An Inconvenient Truth is in reality filled with Convenient Falsehoods

Via Flopping Aces we learn of a British court's decision to unmask Al Gore's lies:

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.

I'm sure you've read this widely in the MSM. 

Right?

Comments

[Jeremy]

So Al Gore can make up a bunch of stuff like this and become the odds on favorite for Nobel Peace Prize? Someone tell me that is possible? Trying to be objective here, can you list what in his movie is considered to be universally accepted by scientists. Id like to see a comparison to see if he made 100 good points and 10 lies or if it is a 50/50 type deal. The self serving and hypcrosiy of people like Gore continues to amaze me and most people in this country are too dumb to see it.

[Morgan K Freeberg]

I'd like to hold a stopwatch to that goofy movie. I'm convinced from giving it a once-over, that the scientific claims, whether they be true, false, possible, remotely feasible, debunked altogether...in total, they make up less than 50% of the footage.

The bulk of it is a bunch of snotty lecturing about how incredulous our children will be at our "failure" to "listen." In fact, I think they'll be incredulous that we fell for this for so long.

I got a chuckle out of one of the GW alarmists at work with this one-liner: "You global warming people drive such BIG cars!" It's true. Conduct your own informal survey. I road my bike six miles to work yesterday. In all that distance, I didn't see ONE other bike. Not ONE. And that movie's a pretty big event here. It's hogwash. The people who pretend to believe it, even, are the last ones to really believe it.

[tim]

Exactly Morgan, I’d still realize that GW is all BS if the congregation that worships Al Gore were to practice what they preach but at least I’d respect them for walking the walk.

After to talking to one of these kooks I’ve found out that they want the government to fix it. Yea, there’s a shock and how ironic that the least trustful of government always turns to Big Brother for a cure.

tim

[Frank]

It is indeed an inconvenient truth that the Al Gore "disaster movie" is inaccurate, the unfortunate fall out of this is that it will appear as if the jury is out on whether Global Warming is a reality or not. However this is not the case. The vast majority of Scientists are convinced that Global warming is happening and that it is caused by Human activity, this still remains an Inconvenient truth to Large multinationals and gas guzzling greedy First world nations. I hope the likes of Mr. Gore will now seriously re-think their strategy after this inconvenient Court decision which has grave ramifications for the course of remedies to man's misuse fo the Earth's resources.

[Morgan K Freeberg]

The vast majority of Scientists are convinced that Global warming is happening and that it is caused by Human activity, this still remains an Inconvenient truth to Large multinationals and gas guzzling greedy First world nations.

Yeah, well...here's a question to help snap people out of the group-think mode, it will almost assuredly snag a different answer from every unique sentient being invited to ponder it.

What would Al Gore have to add to AIC in order for it to stop being called a "documentary"? Before we plunge into that, I'll just toss up this handy piece of reference material...notice, things that carry this name, are identified both by what they do have, and by what they do not have.

doc∙u∙men∙ta∙ry
(adj.)
1. Consisting of, concerning, or based on documents.
2. Presenting facts objectively without editorializing or inserting fictional matter, as in a book or film.

(n.)
A work, such as a film or television program, presenting political, social, or historical subject matter in a factual and informative manner and often consisting of actual news films or interviews accompanied by narration.

To me, all those shots of him being dropped off at a public airport, and checking his luggage, would be sufficient to nudge it over the edge. They're either misleading or out-and-out false, since Gore has chosen to put himself in a most inconvenient light by running around the world in private jets. Embarrassingly, his purpose in doing this has been identified and substantiated as giving speeches where he lectures people to stop spewing the very same gases he just got done blowing out his jet's rear end. For all the marriage the airport scenes have with reality, they might as well have shown Gore buying a Greyhound bus ticket. Or, hell, thumbing a ride on an on-ramp.

This movie is not designed to teach people things. It is not designed to get them to think; it is designed to make them feel things, like a John Denver cut on a Top 40 countdown on an FM radio station.

If the airport footage doesn't do the trick, the "Joe Millionaire" non-existent-camera method of showing Gore tinkering away with his laptop, nervously chewing on the pencil erasers, answering his office phone, accompanied by dramatic voice-overs saying things like "I feel like I failed" -- that would be next. The next level after that, would have to be the former Vice-President watching the rivers, apprehensively, with the birds singin' and the sun shinin' and the leaves flutterin'.

The background music doesn't disqualify the whole film, but it certainly subtracts points.

I mean, what's next, he grabs a microphone and starts singing?

This is what I have in mind when I say our children will be "incredulous that we fell for this." We'll haul this movie out, and they'll ask -- rightfully so -- "but, I don't understand. Where's the documentary that got everyone fooled? And what's this thing you're showing me now? It looks like a promo or an advertisement for the real documentary...where's the real documentary?"

This is our generation's biggest shame. The previous generation has to feel embarrassed about bell-bottoms and muttonchop sideburns. That generational humiliation will be nothing compared to ours.