Oil Industry Front Group Releases Misleading Ads About Carbon Dioxide

This entry was posted by Josh Friday, 25 September, 2009

Union of Concerned Scientists:

An article in today’s Washington Post exposed the coal and oil industry interests behind recent anti-climate-change advertisements.

In a “smoking is good for you” twist on reality, the ads actually call for higher levels of carbon dioxide, the primary heat-trapping gas driving global warming. The Competitive Enterprise Institute, an industry-funded libertarian think tank, released similar ads last year.

Here is one of the ads: