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Loading ... Recently, there was a row in the UK over the Government requiring schools to show Gore’s farce of a movie about Global Warming. It actually went to court and a Judge in the UK found that it had at least nine falsehoods in it. There’s an interesting review of the movie at the Science and Public Policy Institute that found there are actually 35 Inconvenient Truths in the film.
I don’t care if you believe in Global Warming or not (for the record, I don’t). What I do care about is whether or not you believe what you hear or see with out doing the research yourself. It is far too easy to take what we hear for truth these days with out ever doing a bit of back checking to see if its any where near the ballpark (have you gotten that chain email about the Applebee’s Gift Cert?).
The article at the SPPI goes in depth on 35 of the specific errors (such as the ice on Kilimanjaro melting or the pacific islands disappearing under water) and refutes the claims made in “an Inconvenient Truth” with actual science. Something that while not lacking in the movie is consistently one sided. The problem with the movie (as with anything done by Michael Moore as well) is that it takes data and uses it as the backers of the flick see fit. What it doesn’t tell you are the other sides to every issue brought up by the film.
Take a look at the article, let me know if you still take the film as the gospel truth on global warming…
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October 30th, 2007 at 2:25 pm
Well, judging by your poll’s results you’re not alone.
Personally, I think there is some truth to global warming. I believe however that politicians and researchers with an agenda have twisted the facts to make the case bigger than what it is. It’s hard to really know what to believe in this age though.
October 30th, 2007 at 4:09 pm
It is hard to know what to believe. I do find it hard to believe though, that we could really have that much of an impact on the earth. Its been here for long before humankind and it will be here long after.
That being said, it was 35 degrees here when I went out to my car this morning…. I’m ready for summer.
October 30th, 2007 at 5:21 pm
I think it is very possible to have that large of an impact on the world, simply because, by the laws of nature we are defying every rule imaginable. Already as a species we over populate this world, and a species that over populates its niche does cause extreme damaged if not culled. Then add in the fact that nature’s checks and balances; disease, famine, natural disaster, have less of an affect on us due to our advances and it becomes easy to see where humanity can really be screwing up the world.