Another Dead Canary

It’s a Saturday and I don’t feel like doing any heavy lifting. Instead, I’m hoping I can make a point with the three video clips below.

The first is a piece by the American News Project that explains how Big Oil has borrowed a page out Big Tobacco’s playbook — use junk science and slick marketing to stir doubt and uncertainty about real, credible scientific research.

The second clip is a Colbert Nation spoof on the greenwashing fed to the American public by the oil companies. As Stephen Colbert says, “A lot of people talk about loving the earth but how many of them actually penetrate it?”

The third is an ad titled, “Repower America,” created by Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection.  ABC refused to run the ad because it considered it too “controversial.” Why? Is it because ABC doesn’t want to offend its other clients — the ones who give the network millions to help Americans feel all warm and cozy about oil and coal? You can ask ABC yourself by clicking here.