did you know the 9 errors to gore's inconvenient truth?

Question

9 Errors to Inconvenient truth

1 Error: Mr. Gore asserted that a sea level rise of up to 20 feet would be casued by melting of ice sheets “in the near future”
JUDGE: “This is distinctly alarmist:, and will only occur after, and over, millennia.”
2 Error: Low-lying pacific atolls have already been evacuated.
JUDGE: There was no evidence of any evacuation having yet happened.
3 Error: The Gulf Stream, that warms up the Atlantic, would shut down.
JUDGE: It was “very unlikely” it would shut down in the future, though it might slow down
4: Error: Graphs showing a rise in CO2 and the rise in temperature over a period of 650,000 years showed “an exact fit.”
JUDGE: There was a connection, but “the two graphs do not establish what Mr. Gore asserts”.
5 Error: The disappearance of snow on Mt. Kilimanjaro was due to global warming.
JUDGE: It cannot be established that the recession of snows on Mt. Kilimanjaro is mainly attributed to human induced climate change.
6 Error: The drying up of Lake Chad is a prime example of a catastrophic result of global warming.
JUDGE: Insufficient to establish the exact cause.
7 Error: Hurricane Katrina blamed on global warming
JUDGE: There was insufficient evidence to support that.
8 Error: Polar bears were being found that had actually drowned “swimming long distances-up to 60 miles-to find the ice”.
JUDGE: Only four polar bears have recently been found drowned, because of a storm.
9 Error: Coral reefs were bleaching because of global warming and other factors.
JUDGE: Separating the impacts of stresses due to climate change from oter stresses, such as over-fishing and pollution, was difficult
The British newspapers are full of stories this morning about a High Court judge's criticisms of Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth movie. See The Times, Daily Mail and Guardian.
Mr Justice Barton had been asked to rule on the film after the British Government had announced plans to have it distributed throughout the nation's schools.
Justice Barton found 'nine scientific errors' in the film and accused Mr Gore of "alarmism" and "exaggeration". Although he agreed that the film was "powerful, dramatically presented and highly professionally produced," he said that it was a political film and was so "one-sided" that it needed to be accompanied with other materials that provided pupils with balance if the Government was to continue with its plans to distribute it to schools.
The nine errors are summarised in the Daily Mail graphic that is reproduced on the right (click to enlarge).
Even the environment analyst of the BBC - which has been at the forefront of campaigning for action on climate change and was recently forced into cancelling a day of programmes dedicated to the subject - said the ruling would be "embarrassing" for Al Gore.
The Conservative Party's environment spokesman, Peter Ainsworth, has called upon the Government to prepare "a proper, up to-date, education pack about climate change - based on current evidence" and distribute that to schools, rather than the Al Gore movie.

Answer 1

READ THE FULL DECISION, not a biased newspaper article. Available here:

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.global-warming/msg/87ffb8db671bf175?

The plaintiffs asked that the film be banned. The judge denied them and said it could be shown provided that it was explained that SOME things in the film were political, something necessary because of strict English laws. He specifically found that:

"The following is clear: i) [the movie] is substantially founded upon scientific research"

"These propositions [that global warming is mostly due to man, is dangerous, and can be fixed by man], Mr Chamberlain submits (and I accept), are supported by a vast quantity of research published in peer-reviewed journals worldwide and by the great majority of the world’s climate scientists."

"It is clear that the Defendant understandably formed the view that AIT was an outstanding film, and that schools should be enabled to show it to pupils."

"I have no doubt that Dr Stott, the Defendant's expert, is right when he says that: "Al Gore's presentation of the causes and likely effects of climate change in the film was broadly accurate."

There were some relatively minor points the judge found inadequate proof for (not that they were wrong), but the full decision makes it clear he found the film basically correct. As do scientists.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2006-06-27-gore-science-truth_x.htm

Answer 2

Pontification, Heard it all before, starting with the cigarettes don't cause cancer crowd.

Irack has WMDs, and sponsors AlQuida.
Now it's Iran.
Meanwhile Bin laden is in Pakistan, & Pakistan
has nukes, duh !

It's All the same mentality, all the same GARBAGE !
Americans are "the world leaders" all right, in THAT crap.
But apparently very, very little else these days.

Yes, YOU and ALL your promoted and revered at nauseum, stinking, cheating, lieing doped up athletes, and your BS GWOT, patterned on an ideal sustainable, bussiness model.

Talk about crimes against humanity.
Take a look in the mirror.


I'm not saying Gore is brilliant, or allways right,
or to say that I necessarily fully appreciate or sympathies with
his motives.

The man has an ego, to be sure, as tall as that new building in Dubai.

But frankly, the rhetoric from the other side,
is ten thousand times more objectionable.
Not to mention boring, and irrelevant.

Did I mention, boring ?

Answer 3

have you ever heard the information stations speaking approximately different international locations and how their governments edit what's shown on the information to their human beings? How different international locations dont have the freedoms of speech like we've and the dont get the authentic information? nicely my chum...it extremely is an identical right here! Our information stations are owned by utilising a similar individuals that could earnings on green product revenues! as a rely of actuality, our information is probably no longer information in any respect! Its basically what they want us to work out! Like what some stupid movie star is doing! so, it keeps our minds busy so we dont have the time to work out the authentic problems and the authentic human beings growing to be them!!!

Answer 4

Al Gore made a movie. It has so many falsehoods in it that it is described as a political movie, not scientific.
That does not mean global warming isn't happening, hell, Iraq did have some nerve gas too, but sensationalism for political purposes is sad, even if the attempt was to get people more interested in the subject, it is still a disgrace to use lies to advance your political position.

Answer 5

so why did you purposely omit the part where the Judge agreed that the documentaries 3 main points were accurate? The Judge agreed that global warming was real, caused by humans, and is going to get worse if human behavior doesn't change.

or maybe you just didn't read the whole article...

Answer 6

Did you know that the same judge concluded that Gore was absolutely right in sugesting that global warming is caused by human emmissions of carbon dioxide?

Allow me to quote from a FOX News article:

In particular, he agreed with the main thrust of Gore’s arguments: “That climate change is mainly attributable to man-made emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide (‘greenhouse gases’).”

The other three main points accepted by the judge were that global temperatures are rising and are likely to continue to rise, that climate change will cause serious damage if left unchecked, and that it is entirely possible for governments and individuals to reduce its impacts.

Answer 7

Yep, Gore is a puppet on a string.

Answer 8

Since 95% of informed people believe that humans are causing global warming, does any of this make any difference?

Answer 9

Yes. And there are no demonstrated causal links between tobacco smoking and cancer.

Answer 10

Yawn.... shouldn't this be in the science category?