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Audacity of Truth
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Goracle challenged once again on “Inconvenient Truth” claims
Via Fox News:
[...] Al Gore’s award-winning global warming film “An Inconvenient Truth,” socked two years ago by a British court ruling that found several errors, is facing additional scrutiny with the release of a new documentary that seeks to rebut many of Gore’s claims.
Buoyed by the ruling, two Irish journalists — Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney — released a documentary in which they gather evidence outlining the damage of global warming hysteria. In “Not Evil Just Wrong,” they challenge the claims made in Gore’s film and conclude that the film is not worth screening in schools because it is shown there as “an article of science, not faith.”
“I wouldn’t like our documentary to have nine significant errors and if it did, I certainly wouldn’t be showing it to school children across America, and that’s the important thing,” McAleer told Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Friday.
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[Gore's] film went on to win Academy Awards for Gore and Guggenheim and to re-energize the environmental movement.
But in 2007, a British High Court judge ruled that Gore’s film contained nine significant errors and should no longer be screened in schools unless accompanied by guidance notes to balance Gore’s “one-sided” views.
The film’s “apocalyptic vision” was not an impartial analysis of climate change, High Court Judge Michael Burton said, adding that the film is “substantially founded up scientific research and fact” but that the errors were made in “the context of alarmism and exaggeration.”
Just last month, McAleer publicly confronted Gore in an contentious exchange at an environmental journalist conference, where Gore was the keynote speaker and took questions from the audience.
When asked by McAleer whether he would do anything to correct the errors found by the British court, Gore said he wouldn’t go through each of the errors but added that the ruling was in favor of screening the film in schools.
“There’s been such a long discussion of each one of those specific things,” he said. “One of them for example was that polar bears really aren’t endangered. Well polar bears didn’t get that word.” The audience laughed.
Phelim countered that the number of polar bears has increased and is increasing.
“You don’t think they’re endangered?” Gore asked.
“The number has increased,” McAleer repeated, prompting the same question from Gore. “If the number of polar bears has increased, surely they’re not in danger.”
Before McAleer could say anything else, he was interrupted by environmental journalists who said it wasn’t a debate and shut off his microphone.
You can watch the full Fox interview here.
For much more on the revealing CRU emails/documents controversy, click here.
Cross-posted to Right Wing News, where I am helping guestblog for John Hawkins on Sundays.
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the goracle should be in jail for fraud.
Can we get a second opinion on the first part?
Aw, come on and give the arrogant blowhard a break. He’s a flaming radical liberal with a big cash cow. They are allowed to say anything they wish and claim it as the truth and as a mandate to enact ridiculous new big government laws and taxes and other blowhard liberals in this country and elsewhere are allowed to gobble that up and give them various awards and acolades for it. Truth is relative for Socialists.
He is evil.
MMGW is nothing more than an extension of local and regional land use laws – it’s all for the “greater good”.
And since people nationwide have peacefully gone to slaughter over that issue, it’s just that much easier to get them to accept responsibility for all that crap on a global scale.
Just like almost anything that is argued in Congress anymore, I’d sure like to know where the authority to do anything in the name of global warming (or health care or social security or abortion etc. etc. etc.) comes from the Constitution?
Who knows what’s next. Maybe they’ll make it legal for the government to steal private property and give it to someone else!
Well Here in PA we just had a little incident at Three Mile Island…nothing to be too concerned about. It happened when the reactors were down for maintenance, I think. But the interesting side bar is how the press has responded to it. Remember back during the China Syndrome days at TMI where the first major nuclear mishap occurred how the press piled on and basically shut down the building and planning of nuclear plants here in the US….by comparison this was covered closely by local TV and news, but barely a whisper by the national media. I don’t think this would have happened if it wasn’t for the greenies who, even tho a bit stand-offish about nuclear power, are now looking at the bigger picture. I wonder how much Algore has invested in major utility projects…I’ll be GE has a few components that they make for that industry.
As is the old liberal mantra….say something enough and people begin to believe it’s the truth. So if they just keep talking about global warming/climate change there has to be some truth in it, right? As anyone one knows even a lie has a grain of truth in it somewhere.