Thank You for Global Warming

In true ‘Thank You for Smoking’ spirit, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (pronounced: patron saint of indefensible industry causes) has released a series of 60-second spots talking about the “alleged global warming crisis.”

While we do pity the ad guys who had to write the copy for this nonsense, lines like,
“The Antarctic ice sheet is getting thicker….did you see any big headlines about that?” and the money line, “They call it pollution, we call it life” probably couldn’t be funnier if Steven Colbert had narrated them.

Besides being unintentionally hilarious, the spots don’t really try to make a point other than to introduce the vague idea that maybe carbon has an upside and just maybe all those book nerds at the Union of Concerned Scientists are wrong.

Sorry CEI, but we call it pathetic.