Now everybody do the propaganda

As I've mentioned at various times previously, there's been an increasing number of scientific studies being published reporting the mounting evidence of human-activity-caused global warming in the past year: collapsing ice shelves in Antarctica, quickening glacial melts in Greenland, dramatic retreat of polar sea ice, slackening North Atlantic Current just as the computer models predicted, massive temperature-related bleachings of coral reefs, hard evidence that the 1990s were the warmest decade globally in more than a millennium, increased global river flow not due to an increase in rainfall but due to plants' response to higher carbon dioxide concentrations, faster than predicted sea level raise, ice-core data indicating 30% higher CO2 concentrations now than at any time in the last 650,000 years, etc., etc. Even backyard observers are finding it difficult to deny when the spring thaw arrives earlier each year, and bugs and plants normally seen in southern habitats are working their way northwards, overwintering in places they had never been seen before.

Amidst all of this, then, we finally have the following, brought to us by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a "public policy organization" funded in part by Exxon Mobil, among others, which holds that the free market alone will settle on what's best for the indivdual: We call it Life (WMV; Quicktime). Yes friends, it's a commercial airing in 14 US cities extolling the virtues of the much-maligned air we breathe out: Carbon Dioxide. I shit you not.