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[BlackNite U.S. ARMY R.O.T.C.]

Inaccuracies in Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth

The decision by the government to distribute Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth has been the subject of a legal action by New Party member Stewart Dimmock.  Although a full ruling has yet to be given, the Court found that the film was misleading in 11 respects and that the Guidance Notes drafted by the Education Secretary’s advisors served only to exacerbate the political propaganda in the film.

In order for the film to be shown, the Government must first amend their Guidance Notes to Teachers to make clear that 1.) The Film is a political work and promotes only one side of the argument. 2.) If teachers present the Film without making this plain they may be in breach of section 406 of the Education Act 1996 and guilty of political indoctrination. 3.) Eleven inaccuracies have to be specifically drawn to the attention of school children.

The inaccuracies are:

    * The film claims that melting snows on Mount Kilimanjaro evidence global warming.  The Government’s expert was forced to concede that this is not correct.
    * The film suggests that evidence from ice cores proves that rising CO2 causes temperature increases over 650,000 years.  The Court found that the film was misleading: over that period the rises in CO2 lagged behind the temperature rises by 800-2000 years.
    * The film uses emotive images of Hurricane Katrina and suggests that this has been caused by global warming.  The Government’s expert had to accept that it was “not possible” to attribute one-off events to global warming.
    * The film shows the drying up of Lake Chad and claims that this was caused by global warming.  The Government’s expert had to accept that this was not the case.
    * The film claims that a study showed that polar bears had drowned due to disappearing arctic ice.  It turned out that Mr Gore had misread the study: in fact four polar bears drowned and this was because of a particularly violent storm.
    * The film threatens that global warming could stop the Gulf Stream throwing Europe into an ice age: the Claimant’s evidence was that this was a scientific impossibility.
    * The film blames global warming for species losses including coral reef bleaching.  The Government could not find any evidence to support this claim.
    * The film suggests that the Greenland ice covering could melt causing sea levels to rise dangerously.  The evidence is that Greenland will not melt for millennia.
    * The film suggests that the Antarctic ice covering is melting, the evidence was that it is in fact increasing.
    * The film suggests that sea levels could rise by 7m causing the displacement of millions of people. In fact the evidence is that sea levels are expected to rise by about 40cm over the next hundred years and that there is no such threat of massive migration.
    * The film claims that rising sea levels has caused the evacuation of certain Pacific islands to New Zealand.  The Government are unable to substantiate this and the Court observed that this appears to be a false claim.



can someone just please kill this loser? im tired of hearing his lies and his annoying voice

[Tru.]

While you may not agree with him, it is still America.  And last time I checked, real Americans don't assassinate those expressing free speech.

For the record, I disagree with Gore as well.

[BlackNite U.S. ARMY R.O.T.C.]

ya i kno. but still this guy is just lying to the american people blatantly

[J0k3R.]

And the government in place at the moment isnt?

[BlackNite U.S. ARMY R.O.T.C.]

ya still thought gore is a dumbass

[Chaos]

what did u expect?

[Jeff]

The movie is a glorified power point presentation...dont know why anyone actually watched it...not counting his lies

[BlackNite U.S. ARMY R.O.T.C.]

we watched it in Spanish last year for all of the 1st 5 minutes

[Jeff]

power point presentation made into a feature film with Spanish voice overs.....im impressed you made it 5 minutes lol

[Surge]

What IS the Truth but the LIES we ALL agree on...................





profound eh?

 

[J0k3R.]

^ Very.

[Jeff]

Or to quote george from Seinfeld, "Its not a lie if you believe it"

[RonToland]

Check your facts, Crossfire:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2189279,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/oct/11/climatechange

Summary explanation:

This case rose from a challenge by a school governor to the British government's directive that An Inconvenient Truth be shown in all secondary schools in the UK.  The school governor's case was financed by a Scottish quarrier with ties to anti-environmental lobbies.  This is not a case of a little guy standing up for the truth, but a little guy backed by corporate money to try to silence discussion of climate change.

The judge ruled that An Inconvenient Truth (for which Gore has recently won the Nobel Peace Prize, btw) contained nine factual mistakes, but that its four basic premises were sound, and the film itself *should* be shown in schools.  So the school director *lost* the case, and Gore's film was vindicated in spite of some minor errors.  Also, if you read the first article I linked to above, you'll see that the judge got the science wrong on a couple of points.

Scientific fact isn't decided by laws or politics.  Science is set by scientific consensus, and the consensus is that the Earth's climate is changing because of our actions, and changing for the worse.

[Jeff]

global warming and global climate change resulting from humans is still a theory and therefore can not be proven. If it can not be proven than there is no real reason to believe that it is true or possible.

[RonToland]

global warming and global climate change resulting from humans is still a theory and therefore can not be proven. If it can not be proven than there is no real reason to believe that it is true or possible.

Would you say the same thing about gravity?  Technically, gravity is just a theory that cannot be proven.  Do you believe in gravity?

It's true that science can never "prove" anything.  But some things have amassed enough evidence for us to call them true: gravity, optics, electricity, evolution and climate change.  We still debate the ultimate nature of gravity, but no one doubts that gravity is real.  We still debate the extent and speed with which climate change is occurring, but no working climatologist doubts that the Earth's climate is changing, and that humans are responsible for a good deal of it.