35 Inconvenient Truths

Oops! Someone actually sat down and listed all the mistakes and falsehoods in Al Gore’s crockumentary “An Inconvenient Truth”. And they started out by showing that Al’s peeps have a real problem with reality.

A spokesman for Al Gore has issued a questionable response to the news that in October 2007 the High Court in London had identified nine “errors” in his movie An Inconvenient Truth. The judge had stated that, if the UK Government had not agreed to send to every secondary school in England a corrected guidance note making clear the mainstream scientific position on these nine “errors”, he would have made a finding that the Government’s distribution of the film and the first draft of the guidance note earlier in 2007 to all English secondary schools had been an unlawful contravention of an Act of Parliament prohibiting the political indoctrination of children.

Al Gore’s spokesman and “environment advisor,” Ms. Kalee Kreider, begins by saying that the film presented “thousands and thousands of facts.” It did not: just 2,000 “facts” in 93 minutes would have been one fact every three seconds. The film contained only a few dozen points, most of which will be seen to have been substantially inaccurate. The judge concentrated only on nine points which even the UK Government, to which Gore is a climate-change advisor, had to admit did not represent mainstream scientific opinion.

The movie, in fact, has as much to do with reality as George Lucas’ campy Star Wars films. Only, Lucas’ plots and actors were more credible.

It amazes me that anyone with any knowledge of science wouldn’t see through that movie. It just goes to show how ideology can trump common sense. At one point in his film Gore compares the earth to a Atlas globe, claiming the atmosphere is like the varnish on the globe, and just as thin. So we live in the varnish.

Now, if you don’t know anything that would make you think that, yeah, our pollution is obviously affecting things because there is so little atmosphere.

Uh, the atmosphere goes up 50 kilometers or 31 miles from sea level. And I’m just talking about to the Stratosphere. It actually reaches over 560 kilometers (348 miles) from the surface of the Earth if you count the whole thing. Space shuttles are still in the Earth’s atmosphere when they are in orbit. The air is just too thin to breathe. So that’s how far up it goes from sea level. Now you take that and multiply it by the circumference of the earth. At the equator it’s 24,902 mi / 40,076 km. You can get the idea from there we’re talking a lot of air. And there is so much we don’t understand about the climate. We’re still learning. It’s monstrously arrogant to claim we are definitely having an impact on the climate when we have such a limited grasp of how it works.

But leave it to a politician like Gore to invent a crisis that must be “solved”. By the way, when was the last time politicians solved a problem that you can name? I’m having a hard time coming up with good examples. 

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