Posted on 10/09/2007 9:35:14 AM PDT by Para-Ord.45
Here are those 11 corrections to Gore's film - and many will be familiar to readers of this column: Gore presents Mt Kilimanjaro's melting snows as proof of global warming. In fact, the snows are vanishing thanks to local factors, including deforestation. Gore suggests Antarctica's ice cover is melting. Most studies says it is increasing or stable. Gore shows scary graphics of cities drowning in seas that rise 7m, causing millions of refugees. But the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says the seas will rise at worst by 59cm this century. Gore uses images of Hurricane Katrina and suggests it was caused by global warming. The Government's expert in this case admitted such one-off events can't be blamed on warming. Gore suggests ice-core evidence shows rising CO2 caused temperature rises, which ended the past seven ice ages. In fact, the CO2 rises followed temperature rises by 800 to 2000 years. Gore claims global warming could stop the Gulf Stream, causing an ice age in Europe. Recent studies deny it. Gore blames global warming for species losses and coral reef bleaching. The Government couldn't show evidence to back this claim. Gore claims a study showed polar bears had drowned because of vanishing ice. The study actually said just four polar bears drowned, and only because of a bad storm. Gore suggests Greenland's ice could melt, causing a dangerous rise in sea levels. In fact, Greenland's ice won't melt for thousands of years. Gore shows the drying up of Lake Chad and claims this was caused by global warming. The Government's expert agreed this was not the case. Gore claims rising seas have forced people to flee Pacific islands to New Zealand. There is no record of any such warming-caused evacuation. .
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
” ... I don’t know why the court stopped at just 11. Hyperbole overload? But this must be enough to make rational viewers sceptical of all Gore’s case.
The British Government has now rewritten its guidance to teachers to take in those 11 objections, while trying very hard not to make Gore’s film seem fraudulent.
To correct that last false claim, for instance, of global warming causing islanders to evacuate their homes, the guide now includes this weasel disclaimer: “It is not clear that there is any evidence of evacuations in the Pacific due to human-induced climate.” What: not clear?
But that’s not the only sign that the educationists who push Gore’s film on to students are as devoted to his apocalyptic faith as are our own class of teacher-preachers.
Note this line from the guide, urging children to question even their parents’ lack of faith: “Pupils may ask, what were my parents and grandparents doing during this time? Did they know that this was happening?”
But here’s the real questions those students will be asking once they are old enough to think for themselves, and to see Gore’s promised Armageddon never came.
What were my teachers doing, pushing on me an end-of-my-world film that clearly didn’t tell the truth?
What madness took hold even of our scientists, that the CSIRO could claim of this deceitful film, “its scientific basis is very sound”?
Children, you are being told untruths to scare you. And shame on those who are party to this deceit. “
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22559777-5000117,00.html
save for later bump.
The “what’s correct” list would have been much shorter and easier to compile.
It took Greenland 18,000 years to accumulate as much ice as it has now. How long do you think it will take it to melt?
The threat to mankind posed by global warming is directly related to the party affiliation of the occupant of the White House. If a Dem wins in 2008, the threat will instantly disappear.
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Not necessarily. If they manage to ram through some GW-inspired legislation, then when the cataclysm fails to come, it will actually prove they were right, or that's how they'll pitch it.
That's why it's so vitally important not to allow any GW legislation to pass. If it's in place, they'll be in a position of never being able to be disproven, so we'll never be able to repeal the laws. Nice Catch 22, eh?
As will homelessness and people lacking medical insurance.
Al Bore invented the Internet.
Putfile Version (Higher quality)
The moonbats have been voting down the first video "Inconvenient Hypocrisy", be sure to vote it back up to the top of the heap of videos about Al Bore.
Good anti-Global Warming video that picks apart Gore's stupid film.
What’s correct in L. Ron Gore’s Powerpoint presentation masquerading as a movie:
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Hell, the whole thing starts with the movie poster of Gore with the smokestack behind him. His entire premise of GW is based on increasing CO2 levels. However, what it is coming out of that smokestack isn’t CO2, which is colorless.
Amazing that this fraud is right in front of people’s faces before the movie even BEGINS...
FR`s Excerpt rules aren`t ;-)
But thanks. After umpteen attempts to upload the story
and umpteen edits and 5 minutes later, that was the result.
Algore`s book, An Inconvenient Truth is rife with either one sided, misleading,speculative,exaggerated or just plain wrong statements:
One-sided statements
• It neglects to mention that aggregate mortality and mortality rates due to extreme weather events declined dramatically during the 20 th century.
• It neglects to mention the circumstances that make it reasonable rather than blameworthy for America to be the biggest CO 2 emitter: the world’s largest economy, abundant fossil energy resources, markets integrated across continental distances, the world’s most mobile population.
• The book impugns the motives of so-called global warming skeptics but never acknowledges the special-interest motivations of those whose research grants, direct mail income, industrial policy privileges, regulatory power, prosecutorial plunder, or political careers depend on keeping the public in a state of fear about global warming.
• AIT never addresses the obvious criticism that the Kyoto Protocol is all economic pain for no environmental gain and that regulations stringent enough to measurably cool the planet would be a “cure” worse than the alleged disease.
Misleading statements
• AIT implies that, throughout the past 650,000 years, changes in CO 2 levels preceded and largely caused changes in global temperature, whereas the causality mostly runs the other way: CO 2 changes followed global temperature changes.
• It ignores the societal factors that typically overwhelm climatic factors in determining people’s risk of damage or death from hurricanes, floods, drought, tornadoes, wildfires, and disease.
• It implies that a study, which found that none of 928 science articles (actually abstracts) denied a CO 2 -global warming link, shows that Gore’s apocalyptic view of global warming is the “consensus” view among scientists.
• It reports that 48 Nobel Prize-winning scientists accused Bush of distorting science, without mentioning that the scientists acted as members of a 527 political group set up to promote the Kerry for President Campaign.
Exaggerated statements
• AIT hypes the importance and exaggerates the certainty of the alleged link between global warming and the frequency and severity of tropical storms.
• Claims polar bears “have been drowning in significant numbers,” based on a report that found four drowned polar bears in one month of one year, following an abrupt storm.
• Portrays the collapse in 2002 of the Larson-B ice shelf—a formation the “size of Rhode Island”—as harbinger of doom. For perspective, the Larson-B was 180 th the size of Texas and 1/246 th the size of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS).
• AIT presents a graph suggesting that China’s new fuel economy standards are almost 30% more stringent than the current U.S. standards. In fact, the Chinese standards are only about 5% more stringent.
Speculative statements
• AIT blames global warming for the record-breaking 37-inch downpour in Mumbai, India, in July 2005, even there has been no trend in Mumbai rainfall for the month of July in 45 years.
• It blames global warming for recent floods in China’s Sichuan and Shandong provinces, even though more damaging floods struck those areas in the 19 th and early 20 th centuries.
• It blames global warming for the disappearance of Lake Chad, a disaster more likely stemming from a combination of regional climate variability and societal factors such as population increase and overgrazing.
• AIT warns that a doubling of pre-industrial CO 2 levels to 560 ppm will so acidify seawater that all optimal areas for coral reef construction will disappear by 2050—implausible because coral calcification rates have increased as ocean temperatures and CO 2 levels have risen, and today’s main reef builders evolved and thrived during the Mesozoic Period, when atmospheric CO 2 levels hovered above 1,000 ppm for 150 million years and exceeded 2,000 ppm for several million years.
• It warns of “significant and alarming structural changes” in the submarine base of the WAIS, but does not tell us what those changes are or why they are “significant and alarming.” The WAIS has been retreating since the early Holocene. At the rate of retreat observed in the 1990s, the WAIS should disappear in about 7,000 years.
• It warns that half the Greenland Ice Sheet could “slide” into the sea, even though the ice sheet sits in a bowl-like depression surrounded by mountains that restrict glacial outflow to the sea.
Wrong statements
• AIT claims glaciologist Lonnie Thompson’s reconstruction of climate history proves the Medieval Warm Period was “tiny” compared to the warming observed in recent decades. It doesn’t. Four of Thompson’s six ice cores indicate the Medieval Warm Period was as warm as or warmer than any recent decade.
• It claims the rate of global warming is accelerating, when it has been remarkably constant for the past 30 years—roughly 0.17°C/decade.
• It attributes Europe’s killer heat wave of 2003 to global warming; it was actually due to an atmospheric circulation anomaly.
• It claims that 2004 set an all-time record for the number of tornadoes in the United States. Tornado frequency has not increased; rather, the detection of smaller tornadoes has increased. If we consider the tornadoes that have been detectable for many decades (F-3 or greater), there is actually a downward trend since 1950.
• It blames global warming for a “mass extinction crisis” that is not, in fact, occurring
I think the converse is more likely. These nutcases truly believe this crap plus it fits with their politics - everyone must toe the line and sacrifice to prevent globaal meltdown. The government will tell you how to live, what level of comfort is permissible and what is 'anti-earth" and therfore "anti-American"!
Pure socialism.....
“Al Bore invented the Internet.”
What a coincidence-he also invented global warming.
That is possibly the most far-fetched, illogical, nonsensical statement I've heard around here in quite a while.
And that covers a LOT of silly statements.
but, but, but, didn’t algore win an OSCAR for this film, how can it be incorrect???? LMAO............
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