Court Identifies Eleven Inaccuracies in Al Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient Truth’
By Noel Shephard from Newsbusters:
A British truck driver filed a lawsuit to prevent the airing of Gore’s alarmist detritus in England’s public schools.
According to the website of the political party the plaintiff, Stewart Dimmock, belongs to (ecstatic emphasis added throughout, h/t Marc Morano):
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.
What are those inaccuracies?
- 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.
In the end, a climate change skeptic in the States must hope that an American truck driver files such a lawsuit here so that a U.S. judge can make similar determinations.
Of course, even if one could find such an impartial jurist, our media wouldn’t find it newsworthy, would they?
The blog WILLisms, posts on this as well: Trivia Tidbit Of The Day: Part 454 — Air Quality & Global Warming.
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October 11th, 2007 at 1:29 pm
You failed to mention that the judge quite clearly expressed that the movie won’t be banned from schools, as Dimmock demanded, because the detected errors were minor in nature and that the movie contains four main messages that are very well and truthfully documented: That climate change is made by man, that temperatures will rise further, that the climate change will have bad consequences and that it is possible for governments and individuals to do something about it.
October 11th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
Infidel, dude I did not write the story, as it states it was written by Newsbusters, not Snoop I’m just passing on, remember I’m biased, and I did not post the article to try and convince myself of anything, I think “global warming” is a complete and utter fraud, period. Man and in particular the Unites States is not dramatically affecting the environment and therefore dooming mother earth for imminent destruction as the Nazi environmentalist claim. Only the grossly uninformed and willingly blinded believe it. Anyone who is honest and who is paying attention to both side of the issue would concede that yes, keep our water and air clean, don’t dump shit in our seas, cut back on the use of chemicals, and protect our forests, yes be good environmental stewards, but there is no GLOBAL WARMING CRISIS!
Only greedy ass academics and fraudulent higher education institutions wanting to line their pockets with research dollars, lawyers salivating at the possibilities of “global warming” lawsuits, enterprising capitalists eager to start “Global Warming” companies and market the concept taking advantage of the clueless and easily manipulated by coming up with silly bullshit like “carbon credits” and manipulating people into buying hybrid cars, paying thousands of dollars more for a piece of shit car not realizing that it takes YEARS recoup the energy saving benefits of such automobiles.
Jesus people it’s a scam, and unless someone can come here and reply with specifics, and substantial and competent data and proof why bother.