Re: OT: a rare outbreak of sanity wrt 'global warming'. Judge rules "Inconvenient Truth" is untruthful
- From: PeteS <axkz70@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:51:45 -0400
Eeyore wrote:
Government forced to work overtime on Al Gore "health warning"
A High Court judge has demanded that the guidelines which were produced to
accompany the Al Gore film, An Inconvenient Truth, to all 3,850 English
secondary schools be revised and distributed in hard copy rather than by the
internet. Civil servants were drafted in to carry out the work over the weekend
in time for the case reconvening today Monday at 14.00hrs. However, it is
unclear how tougher guidance can remedy at least 20 factual inaccuracies and
exaggerations and it is becoming increasingly unlikely that the film will ever
be shown as intended.
The application for a judicial review has been brought by a New Party member and
school governor, Stewart Dimmock. It commenced in the High Court on Thursday,
run through into Friday and it is expected that a judgement will be handed down
tomorrow, Tuesday. Mr Justice Burton has already overturned the guillotine
imposed by a previous judge who refused permission for a judicial review "on the
papers" and said that the oral application should be restricted to one day with
no more than two hours granted to Mr Dimmock's legal team.
Stewart Dimmock commented: "The judge has treated us very fairly, however, I
think my lawyer, Paul Downes, got it spot on when he said that the film was
irredeemable and should never have been sent to schools in the first place. It
is clearly ludicrous and unfair to expect hard working teachers to spend hours
going through detailed briefing notes ahead of each showing of this film."
During the hearing Mr Dimmock's lawyer claimed that the film was "50% political
30% science and 20% sentimental mush, the mush being designed along with the
alarmist exaggeration, to persuade the viewer into accepting Gore's political
viewpoint."
The New Party has received many emails in support of the legal challenge
including some from teachers and a number from overseas. A campaign website
www.straightteaching.com has also received pledges of cash support.
http://newparty.co.uk/news/october2007/government-works-overtime-on-gore-film.html
Monday, October 08, 2007 at 10:52am
A British judge rules that Al Gore told a string of untruths in An Inconvenient
Truth and children should be warned:
In order for the film to be shown, the Government must first amend their
Guidance Notes to Teachers to make clear that ... (e)leven inaccuracies have to
be specifically drawn to the attention of school children.
The inaccuracies are:
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.
The new Guidance Notes, very grudgingly amended, are here
http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/sustainableschools/upload/CC%20Final%20guidance%204oct.pdf
Would that even this small gesture was matched by Australian schools.
This isn’t the first time, of course, that global warming scaremongerers have
been dismissed by a court in which evidence still counts.
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/judge_rules_children_be_warned_against_11_of_gores_untruths
Interesting, and astounding that someone (supposedly uneducated according to certain [il]literati around here) found factual errors (you know; lies) in a politically motivated movie. It's junk science at it's worst.
I've challenged a number of the global warming crowd to provide real scientific evidence and it's always lacking.
I do not rule out that we are adding to global warming; I challenge how much.
Cheers
PeteS
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