"CO2 is life"

[nadine]

Saw this in VH1's best of week, TV ads as a response to global warming advocates.
http://www.cei.org/

Acc to VH1, it's supported by "mom and pop operations like Ford, GM, Exxon, etc." VH1 says they also have a page where you can donate! In case you haven't donated enough at the gas pump.

https://www.cei.org/secure/donate.cfm

[acrouch]

I joined the Giving Club at the Entrepreneur level.

[chicocarlucci]

Holy good lord,.,.
From their site, near the bottom. Factcheck.org talks about some misleading "facts" that CEI was throwing out there.
This was CEI's response to one of them.

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Earlier this week, FactCheck.Org published a critique of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s (CEI’s) global warming ads. In this press release, CEI responds to FactCheck’s allegations.


FactCheck: One of the ads says research shows "The Antarctic ice sheet is getting thicker, not thinner. . . Why are they trying to scare us?" Actually, scientists say increased snowfall in Antarctica's interior is evidence that global warming is taking place.

CEI Response: Our ad did not deny that global warming is happening. It took issue with the prevalent journalistic malpractice of selective reporting to alarm the public into supporting Kyoto-style, all-pain-for-no-gain, energy-suppression policies. If global warming is thickening the ice in Antarctica, then one effect of warming is to mitigate potential sea level rise.
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GOOD HOLY CHRIST!
How is it that groups like CEI can keep claiming that everyone else is "spinning the truth" to scare the people, and then insinuate that a fairly objective group like factcheck.org are fear-mongering spin-doctors.

My favorite line:
"Our ad did not deny that global warming is happening."

Technically, I suppose they're right. I also suppose that CEI never did say that. I guess I have also no choice but to grant that CEI was not even trying to insinuate that global warming isn't happening.
I guess I am also forced to accept the fact that yes, based on their ads, CEI's "implication" that global warming is not happening was entirely a figment of my own imagination and that CEI, in NO WAY was trying to mislead people in their ad.

So I guess I just made an erroneous assessment. Certainly very few people, if any would come to the same erroneous assumption that I came to from CEI's ad. Right? It's just me and maybe a few others, right?

I MUST MUST MUST learn to quit making assumptions about what people are saying, or RATHER what they're NOT implying.