(Drudge h/t)
The director of "Not Evil, Just Wrong," a documentary challenging Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth," dares to ask a question at the Society of Environmental Journalists annual conference. Apparently Mr. Gore only allows the 'right kind' of questions to be asked of him.
Gore misstates what British court decided on the errors in his movie
From the local Madison, Wisconsin newspaper.In what organizers said was a rarity, Gore took half a dozen questions from journalists, including one from Phelim McAleer, an Irish filmmaker who asked Gore to address nine errors in his film identified by a British court in 2007.
Gore responded that the court ruling supported the showing of his film in British schools. When McAleer tried to debate further, his microphone was cut off by the moderators. . . .
The movie could be shown, but the court required that a warning be first given to the children before they are shown the movie. The nine errors identified by the court:These were identified in court as follows:
Gore's claim: A retreating glacier on Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania is evidence of global warming.
Finding: The government's expert witness conceded this was not correct.
Gore: Ice core samples prove that rising levels of carbon dioxide have caused temperature increases.
Finding: Rises in carbon dioxide actually lagged behind temperature increases by 800-2000 years.
Gore: Global warming triggered Hurricane Katrina, devastating New Orleans.
Finding: The government's expert accepted it was "not possible" to attribute one-off events to global warming.
Gore: Global warming is causing Africa's Lake Chad to dry up.
Finding: The government's expert accepted that this was not the case.
Gore: Polar bears had drowned due to disappearing Arctic ice.
Finding: Only four polar bears drowned, due to a particularly violent storm.
Gore: Global warming could stop the Gulf Stream, plunging Europe into a new ice age.
Finding: A scientific impossibility.
Gore: Species losses, including coral reef bleaching, are the result of global warming.
Finding: No evidence to support the claim.
Gore: Melting ice in Greenland could cause sea levels to rise dangerously.
Finding: Greenland ice will not melt for millennia.
Gore: Ice cover in Antarctica is melting.
Finding: It is, in fact, increasing.
Gore: Sea levels could rise by seven metres, causing the displacement of millions of people.
Finding: Sea levels are expected to rise by about 40 centimetres over 100 years.
Gore: Rising sea levels caused the evacuation of Pacific islanders to New Zealand.
Finding: The court observed that this appears to be a fa
lse claim.
