The document film "An Inconvenient Truth" received a lot of attention and attracted huge audiences when it was released in May 2006. The film argues that global warming caused by industrial pollution is slowly altering the Earth's climate and melting the polar ice caps, and will eventually flood major cities and leave the planet uninhabitable.
But shortly after the movie came out, "public service" commercials began appearing on TV, calling global warming a myth and claiming that carbon dioxide - a byproduct of undustrial pollution and automobile emissions (and the "villain" of the movie) - is actually not a pollutant at all, because "plants breathe it." They went on to say that industrial waste is not only harmless, it's essential to life.
So who made the "public service" ads? A think tank called the Competitive Enterprise Institute, whose member are almost exclusively oil and automobile companise, including Exxon, Arco, Ford, Texaco, and general Motors...
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