Business Ads on Global Warming: Disinformation
Thursday May 25, 2006
An analysis of the Science articles referenced in a series of ads on global warming shows that they misrepresent the research that purports to support their claims. The ads are part of a 14 city campaign launched by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI).
Moreover, editors at Science and reseachers whose work has been purloined are crying "Foul!" over the sleight-of-hand.
Moreover, editors at Science and reseachers whose work has been purloined are crying "Foul!" over the sleight-of-hand.
"These television ads are a deliberate effort to confuse and mislead the public about the global warming debate," according to Curt Davis, director of the Center for Geospatial Intelligence at the University of Missouri-Columbia.CEI issued a statement in response to the criticism.
"The text of the CEI ad misrepresents the conclusions of the two cited Science papers and our current state of knowledge by selective referencing," said Dr. Brooks Hanson, deputy editor, physical sciences, Science.
I'd say "go read the articles yourself," except that Science has these two behind a firewall -- so you'll need to go to your local library. Perhaps Science will decide it's in the public interest to move these two articles out of the "pay to view" portion of their website.
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As I read and hear stories about so called globial warming. I belive that Al Gore is wrong, the Earth is just going through a cycle change or its updating it self.( jus like your computer updates ) people need to look at data and determing for themselves.Stop listen to all of the Al’s and Green’s and jugy for themselves the Data.
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de, you’re right, but the Earth is indeed warming at an alarming rate. Faster than usual in the past 200,000 years according to carbon dioxide samples from Antartica. Periodically the planet warms and cools as it slowly changes its orbit around the sun. But in the past 100 years, roughly around the time humans began burning fossil fules, there has been an increase of carbon dioxide and other green house gasess in Earth’s natural climate shifts. Even as Earth cools, it is still hotter today than it was the last time the Earth cooled. Though I can’t give you a link to the graph I saw depicting this, you must admit it is hotter during October than it was 13 years ago. I remember having to make sure my Halloween costume kept me warm at night, but last year I was able to go out in shorts as I walked my little brother throught the neighborhood.