Thursday, October 11, 2007

Another Inconvenient Truth: 11 Inaccuracies

Just days before Al Gore cancels an appointment to rush off on an urgent global warming overseas trip [hint, hint: the Nobel 'Peace' Prize], Rush Limbaugh reports on a British judge that has ruled that before students in the U.K. watch Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, they must be warned of at least 11 documented inaccuracies in the film. Just some of the inconvenient factual problems in the film:

Gore: Gore presents Mt. Kilimanjaro's melting snows as proof of global warming.
The Facts: The snows are vanishing thanks to local factors, including deforestation.

Gore: Gore says Antarctica's ice cover is melting.
The Facts: Most studies say it is increasing or stable.

Gore: Gore shows scary graphics of cities drowning in seas that rise 7 meters, causing millions of refugees.
The Facts: The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says the seas will rise at worst by 59cm this century.

Gore: Gore uses images of Hurricane Katrina and suggests it was caused by global warming.
The Facts: The Government's expert in this case admitted such one-off events can't be blamed on warming.

Gore: Gore suggests ice-core evidence shows rising CO2 caused temperature rises, which ended the past seven ice ages.
The Facts: The CO2 rises followed temperature rises by 800 to 2000 years.

Gore: Gore claims global warming could stop the Gulf Stream, causing an ice age in Europe.
The Facts: Recent studies deny it.

There are more. Damn those pesky facts! Of course, it won't stop them from awarding him the Nobel [politically correct, not-sure-how-global-warming-affects-peace] Peace Prize.

There's my two cents.

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