Planet Hot

Another day, another silly photo of a gorgeous girl trying to sit in this chair. This time it's a breathtakingly beautiful pro, Gisele Bundchen (nsfw), but even she looks uncomfortable slouching in that thing. Lucy Pinder and Joanne Krupa pulled it off better, I think. Of course, it helped that they didn't have all those clothes in the way.

Anyhoo, today's blue ribbon for idiocy goes to the Competitive Enterprise Institute, an energy industry backed "non-profit" that has rolled out an ad campaign with television commercials airing in several states designed to deny that global warming is a problem. Their slogan: "Carbon Dioxide - They Call It Pollution; We Call It Life."

Yep, that's their slogan. I shit you not.

Even more deliciously dumbass are their ads, which they host on their site:

(Pics link to High-res WMV movies. If you need lower res or Quicktime format, click here.)

Ad #1, "Energy" paints CO2 as a crucial human resource that politicians in Washington want to take away from us. Oh god, what will I do when my CO2 is gone?!

Ad #2, "Glaciers" says that global warming isn't even happening at all, and the media is fearmongering. As "proof," CEI cites a study that the Greenland glaciers are growing and not shrinking, and that the Antarctic ice sheet is getting thicker, not thinner. The only problem here is what the study featured in the commercial actually says: that the thickening is due to the increases snow falling at higher elevations, which is actually due to global warming. If you don't believe me on this one, check out the paper they misread here.


And finally, in Ad #3 "Al Gore: An Inconvenient Story" CEI trots out the tired propoganda that Al Gore is a huge polluter for traveling across the world to promote An Inconvient Truth:

Of course, what they fail to mention is that Gore buys carbon credits to keep himself carbon neutral. To find out more about carbon credits, click here.

To sound just as pithy as them, I give you my quote: "The Competitive Enterprise Institute: full of hot air."