Posted on 05/20/2007 8:11:44 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Canadian Front Page: Experts Say Many of the Claims in Al Gores Film Are Wrong Posted by Noel Sheppard on May 20, 2007 - 11:02.
Heres something that is almost a metaphysical certitude: no major American newspaper, in the midst of all the current global warming hysteria, would dare do a front-page feature article questioning the merits of Al Gores schlockumentary An Inconvenient Truth.
Yet, there it was Saturday, covering almost two-thirds of the front page of Canadas National Post, right smack in the middle, with a big picture of the Global Warmingist-in-Chief, surrounded by the shocking headline:
Even Climate Change Experts Say Many of the Claims in Al Gores Film Are Wrong.
So How Did it Become Required Classroom Viewing?
Think youll see that some day on the front page of the New York Times, Washington Post, or USA Today?
While you ponder, the article was just as skeptical (emphasis added throughout):
First it was his world history class. Then he saw it in his economics class. And his world issues class. And his environment class. In total, 18-year-old McKenzie, a Northern Ontario high schooler, says he has had the film An Inconvenient Truth shown to him by four different teachers this year.
"I really don't understand why they keep showing it," says McKenzie (his parents asked that his last name not be used). "I've spoken to the principal about it, and he said that teachers are instructed to present it as a debate. But every time we've seen it, well, one teacher said this is basically a two-sided debate, but this movie really gives you the best idea of what's going on."
Amazing. The article continued:
Even scientists who back Mr. Gore's message admit they're uncomfortable with liberties the politician takes with "science" in the film. But, McKenzie says most of his classmates are credulous.
His teachers are not much more discerning. "They don't know there's another side to the argument," he says. McKenzie's mother was outraged to find out that Mr. Gore's film was being presented as fact in her son's classroom. "This is just being poured into kids' brains instead of letting them know there's a debate going on," she says. "An educational system falls down when they start taking one side."
But Mr. Gore's filmed climate-change lecture is showing up in classrooms across Canada, frequently unaccompanied by critical analysis or a discussion of competing theories. "One of the teachers at my kid's school showed it and he even said ahead of time, 'There is some propaganda in this,' " says Tim Patterson, a Carleton University earth sciences professor. "I said to him, 'You even knew this was a propaganda film, and you still showed it in your classroom?' " The weirdest part: It was the gym teacher.
If you have children in junior or high school, there is a good chance they have been shown An Inconvenient Truth in school - or they will be soon.
Shocking. Regardless of the admitted and not admitted flaws in this film, educators in Canada are showing it to students without any balance from the other side of the debate.
How disgraceful.
Yeah. Just like the backlash against second hand smoke.
It has indeed been oversold, but backlash is not the way these things work. Contrary evidence will mount, the facts will out and turn against the hysterics, and the weight of scientific opinion will render the theory unsustainable. At that point, probably a couple years from now at the most, "Climate change" will simply disappear from the news, the headlines will focus on some other crisis ginned up by the leftwing a-holes who run the bureaucracies and universities, and the "climate change" debate will be as if it never was...
From your home page......
"in case you havent noticed, the democraps won the u.s. congress in 2006."
Canada ping.
Please send me a FReepmail to get on or off this Canada ping list.
P.S. Ok, my Canadian friends help me out, please. My calender says that today is Victoria Day, but wikipedia says May 24th is Victoria Day. Which is it? Thanks.
Because they are trying to brainwash you.
Yes, the Monday on or before the 24th.
Yes, it’s a day off. The first one after Easter, and the last one before Canada Day, July 1st.
It is also considered to be the first planting weekend in most of the populated areas of Canada, as we don’t usually get frost after this weekend.
Thanks Creme Saver.
Happy Memorial Day to you next Monday.
One of my favorites, too.
Good for the Canadian press!
However, it’s not too hard to disprove a piece of junk like that, it doesn’t take experts. I’m only a high school senior and even I could refute Gore’s claims.
"May 24 Weekend and 24 beers in a case, eh.
Like, that's a .... COINCIDENCE ?!?!"
It’s all part of the Great Canadian Conspiracy.
Strictly for my own personal edification, would you please tell me when and where AlBore said that quote? I’d like to be able to back it up when I tell it to any glo-bull warming freakos I may meet.
Thank you for asking. Far to many people take something they hear or see on the Internet and carry it forward with no thought of checking the validity. I am reminded of an observation by Bertrand Russell in "Roads to Freedom".
"If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence."
Al Gore's quote has been reported many times in many places. The origin of the quote occurred during an interview by David Roberts on May 9, 2006 for Grist magazine.
David Robert's Question:
There's a lot of debate right now over the best way to communicate about global warming and get people motivated. Do you scare people or give them hope? What's the right mix?
Al Gore's Answer:
I think the answer to that depends on where your audience's head is. In the United States of America, unfortunately we still live in a bubble of unreality. And the Category 5 denial is an enormous obstacle to any discussion of solutions. Nobody is interested in solutions if they don't think there's a problem. Given that starting point, I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis.
Over time that mix will change. As the country comes to more accept the reality of the crisis, there's going to be much more receptivity to a full-blown discussion of the solutions.
Thank you very much.
Haha! Great minds think alike. I have thought the same thing. I hope I'm alive to see it when all those enviro-weenies can no longer deny the facts and stand there quoting Ralph Kramden;
"Hominah-hominah-hominah..."
Yes, the room temp IQ types are HALF of the world, then there’s the HALF that are children, plus the 1-2% hardened criminals. The american people YAK about “freedom from foreign oil” on the one hand, and we have several, non-nuclear, non-polluting(other than WASTE HEAT)new energy sources on the other hand.
Would you leave a loaded gun in a nursery for children to play with? Or let a 5 year old drive a semitruck on a freeway? Giving whole atomic bombs worth of virtually free energy to every idiot, child, criminal in the world to play with = instant, hot stinking garbage dump of a biosphere.
Or what if we gave an AG(AntiGravity)flying carpet to everyone of 7 billion people? It would be the mexican FLOOD times 1000 = the entire starving, poor third world landing on YOUR lawn(15:1 at least), moving in to YOUR home, ripping off everything of value...a human LOCUST plague.
algore is a pied piper for the dummies and they are the real danger here, far too immature/ignorant/criminal to handle TOO MUCH energy. The movie is CHAIN REACTION, a naive kid vs the wiser, older energy guru who knows the whole scene, listen to that argument : moderate, evolutionary growth or EXPLOSIVE, cancerous growth, which do you prefer?
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