Judge rules nine major errors Inconvenient Truth documentary

The documentary an Inconvenient Truth must be shown with a series of ‘disclaimers’ due to the number of ERRORs in British schools.Mr Justice Burton said former US vice-president Al Gore’s film, An Inconvenient Truth, was ‘one-sided’ and would breach education rules unless accompanied by a warning.

Agreeing that Mr Gore’s film was ‘broadly accurate’ on the subject of climate change, he found that errors had arisen in ‘the context of alarmism and exaggeration’.

The judge then set out nine errors in the film which went against current mainstream scientific consensus:

1. ERROR: Mr Gore asserted that a sea-level rise of up to 20 feet would be caused by melting of Ice sheets ‘in the near future’
   JUDGE: ‘This Is distinctly alarmist’, and will only occur ‘after, and over, millennia’.

   ERROR: Low-lying Pacific atolls have already been evacuated.
   JUDGE: There was no evidence of any evacuation having yet happened.

2. ERROR: The Gulf Stream, that warms up the Atlantic, would shut down
   JUDGE: it was ‘very unlikely’ It would shut down in the future, though it might slow down.
3. ERROR: Graphs showing a rise in (02 and the rise In temperature over a period of 650,000 years showed ‘an exact fit’.
   JUDGE: There was a connection, but ‘the two graphs do not establish what Mr Gore asserts’.
4. ERROR: The disappearance of snow on Mt Kilimanjaro was
   due to global warming.
   JUDGE: It cannot be established that the recession of snows on Mt Kilimanjaro is mainly attributable to human-induced climate change.
5. ERROR: The drying up of Lake Chad Is a prime example of a catastrophic result of global warming
   JUDGE: Insufficient to establish the exact cause
6. ERROR: Hurricane Katrina blamed on global warming.
   JUDGE: There was ‘insufficient evidence to show that’.
7. ERROR: Polar bears were being found that had actually drowned ’swimming long distances- up to 60 miles-to find the Ice’.
   JUDGE: Only four polar bears have recently been found drowned, because of a storm.
8. ERROR: Coral reefs were bleaching because of global warming and other factors.
   JUDGE: Separating the impacts of stresses due to climate change from other stresses, such as over-fishing and pollution, was difficult.

News Article