TV ad blitz targets Gore, warming ‘alarmists’

From MSNBC.com:

A little girl blows away dandelion fluff as an announcer says, “Carbon dioxide: they call it pollution; we call it life,” in a new ad campaign targeting global warming “alarmists” — especially Al Gore.

The television ads, which will air in 14 U.S. cities through May 28, are part of a campaign by the conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute to counter a media spotlight on threats posed by worldwide climate change.

The spots are timed to precede next week’s theatrical release of “An Inconvenient Truth,” a documentary film on global warming that features Gore, the former vice president and Democratic presidential candidate.

Against backdrops of a park, a beach and a forest, one ad celebrates the benefits of greenhouse gas-producing fuels.

“The fuels that produce CO2 (carbon dioxide) have freed us from a world of back-breaking labor, lighting up our lives, allowing us to create and move the things we need, the people we love,” the ad runs. “Now some politicians want to label carbon dioxide a pollutant. Imagine if they succeed — what would our lives be like then?”

I'm at a loss for words as to how to reply to something like this given the ovelwhelming scientific evidence that global warming poses a very real threat to our planet. Stealing a famous quote from John McEnroe the only thing that comes to mind is you cannot be serious.