guardian.co.uk - 9/29/2009
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A TV advert paid for by an oil industry lobbyist telling Americans "more CO2 results in a greener earth" would be almost funny if it weren't so depressing "Is this a joke?" splutters one of the comments underneath the YouTube video of a new 30-second TV advert that has started being aired in a ...
care2.com - 9/30/2009
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care2.com —
Look at the happy elk and blossoming flowers,
thriving in the elevated carbon dioxide levels! Tremble as
our jobs are threatened by, um, well, by something!A new ad campaign promises to alert the unsuspecting American public to a major boondoggle: gl...
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Relax, CO2 is Good for You!
newsweek.com - 9/26/2009
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newsweek.com —
You might think a little global warming is
good for farming. Longer, warmer growing seasons and more
carbon dioxide (CO2)—what plant wouldn't love that? The agricultural industry basically takes that stance. But global warming's effects on agriculture ...
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How Climate Change Will Affect Farms | Newsweek Science
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CO2 Is Green, Because We All Need CO2
Triple Pundit: People, Planet, Profit —
... touting CO2 as “life”. Well, here we go again: It’s pretty amazing that people would spend their hard earned money producing videos like the one above. In this case it’s Houston gas man H. Leighton Steward messing with the minds of voters in Montana and New Mexico. The idea: To derail any climate change legislation currently in the Senate. As usual, these things would be funny if you saw them in the Onion, or in a ...
The Bangkok Climate Summit and Big Oil Disinformation
FUTURISM NOW —
... are so uninformed about climate change, and so confused. Campaigns like this are part of the reason. Some of these anti-truth campaigns and actions are overt and some of them are very sneaky, like paying people to comment on websites and even on blogs. So I hope they are discussing how to combat misinformation campaigns at the Bangkok talks. It might not be a big problem in the rest of the world but the U.S. has a huge problem with this type of thing happening. According to the Guardian : So who’s behind “CO2 is green” and this advert? One of its founders is ...
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