Fact check: Inconvenient Truth and Judges List of 9 ERRORS

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http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2007/10/an_inconvenient_truth_for_al_g.html


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An Inconvenient Truth for Al Gore


Al Gore believes that Hurricane Katrina was caused by global warming.

AL GORE:

The melting of ice in either West Antartica or Greenland would result in a sea-level rise of up to 20 feet "in the near future."

--Oscar-winning movie, "The Inconvenient Truth."


BRITISH HIGH COURT JUDGE MICHAEL BURTON:

"This is distinctly alarmist and part of Mr Gore's 'wake-up call.'"While it is generally accepted that the melting of Greenland's ice will eventually lead to rises in sea-levels of this magnitude, this will only happen "after, and over, millenia."

--Legal ruling, October 9, 2007.

Al Gore received the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his work drawing attention to the effects of climate change. Today's topic: Just how accurate are his assertions?


The Facts

The former vice-president has won plaudits around the world for his work on global warming, publicized in a best-selling book, an Oscar-winning movie, Power Point lectures, and now the Nobel Peace Prize. By coincidence, the announcement of the Nobel coincided with the conclusion of a months-long court case in Britain examining whether An Inconvenient Truth can be shown to British school children. The judge ruled this week that the movie can be shown in classrooms, but only if accompanied by teacher guidance notes balancing Gore's "one-sided views."......more......includes the 9 errors........

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1. "Warnings about global warming may not be dire enough"

Warnings about global warming may not be dire enough, according to a climate study that describes a runaway-train acceleration of industrial carbon dioxide emissions.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/environment/2007-05-21-carbon-dioxide-emissions_N.htm


The Greenland ice sheet is melting more rapidly than previously thought

Based on a new evaluation of satellite data and regional climate modelling, scientists in the Laboratory for Glaciology and Environmental Geophysics (LGGE(1), Grenoble) and at the Catholic University at Louvain (Belgium) have recently shown that the superficial melting of the Greenland ice sheet during the past 25 years has accelerated twice as rapidly than the rate estimated by previous studies. Between 1979 and 2005, the area of Greenland affected by melt on at least one day per year grew by 42%, while the mean temperature rose by 2.4°C. These results were published in Geophysical Research Letters.

Proof of global warming has been accumulating in recent years and climate models indicate that this warming mainly results from an increase in greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere. In this context, and in view of the impact of ice sheet melt on sea levels and the climate on land around the Atlantic Ocean, future evolutions affecting the Greenland ice sheet are of crucial importance.
http://www2.cnrs.fr/en/902.htm?&debut=16


NASA: Danger Point Closer Than Thought From Warming
Recent Climate Reports Underestimated How Soon
By heralding the new research paper, NASA is endorsing science that places considerably more urgency on the need to reduce emissions to avoid "disastrous effects" of global warming than was evident in the recent reports from the world's scientists coordinated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The new NASA release emphasizes the danger of "strong amplifying feedbacks" pushing Earth past "dangerous tipping points."

Scientists have been warning for several years that such tipping points are the greatest threat from manmade global warming — and what makes it potentially catastrophic for civilization.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=3223473

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2. so this judge knows for a FACT that it will take "milenia" for the sea levels to rise

eh?

I don't think so. The TRUTH is that we don't know how LONG it will take, only that it WILL happen.

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3. One question?

Al Gore and scientist investigated and verified all the information they have in the film. And it had to take up to a year or more. This judge watches it and says it is true....

I guess Britain has it's crazy judges also.