Heartland ads a last gasp for climate deniers?

This week’s newspaper ad campaign by the Heartland Institute is a last gasp in the losing efforts of climate-change skeptics, argues Mitchell Anderson of DeSmogBlog.

Let’s hope so, but I’ll only believe it when I see it.

Heartland is among the most prominent in a herd of “free-market” think tanks — often funded by the fossil fuel industry — that’s peddled the argument that there’s no scientific consensus on climate change.

Today, the organization wraps up three straight days of full page ads in the Washington Post in which it claims, among other things, that “politicians, environmental advocacy groups, and the media routinely ignore and silence the scientists, economists, and other experts who say global warming isn’t a crisis.”

The ads are designed to influence debate while Congress considers the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill. If they were all you read this week, you’d think that recent studies had poked holes in climate change science. Read more

Clean Coal’s ad campaign makes creators proud

The ad campaign that’s fallen thick and heavy on TV airwaves with images of President Obama endorsing “clean coal” may shoot noxious fumes out of the ears and eyeballs of environmentalists. But it sure does give the ad agency responsible something to boast about.

The anti-greenwashing DeSmogBlog notes that R&R Advertising and Persuasion, which devised the campaign for the coal industry’s “American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity,” is holding it up as great example of the Vegas-based agency’s talents: Read more