| Against the tide of global warming propaganda, there | | | | turned out that Mr Gore had misread the study: in |
| have been a multitude of scientific articles published in | | | | fact four polar bears drowned and this was because |
| 2007 that refute the global warming theories. | | | | of a particularly violent storm. |
| Because that is all they were, theories. | | | | 6. The film threatens that global warming could stop |
| However one of the most important happenings last | | | | the Gulf Stream throwing Europe into an ice age: the |
| year was the findings of a legal battle against the film | | | | Claimant's evidence was that this was a scientific |
| 'The Inconvenient Truth', this took place in England. | | | | impossibility. |
| The judge in the case found against the film, and | | | | 7. The film blames global warming for species losses |
| ruled that, in order for the film to be shown at | | | | including coral reef bleaching. The Government could |
| schools, the Government must first amend their | | | | not find any evidence to support this claim. |
| Guidance Notes to Teachers to make clear that | | | | 8. The film suggests that the Greenland ice covering |
| 1.) The Film is a political work and promotes only one | | | | could melt causing sea levels to rise dangerously. The |
| side of the argument. | | | | evidence is that Greenland will not melt for millennia. |
| 2.) If teachers present the Film without making this | | | | 9. The film suggests that the Antarctic ice covering is |
| plain they may be in breach of section 406 of the | | | | melting, the evidence was that it is in fact increasing. |
| Education Act 1996 and guilty of political | | | | 10. The film suggests that sea levels could rise by 7m |
| indoctrination. | | | | causing the displacement of millions of people. In fact |
| 3.) Eleven inaccuracies have to be specifically drawn | | | | the evidence is that sea levels are expected to rise |
| to the attention of school children. | | | | by about 40cm over the next hundred years and |
| These are the inaccuracies: | | | | that there is no such threat of massive migration. |
| 1. The film claims that melting snows on Mount | | | | 11. The film claims that rising sea levels has caused |
| Kilimanjaro is evidence of global warming. The | | | | the evacuation of certain Pacific islands to New |
| Government's expert was forced to concede that | | | | Zealand. The Government are unable to substantiate |
| this is not correct. | | | | this and the Court observed that this appears to be |
| 2. The film suggests that evidence from ice cores | | | | a false claim. |
| proves that rising CO2 causes temperature increases | | | | If you thought this was bad, a former policy advisor |
| over 650,000 years. The Court found that the film | | | | for Margaret Thatcher has found 35 errors in the |
| was misleading: over that period the rises in CO2 | | | | movie. |
| lagged behind the temperature rises by 800-2000 | | | | I have done my research and have concluded that, |
| years. | | | | like many scientists, man is not the cause of the |
| 3. The film uses emotive images of Hurricane Katrina | | | | Earths recent warming trend, which stopped in 1998. |
| and suggests that this has been caused by global | | | | The culprit is the sun. The majority of the other |
| warming. The Government's expert had to accept | | | | planets in our solar system are heating up too. And |
| that it was "not possible" to attribute one-off events | | | | you may find that this winter may have been colder |
| to global warming. | | | | than last, in fact its the coldest winter in Canada for |
| 4. The film shows the drying up of Lake Chad and | | | | 15 years. The water was so cold last year in the |
| claims that this was caused by global warming. The | | | | southern ocean that icebergs floated past New |
| Government's expert had to accept that this was | | | | Zealand, which has not happened before. We may be |
| not the case. | | | | heading for a global cooling. |
| 5. The film claims that a study showed that polar | | | | My point is that global warming and cooling is a |
| bears had drowned due to disappearing arctic ice. It | | | | natural, cyclical event caused by the Sun. |