He hasn't even said he is running again, but the attack ads on Al Gore have already started, claims the political blog Think Progress. In two 60-second TV spots that premiered Wednesday, the
Competitive Enterprise Institute goes after "alarmist" reports on global warming, maintaining that its existence is a matter of dispute. Taglined "Carbon dioxide: They call it pollution, we call it
life," the ads will run in more than a dozen cities and are being released just a week before the opening of "An Inconvenient Truth," the former vice president's documentary on climate change. CEI has
gotten millions of dollars in contributions from the oil industry; as Think Progress says, "Al Gore's film exposing the truth is perceived as a threat, and they have no shortage of funds to try to
distort it."
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