An Inconvenient Truth: Team Gore responds

[TheDoorbellRang]

An Inconvenient Truth: Team Gore responds

Last Friday, shortly after Vice President Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on global warming, we posted an item on a recently concluded court case in Britain that questioned some of the facts in his movie, An Inconvenient Truth. We are now giving Gore's spokeswoman, Kalee Kreider, the opportunity to respond to the criticisms of the British judge. Kreider also serves as Gore's environmental adviser. You can find our original posts here and here. Verdict still pending.


The Gore response

With a column titled "Fact Checker," it is difficult not to lose the forest for the trees. First and foremost, An Inconvenient Truth presented thousands and thousands of facts. We stand by our initial statement. We were gratified that a UK High Court judge, a layperson with a full docket, found the film worthy enough to be shown in British schools. A generation of schoolchildren will become more educated about global warming and what can be done to solve the climate crisis.

A number of other broader points need to be addressed from the Fact Checker's last two postings:

The judge himself never used the term "errors." That was an allegation made by the plaintiff--whose motives are quite suspect. Stewart Dimmock, who brought this case, appears to have been funded by the very same fossil fuel interests who have sought to undermine the scientific consensus behind global warming in the past. The Observer has reported that he was funded by mining interests as well as the Scientific Alliance, an industry-backed non-profit with links to other groups in the U.S. like the U.S. based George C. Marshall Institute which has received funding from Exxon. This was also reported in the U.S. Our experience is that when the vested interests do not like the message, they tend to use diversionary tactics to create uncertainty or to fund individuals and groups to shoot the messenger. In this instance, it appears they are trying to do both. According to these reports, Mr. Dimmock will still not fully reveal who funded the case.

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To conclude, it's unfortunate that news coverage of the UK decision was so sensational and, once again, directed conversation away from a broader and much-needed discussion and debate about solutions to the climate crisis.

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2007/10/an_inconvenient_truth_team_gor_1.html


Gosh. I must have missed this on the M$M news today. :sarcasm:

[IndyOp]

1. Thom Hartmann's comment on this was very insightful -

Apparently the "judgment" in favor of the plaintiff was that nothing would change in the way that the schools currently show the film. The UK schools have presented the film in past not as a writ from God but as good scientific information that should be considered and debated critically. Now that the court decision has been handed down - what has been done in the past by typical, responsible teachers will be done in the future.

:applause:

[TheDoorbellRang]

2. And yet it is ballyhooed across our tv screen as the "errors"

in AIT. And as Americans go about their busy schedules catching snippets of news here and there, unfortunately all they will recall are these supposed errors. It is truly a sad state of affairs.

[Martin Eden]

3. Thank you very much for that link. K&R

I was hoping to get Gore's official response.

[rosesaylavee]

4. K & R

Thanks for posting.

[Harper_is_Bush]

5. K&R. Good job "Team Gore"! n/t

[RestoreGore]

6. Thank you to "Team Gore"

This is definitely where the discussion should be.

"To conclude, it's unfortunate that news coverage of the UK decision was so sensational and, once again, directed conversation away from a broader and much-needed discussion and debate about solutions to the climate crisis."


It would seem there are many groups trying to direct the conversation away from the broader much needed discussion of solutions to the climate crisis. It's so gratifying to know that Mr. Gore is not allowing them to do that.

Recommended.

[SlowDownFast]

7. Kick.

Fuck Faux Noise.