Yes the title is horrible, couldn't help myself...Our dearly beloved Gore and his movie "An Inconvenient Truth" appears to be unbalanced in its presentation of the climate issues. I am sure that you are as shocked and appalled as I am, to discover this. Can you imagine; Gore misrepresenting the truth... This inventor of the Internet, who has been a leader for morality and truthfulness for so many years. Sigh... London's (England) High Court has decided that the movie was too unbalanced to viewed in public schools, unless a written statement representing the "other side" is also studied. The court found nine factual errors in the movie:
Mr Gore's assertion that a sea-level rise of up to 20 feet would be caused by melting of ice in either West Antarctica or Greenland "in the near future". The judge said this was "distinctly alarmist" and it was common ground that if Greenland's ice melted it would release this amount of water - "but only after, and over, millennia".
Mr Gore's assertion that the disappearance of snow on Mount Kilimanjaro in East Africa was expressly attributable to global warming - the court heard the scientific consensus was that it cannot be established the snow recession is mainly attributable to human-induced climate change.
Mr Gore's reference to a new scientific study showing that, for the first time, polar bears had actually drowned "swimming long distances - up to 60 miles - to find the ice". The judge said: "The only scientific study that either side before me can find is one which indicates that four polar bears have recently been found drowned because of a storm."
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It's not that I disbelieve or disagree with everything Gore presents, or that i take the opposing side. In this debate i find both sides to have lost their way. Instead of squabbling back and forth, they ought to focus their attention on reducing pollution, whether the warming we have now has human causes or not, is in many ways irrelevant. I think most people can agree, regardless of where your convictions are, that pollution is bad, that 1,5 bill are without clean drinking water is bad, fish dying in toxic streams is bad, birds dying of hypothermia due to oil spills is bad. So lets focus on these issues, rather than seeing who can win some arbitrary argument on Fox News.
What bugs me most of all, is when anyone, regardless of issue only presents one side of the issue (be it climate changes, communism, or Toyota Tundras). Show me what the options are, Al, and I'll make up my own mind; thank you very much.
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i used to be really worried about the media's control over all of western civilization, until i realized that really some entity or another has always existed that manipulates everyone into thinking a specific way through lies and alarmism. i mean, good grief, the papists are still at it (didn't the pope himself just last week call global warming as a moral issue?).
people like to get all bothered and worried; it's a human prideful reaction because we think that we are in control, but of course we're not. besides... the vikings settled greenland in the medieval period, with farms and the like. that is unimagineable considering greenland's current climate. solomon himself said it best: "there is nothing new under the sun"... it's all meaningless toil and vanity.
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