Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Court Identifies Eleven Inaccuracies in Al Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient Truth’

Court Identifies Eleven Inaccuracies in Al Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient Truth’

Here's a few of those falacies...

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 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 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.


There's more there.

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