Court Identifies Eleven Inaccuracies in Al Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient Truth’

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Here's something American media are virtually guaranteed to not report: a British court has determined that Al Gore's schlockumentary "An Inconvenient Truth" contains at least eleven material falsehoods.

 

It seems a safe bet Matt Lauer and Diane Sawyer won't be discussing this Tuesday morning, wouldn't you agree?

 

For those that haven't been following this case, 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.

 

How marvelous. And 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.

 

Al Gore....

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you're off message--even George Bush believes in Global Warming now

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Al Gore.... :banana:

 

Yeah, but stock in his carbon offsets company has done REALLY well since this movie came out......

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Excellent. Now, if you could jsut forward this to that massive swath of ice @ the polar cap that isn't there anymore and ask it to un-melt itself, everything will be just fine.

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* 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.

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you're off message--even George Bush believes in Global Warming now

Off message??? I hate Bush and if he believes in this BS, that is just one more reason to hate the incompetent one known as G Dubya.

 

I DO NOT LIKE BUSH!!!!! He is one of the worst POTUS we have ever had.

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Excellent. Now, if you could jsut forward this to that massive swath of ice @ the polar cap that isn't there anymore and ask it to un-melt itself, everything will be just fine.

In the 70's, all the rage was that that polar ice cap was getting way to big.

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We all know that we should trust laweyers to tell us what is good science and what isn't. Good catch GC!

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In the 70's, all the rage was that that polar ice cap was getting way to big.

 

What does that have to do with the price of cheese in Wisconsin? At one point, everybody was pretty frickin sure that the sun revolved around us and that the earth was flat too. When we can traverse the Northern Passage for the first time in a gazillion years, it's pretty obvious something's up. You're just like all the other Kryptonians. Jor-El was the only one who saw it coming. But did they listen to him? NOOOOOOO..........

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We all know that we should trust laweyers to tell us what is good science and what isn't. Good catch GC!

 

It took a lawyer to expose how great those scientists were. idiot.

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What does that have to do with the price of cheese in Wisconsin? At one point, everybody was pretty frickin sure that the sun revolved around us and that the earth was flat too. When we can traverse the Northern Passage for the first time in a gazillion years, it's pretty obvious something's up. You're just like all the other Kryptonians. Jor-El was the only one who saw it coming. But did they listen to him? NOOOOOOO..........

I was just a baby when dad made that prediction

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I was just a baby when dad made that prediction

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So, if there were 11 items that were untrue or unsubstantiated, how many were true? I would imagine that in a couple of hours, they must have raised more than those 11 points. I have not seen the movie, but I would expect that those 11 points might take maybe 11 minutes max. Right?

 

So how many items were substantiated enough for the court to allow it to be part of the curriculum, which it now is?

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So, if there were 11 items that were untrue or unsubstantiated, how many were true? I would imagine that in a couple of hours, they must have raised more than those 11 points. I have not seen the movie, but I would expect that those 11 points might take maybe 11 minutes max. Right?

 

So how many items were substantiated enough for the court to allow it to be part of the curriculum, which it now is?

 

The "film" made one more point....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

...it's all Bush's fault.