The Competitive Enterprise Institute has launched a national advertising campaign, focusing on the threat to affordable energy posed by Al Gore’s global warming agenda. The ads contrast Gore’s energy-consuming lifestyle with the life-and-death need for energy in developing countries.CEI’s new campaign comes in the face of Gore’s March 1st announcement of a major new set of ads from his Alliance for Climate Protection to promote the global warming issue. CEI’s response includes both a broadcast television ad and related online video.

“Global warming activists warn us about the alleged threats from global warming, but are usually silent about the much more immediate threats from global warming policies,” said CEI General Counsel Sam Kazman, also the ad co-creator. “Restricting access to affordable energy is a sure recipe for increasing poverty, disease and human misery around the world.”

The broadcast ad premiered this morning at a press conference at the National Press Club, and will run in markets around the country over the next two weeks, including Boston, Phoenix, Orlando and Pittsburgh. The ad will also be running in the Washington, D.C. market on cable news programs on CNN, CNBC and Fox News Channel.

CEI previously stirred international controversy in 2006 with a pair of CEI ads on global warming alarmism, which carried the tagline “CO2: They Call It Pollution; We Call It Life.”

View the 2008 Gore ad campaign

Cooler Heads Videos

Skeptics Speak Out: Dr. Howard Hayden, Professor Emeritus of Physics, Univ. of Conn.

CEI’s national ad, “Lightbulbs”

Hot Air: The Hypocrisy and Cost of Global Warming Regulation

<!–

–>

Cooler Heads Blog

Subversive Developments in Bangkok

April 2, 2008

| Myron Ebell

The leader of the G-77 in the Bangkok talks has stinked up the place by insisting that the parties that undertook solemn commitments in the Kyoto Protocol to reduce their emissions should actually be required to meet their solemn commitments as a condition of further negotiations.

• Add new comment
• Read more

Who Needs an Economics Lesson?

April 1, 2008

| Paul Chesser, Climate Strategies Watch

A recent opportunity in Minnesota, almost entirely ignored, demonstrates how little the members of these state climate commissions care about costs of their proposals they produce. According to one Burnsville businessman, who served on the Minnesota Climate Change Advisory Group, his colleagues were given the chance to meet with Dr. Margo Thorning of the American Council for Capital Formation for dinner, when she was in the Twin Cities recently.

• Add new comment
• Read more

Capital Research on Center for Climate Strategies

April 1, 2008

| Paul Chesser, Climate Strategies Watch

The Capital Research Center has just published its latest Organization Trends report, which focuses on the Center for Climate Strategies. Reviewers like me say it is “must reading,” “compelling,” and that they “couldn’t put it down.”

• Add new comment
• Read more

» more blogs

<!–

June 22, 2007 11:21 AM

U.N.: No ‘natural’ disasters?

The United Nations is trying to blame natural disasters on, of all things, people. President Bush, however, is standing in its way. President Bush, however, is standing in its way… [more]

» more blogs

–>

What are the costs and benefits, risks and trade-offs of a warming world and the policies aimed at preventing it?

What are people saying about global warming, at home and abroad, locally and nationally?

What do scientists really say about global warming? Is the science as robust as it is made out?