And you thought Hostel was scary
Modern masters of horror like Rob Zombie and Eli Roth could learn a thing or two from the Competitive Enterprise Institute. The anti-environment think tank has produced two short pieces of film so frightening, they made me vomit in terror.
The first, "Energy," posits that without pollution, little girls couldn't pick daisies, or something like that. It ends with the line, "Carbon dioxide. They call it pollution. We call it life."
The second, "Glaciers," claims that arctic glaciers are thickening, not melting. It is based on a study by Curt Davis of the University of Missouri. Davis has publicly bashed the ad. He told The New Republic:
These television ads are a deliberate effort to confuse and mislead the public about the global warming debate. They are selectively using only parts of my previous research to support their claims.
TNR explained Davis' research:
Global warming is melting sea ice and the coastal areas of Antarctica at an alarming rate, which in turn has increased precipitation, thus thickening the ice in the interior. In other words, the melting coasts are making it snow more in the middle.
CEI's ads are based on complete fiction. But then, a lot of great horror films are.
The first, "Energy," posits that without pollution, little girls couldn't pick daisies, or something like that. It ends with the line, "Carbon dioxide. They call it pollution. We call it life."
The second, "Glaciers," claims that arctic glaciers are thickening, not melting. It is based on a study by Curt Davis of the University of Missouri. Davis has publicly bashed the ad. He told The New Republic:
These television ads are a deliberate effort to confuse and mislead the public about the global warming debate. They are selectively using only parts of my previous research to support their claims.
TNR explained Davis' research:
Global warming is melting sea ice and the coastal areas of Antarctica at an alarming rate, which in turn has increased precipitation, thus thickening the ice in the interior. In other words, the melting coasts are making it snow more in the middle.
CEI's ads are based on complete fiction. But then, a lot of great horror films are.
1 Comments:
I do love that quote though. More to come from them, such as:
"Koolaid: They call it sugar, we call it life."
"Charlton Heston: They call him an actor, we call him God"
"Clean air: They call it lifesaving, we call it overpriced"
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