth not by scientific methods but by perpetual repetition."
- Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Meteorology, MIT
Giles is a Hack
March 13, 2008 - 00:21 ET by PopularTechLook at what he concentrates on...
The Anti 'Man-Made' Global Warming Resource
Popular Tech. Remember,
March 13, 2008 - 08:19 ET by danboPopular Tech. Remember, anything you or anyone else here shows or says is irrelevant as we know nothing about science. However a blog produced by a cartoonist is science.
It's Giles law.
"There is a clear attempt to establish truth not by scientific methods but by perpetual repetition."
- Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Meteorology, MIT
It looks like our well read
March 13, 2008 - 09:08 ET by danboIt looks like our well read Giles doesn't read what he links to.
Source
Thanks, Giles.
A copy of the letter.
"There is a clear attempt to establish truth not by scientific methods but by perpetual repetition."
- Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Meteorology, MIT
Global warming appears to be
March 12, 2008 - 23:17 ET by yruymiGlobal warming appears to be a direct effect of the shrinking numbers of pirates since the 1800s. A graph of the approximate pirate population versus the average global temperature over the last 200 years clearly illustrates a statistically significant inverse relationship between pirates and global temperature.
I’ve been giving this some thought today. Obviously, we need more pirates. Its the only rational solution. Government pirate subsidies are long overdue. Degree programs in Pirate Studies at any university receiving federal funds should be mandated as well?
If you're looking for a meaningful, vital cause, this pirate/climatology movement may be just the thing. Al Gore missed the most inconvenient of truths when he missed the Pirate Connection.
I shall begin wearing an eye patch this very day in a show of support.
Ayy, More Pirates matey!
March 13, 2008 - 07:24 ET by planetrepublicanWell there are a growing number of pirates off the Somalia coast. I suggest we round up all the liberals, especially the ones belonging the Religion of Earth Warmers, especially Algore, and send them to Somolia. They are "enlightened" fellows so I am sure the people of Somolia will welcome them with open arms. These "special people" can use the Code Pink girls as their new "army", defending them with shrill voices and enlightened "reason" of peace and love; and of course these new "pirates" will not have guns, God forbid. They can all live in harmony living the pirate life, bashing the US and GW Bush, and be very happy. The Global Warming gods will be appeased by the new number of pirates and let us all live in peace.
Pirates? We have
March 13, 2008 - 07:31 ET by ricklailPirates? We have pirates by the droves here. There must be 50-60 thousand. I am referring to East Carolina University-the Pirate nation.
If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.-Lewis Grizzard
There are plenty of
March 13, 2008 - 08:06 ET by danboThere are plenty of pirates around. They just changed with the times and prey. They're now selling carbon off sets. Kind of like selling air.
"There is a clear attempt to establish truth not by scientific methods but by perpetual repetition."
- Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Meteorology, MIT
Ah, yes, the "cure-all" carbon offsets!
March 13, 2008 - 10:13 ET by Indiana JoeI've been waiting for a chance to use this:
"To address the inescapable emissions associated with the DVD, News Corporation has entered into an agreement to purchase high-quality carbon offsets from a wind farm project in India.
"These offsets have been verified by an independent expert third party (Det Norske Veritas, a reputable carbon project verifier) and accredited under a recognized program, the Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS). The Voluntary Carbon Standard was developed by the Climate Group, the International Emissions Trading Association and the World Economic Forum.
"We will permanently retire these carbon offsets, removing them from circulation in the carbon market. The amount of carbon associated with retired offsets will be equivalent to or more than the emissions associated with the... DVD release."
Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but the point here seems to be that, since they gave money to some wind-farm in India, it's like the pollution they produced didn't count?
Truly a "bizarro-world" (ahem) "solution."
Wonderful ads
March 12, 2008 - 23:54 ET by SeptemberI'd love it if CEI could also inform/warn about the threat to affordable energy perpetuated by Gov. Schwarzeneggar.
Pity Arnold (Mr. Commutes-on-Carbon-Spewing-Jet) hasn't gone all Spitzer on us.
well something needed to be done to counter that tick tick tick
March 13, 2008 - 09:22 ET by lunaticcringeradiohas anyone else seen that one where are the little kids are pining on and on about all the things that are going to happen because of global warming and they're chanting tick tick tick in the background. i think the parents of those kids should be brought up on child abuse charges and have their kids taken away. it's about time we start pushing ads that point outthe lies and bs in all those global warming claims.
i just got a t-shit the other day that says al gore didn't invent the internet, but he did make up global warming. i can't wait to wear that thing in the next coffee shop book store.
lunaticcringeradio
I get the idea that Al is
March 13, 2008 - 09:36 ET by KarmaI get the idea that Al is full of it, but wouldn't a t-shirt fit better?
DELICIOUS !!!
March 13, 2008 - 11:10 ET by LionKingGreat work, NOEL !!!
Looks like you hijacked your own thread
March 13, 2008 - 13:44 ET by Giles WinterbourneThanks for the links to the del.icio.us/giles.winterbourne lists.
Interesting conjectures.
It seems rather odd the CEI would use an attack ad, with a chunk of it focused on personality, rather than getting a good spokesman working either the benefits or the left-wing conspiracy to control your lives. Or bring up the Sunspot theory and that we need to worry about global cooling. Or the Cosmic Ray one. Or the 'climate always changes'. Or the Orbit or Magnetism.
Just a page out of your
March 13, 2008 - 21:26 ET by NL207Just a page out of your book.
Lots of Thieving PIrates
March 13, 2008 - 13:46 ET by Mike From CanmoreThey've just changed their name to Democrats and Liberals/NDP in Canada.
There are 2 types of politicians. Those who know AGW is a sham and stupid ones.