...and I only wish it really were a Monty  Python joke!   Sorry about the 
formatting  problem.  
Cindy
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May 17, 2006
Reuters:
 
"Carbon  Dioxide...We Call It Life"   
A little girl blows away dandelion fluff as an announcer says,  "Carbon 
dioxide: they call it pollution; we call it life," in an advertisement  targeting 
global warming "alarmists," especially Al Gore.  
The television ads, screened for the press on Wednesday and set to air in  14 
U.S. cities starting on Thursday, are part of a campaign by the Competitive  
Enterprise Institute to counter a media spotlight on threats posed by  
worldwide climate change. 
The spots are timed to precede next week's theatrical release of "An  
Inconvenient Truth," a documentary film on global warming that features Gore,  the 
former vice president and Democratic presidential candidate. 
Against backdrops of a park, a beach and a forest, one celebrates  the 
benefits of greenhouse gas-producing fuels. 
"The fuels that produce CO2 (carbon dioxide) have freed us from a  world of 
back-breaking labor, lighting up our lives, allowing us to create and  move the 
things we need, the people we love," the ad runs. "Now some  politicians want 
to label carbon dioxide a pollutant. Imagine if they succeed  — what would 
our lives be like then?" 
The other ad questions media reports of the threat of climate change,  
especially a Time magazine issue devoted to the topic, and shows film  of a glacier 
melting and then runs in reverse to show the glacier  reconstituting itself. 
"We had started work on this several months back, but we sort of changed  
course once the flood of glacier-melting stories began," said Sam Kazman, an  
institute lawyer who worked on the ads. "So we did want to get out there  before 
the Al Gore film got into national opening."  
"They fly in the face of most of the science," Charlie Miller of  
Environmental Defense said of the institute ads. "The good news is that  there's not a 
trade-off here between prosperity, jobs, growth and protecting  the Earth. We 
can do both."  
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(Cindy here -- how about "Urine -- We Call It Yellow Water," or "Tobacco  
Smoke -- We Call It Romantic Haze"?   The possibilities  are endless, folks...



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Cindy  Hildebrand
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Ames, IA  50010

"To convert the  many beautiful lakes of Iowa into fields for cultivation, 
appears to me to be  utilitarianism run mad.. The state has more than poetic 
interest in such  lakes...If by any means the lakes of Iowa can be preserved, it 
should by all  means be done." (Iowa Attorney General Milton Remley,  1895)

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