Liberal Media giants lavish praise on the former
Clinton VP Al Gore for his Nobel Peace Prize for the documentary "An Inconvenient
Truth" The British government decided that it would be a good idea to send copies of
Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth to all schools. A British parent claimed showing the
film in schools was tantamount to "brainwashing" and sued in court.
The British court ruled that the very film his nomination is based on is a piece
of political propaganda bursting with blatant falsehoods. In order for the film to be
shown, the Government must first amend their Guidance Notes to Teachers to make clear that
:
A.) The Film is a political work and promotes only one side of the argument.
B.) 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.
C.) Eleven inaccuracies have to be specifically drawn to the attention of school children.
1.) 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.
2.) 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.
3.) 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.
4.) 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.
5.) 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.
6.) 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.
7.) The film blames global warming for species losses including coral reef bleaching. The
Government could not find any evidence to support this claim.
8.) 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.
9.) The film suggests that the Antarctic ice covering is melting, the evidence was that it
is in fact increasing.
10.) 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.
11.) 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.
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