Conveniently Incomplete: Gore Claims British Court Vindicated School Showing of Movie, 'Forgets' It 'Violated Laws'

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GlobalWarmingThanks to Drudge, the Internet will likely be abuzz with the news and video about Irish filmmaker Phelim McAleer's challenge to former Vice President Al Gore over correcting the nine errors found by a British judge in Gore's Oscar-winning "An Inconvenient Truth" documentary.

McAleer is co-producer of Not Evil, Just Wrong, a film challenging the content of Gore's film, that according to Wiki will be premiering on October 18.

When organizers of the Society of Environmental Journalists annual conference tired of McAleer's refusal to back down and acquiesce to Gore's conveniently incomplete answers, they cut off his microphone. The video also shows a meeting official scolding McAleer afterwards for attempting to "monopolize" the floor, telling him that "you got as much as you're going to get."

Gore's answers to McAleer's challenges are so disingenuous that they deserve their own Oscar for dissembling.

Here is a transcript of the exchange, which begins at about the 0:40 mark of the video:

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McAleer: The judge in the British High Court after a lengthy hearing found that there were nine significant errors (in the movie). This has been shown to children. Do you accept those findings, and have you done anything to correct those errors?

Gore: Well I'm not going to go through, uh, uh, a-all of those. Eh-th-th-the ruling was in favor of the movie, by the way, and the ruling was in favor of showing the movie in schools. And th-th-that's really th-th-the uh-uh-uh bottom line on that. There's been such a long discussion of each one of those, uh, specific things, um, one of them for example was the polar bears. If I remember correctly, it's been a long time ago, that polar bears really aren't endangered. Well, polar bears didn't get that word, heh, so uh (Audience chuckles.) ....

McAleer: Well the number of polar bears have increased, actually, and are now increasing ....

Gore: You don't think they're endangered, do you?

McAleer: Well the number of polar bears have increased.

Gore: Do you think they're endangered?

McAleer: The number of polar bears have increased. (Audience laughs). If the number of polar bears increased, surely they're not endangered.

At this point, organizers began to move to stop the McAleer's questioning, eventually cutting him off.

McAleer may or may not be right in his final assertion (bald eagle populations had to increase for a while before they become both officially and in reality not endangered). But Gore's in-essence claim of vindication by the British high court is a risible misrepresentation of the actual October 2007 result, as described at the time in coverage at ABC News. The network even indicated in the report's sub-headline that the ruling "resurrects the global warming debate." You'll also note that Gore's peeps began spinning the ruling a some kind of victory from the moment the ruling came down:

An Inconvenient Verdict for Al Gore
British Court Ruling on Errors in 'An Inconvenient Truth' Resurrects Global Warming Debate

The verdict couldn't have come at a less convenient time for Al Gore.

One day before Friday's announcement that he was a co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, a British High Court judge ruled that Gore's global warming film, "An Inconvenient Truth," while "broadly accurate," contained nine significant errors.

The ruling came on a challenge from a UK school official who did not want to show the film to students. High Court Judge Michael Burton said that the film is "substantially founded upon scientific research and fact" but that the errors were made in "the context of alarmism and exaggeration."

Burton found that screening the film in British secondary schools violated laws barring the promotion of partisan political views in the classroom. But he allowed the film to be shown on the condition that it is accompanied by guidance notes to balance Gore's "one-sided" views, saying that the film's "apocalyptic vision" was not an impartial analysis of climate change.

The claim was originally filed by truck driver Stewart Dimmock, whose two children have not yet seen the film.

"I got finished watching the documentary and felt I had watched a science fiction film," he told ABC News' Joseph J. Simonetti. "The court ruled nine inaccuracies. How many more exist?"

Dimmock criticized the British government's use of the film in schools, saying, "It was about time someone got off their backside and say, 'Oh, you're wrong.'" Yet he admitted, "I'm not an expert on global warming, then or now. I'm just a lorry driver."

The ruling resurrected the heated debate over the film's arguments between Gore's supporters and climate change skeptics.

His spokeswoman Kalee Kreider said that Gore was "deeply gratified that the court upheld the fundamental thesis of the film" and "affirmed it as a valid educational tool."

The bolded sentence in the excerpt makes mincemeat of Gorebot Kreider's claim in the excerpt's final sentence.

At the end of the video, which was produced by the MacIver Institute for Public Policy, which describes itself as "a Wisconsin based think tank that believes in free markets, individual freedom and responsible government," McAleer makes a crucial point about journalists' dereliction of duty throughout their coverage of environmental issues over the years (link within added by me):

McAleer: At the Society for Environmental Journalists, the reaction of the journalists, the reaction of Andrew Revkin of the New York Times, the reaction of the journalists, was to shut down the journalists and protect the politicians.

....What I would like of environmental journalists like myself is that you treat Big Environment the same way as you treat Big Politics, and Big Government, and Big Business. Y'know, treat Big Environment the way you treat Big Business. Where does the money come? Who's channeling it? .... Where is the independent verification of those claims? But they don't. If an environmentalist organizer says something, it's accepted as gospel.

Well said, sir. And well done.

Cross-posted at BizzyBlog.com.

—Tom Blumer is president of a training and development company in Mason, Ohio, and is a contributing editor to NewsBusters


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Typical....

They cut his mike.   There was something last week where McAleer was asking some enviro leftie how they got to a NY city premiere  of some left-wing global baloney stuff  by traveling by plane and he almost got beat up.

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" if Republicans are able to stop Barack Obama on health care, 'it will be his Waterloo, it will break him....-Sen. Jim DeMint

I see you beat me to this.

I see you beat me to this. LOL

 

HAHAHAHAHA. HEHEHE. I didn’t even know about it. Um. So, you’ve got me at a loss. I don’t know. (Charles Gibson of the dead media.)

lol! the more monopolistic

lol!

the more monopolistic their media gets, the dumber their arguments get. who needs a rational, factual argument when you've got a "news" media who will smooth over your rough edges?

Which is fine, in a way. It's like with islamists. If we can trust the rational judgement of people, they haven't got a hope in hell.

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Kool aid anyone?

So its only political propaganda if it is in opposition to the liberal agenda. mmm mmm mm. Kool aid seems to be a favorite all over the world.

              

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

What media bias?

Establishment Media Gestapo cut the mic of a reporter questioning Algore.

                                           Versus 

Establishment Media Gestapo praise a reporter throwing shoes at Bush.

See the movie

http://www.youtube.c...

Gore really looks embarrassed... Or is it a look of guilt?

And just listen to those sycophantic hacks (no one could claim they're journalists) lapping up Gore's every word. Pathetic creatures.

Why should the Goracle or any believer

in the mythical AGW allow science or reason to affect, as Gore put it..."a matter of public policy?"

It aint about Global Warming or saving the planet...it's about cold hard cash...power.

And who backs these greedy SOBs up?  The "Green Taliban".  It's my way or you want the earth to die. Period. 

The rich and powerful who lust for more riches and more power leading those that protest riches and power.  Insanity.

islam is a lie and

Truth is killing it.

Maybe Al's embarassed for

Maybe Al's embarassed for the sale of the Elk Hills reserves to Occidental Pet; under his Reinventing Government program. And his treatment of the U'wa.

Naagh.

 

HAHAHAHAHA. HEHEHE. I didn’t even know about it. Um. So, you’ve got me at a loss. I don’t know. (Charles Gibson of the dead media.)

Yes Polar Bears ARE ENDANGERED, they will FREEZE to death.

Food is freezing all over America, right now!!

State controlled health care is Tort Reform.

noteviljustwrong.com

I've ordered my copy. 

http://noteviljustwr...

"Greens are people who never worried about a grocery bill". Freeman Dyson

McAleerr also gave

McAleerr also gave us.

Seems warmers don't want to answer embarassing questions. And feel it's ok to toss those who disagree out.

 

HAHAHAHAHA. HEHEHE. I didn’t even know about it. Um. So, you’ve got me at a loss. I don’t know. (Charles Gibson of the dead media.)

warming...again? still? dim wits!!

Isn't it strange that the warmest year recently was 1998.......not 2008?   hummm and more ice too, geez thats strange warming, but not as strange as gore!

It is impossible for me to

It is impossible for me to believe that there is such as thing as a "global warning" or now, "climate change" crisis when the prophet himself, Al Gore, does nothing personally to prevent it.  He flys around the world on private jets, maintains multiple massive homes, and on and on....  read on at:  http://conservativetm.blogspot.com/2007/08/save-planet.html