As you're already aware, Al Gore's new movie on climate change, An Inconvenient Truth, is being released this week. It should come as no surprise that it's bringing the wingnuts out of the woodwork.

A few weeks ago I did an interview with Gore about the movie. He shared some insights on how it was made and the strategies he uses to get past people's ignorance and apathy. Last week, the Cato Institute's Patrick Michaels appeared on FOX's Hannity & That Other Guy. He lifted a quote from the interview out of context, twisted its meaning, and used it to smear Gore. I wrote to FOX and Michaels to correct the record. (See also Media Matters and News Hounds.) Suffice to say, Michaels has not retracted or apologized.

That was merely dishonest. For a layer of parody-defying hilarity on top of the dishonesty, check out the new ads from the Competitive Enterprise Institute, an industry-funded "think" tank. They honestly look like something straight out of Saturday Night Live. Tag line: "Carbon dioxide. They call it pollution. We call it life."

Seriously.

(Check Sphere for more reaction to the ads.)

And finally, for readers who would like to see the slideshow on which Gore's movie is based (way more interesting than it sounds!), I tell them where to find video of it here.

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