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Court Finds Truths Inconvenient for GoreIain Murray
October 10, 2007
http://www.globalwarming.org/node/1143
The British government decided that it would be a good idea to send copies
of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth to all schools, with then Environment
Secretary (now Foreign Secretary) David Miliband declaring that "the debate
over science is over." Well, it may be, but not in the way Gore portrays it.
A truck driver and school governor, Stuart Dimmock, took the government to
court, alleging that the film portrays "partisan political views," the
promotion of which is illegal in schools under the Education Act 1996.
The judge has decided that this is indeed the case and that the Government's
guidance notes that accompanied the film exacerbated the problem. For the
film to be shown in schools, therefore, several facts would have to be drawn
to students' attention:
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.
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