An Inconvenient Truth

[Tai_Chung]

My daughter has to do a report in 9th grade Biology based on the book "An Inconvenient Truth" by Al Gore.

Can anyone recommend sources that disprove it?

[SpaceBar]

Al Gore’s academic credentials.

[kjo]

You need to be calling the superintendent’s office to find out why propaganda is being taught to children.

Did her teacher show the other point of view? I thought not. This is not the way education is supposed to work.

[Digital Sniper]

Google is your friend.

http://www.google.com/search?&q=inconvenient+truth+refutation

[YourAdHere]

The Newsweek article from 1978 about global cooling would be worth a mention. Show how agendas are constantly being showered on the public.

[Slapshot68]

“My daughter has to do a report in 9th grade Biology based on the book “An Inconvenient Truth” by Al Gore.

Can anyone recommend sources that disprove it?”

Google “global warming hoax” for starters.

[maquiladora]

Richard S. Lindzen wrote in a June 26, 2006 op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that Gore was using a biased presentation to exploit the fears of the public for his own political gain. [75] Roy Spencer wrote an open letter to Gore criticizing his presentation of climate science in the film, asserting that the Arctic had a similar temperature in the 1930s before the mass emissions of carbon dioxide began.[76] Timothy F. Ball rejected Gore’s claim that there has been a sharp drop-off in the thickness of the Arctic ice cap since 1970, stating that the data was taken only from an isolated area of the Arctic and during a specific cooling period.[77] William Gray said of the movie: "We're brainwashing our children. They're going to the Gore movie [An Inconvenient Truth] and being fed all this. It's ridiculous."[78] While discussing the companion book to the movie Gray said, "This is a slick propaganda book. The pictures are very good. But there are factual errors."[79] A March 13, 2007 article in The New York Times reported on concerns among some scientists about the tone and the accuracy of the film, noting that they "argue that some of Mr. Gore’s central points are exaggerated and erroneous". Gore's discussion of a rise in sea level of up to 20 feet, while not stating a timeframe, appears in contrast with a report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which predicts a maximum rise of 23 inches this century, excluding non-linear effects on ice sheets; although that too discusses the possibilities of higher rises if the ice sheets melt. The article also states that "a report last June by the National Academies seemed to contradict Mr. Gore’s portrayal of recent temperatures as the highest in the past millennium."[6] The article quotes both defenders and critics of the film; Gore responds that scientists may disagree with him on some details, "but we do agree on the fundamentals."[6]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Inconvenient_Truth#Criticism

[svcw]

Book: Environmental Overkill - Whatever Happened To Common Sense
Dixy Lee Ray

[massgopguy]

Al Gore’s book is Earth in the Balance. Use the Unibomber Manifesto to expose the insanity.

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[Digital Sniper]

I also recommend Michael Crichton's beautifully-stated talk at Caltech entitled "Aliens Cause Global Warming" (http://www.s8int.com/crichton.html).

[proudmilitarymrs]

An Inconvenient Book by Glenn Beck has quite a bit of research concerning this very subject. Worth a look.

mrs

[Mamzelle]

Do a search here on FR and find where Al Gore went from a net worth of a few million to 100 million thanks to corporate sponsors after his Nobel Prize—

[kevao]

Last week’s snow storm in the Middle East.

[Slapshot68]

Simply have her bring in Al Gore’s book, and beside it set a roll of toilet paper.

Object lessons are often the most effective.

[DJ MacWoW]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1961517/posts

[abigailsmybaby]

http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=c9554887-802a-23ad-4303-68f67ebd151c

It’s a lot of information and a lot of links to follow but it’s worth it.

[Just another Joe]

A Skeptic's Guide to An Inconvenient Truth

[newconhere]

Absolutely, you need to take a stand and refuse to use this as fact! Pick another book and use this to discredit An Inconvenient Truth. This just chaps me.

[demshateGod]

Homeschool.

[popdonnelly]

Since it’s written by a political hack, not a scientist, I think it wouldn’t be hard to debunk.

[Domandred]

Reference lists posted in the last two days.

The Best Global Warming Videos on the Internet - Part I: Documentaries (Vanity)

The Best Global Warming Videos On The Internet - Part II: Lectures (Vanity)

[MrB]

If you have the time before this is due,

write TWO reports.

One regurgitating the bullsht that the teacher wants to see, and the other refuting everything. The latter needs to be footnoted and sourced down to the gnat’s eyelash.

Turn them both in, see what they get for grades, then raise a stink when the regurgitation piece gets a good grade and the other does not.

Expose the indoctrination agenda of public school teachers.

[LTCJ]

A Global Temperature History of the Past Two Millennia

[Slapshot68]

It would also be good to get a hold of the list of “accredited climatologists” that Gore cites in his book. It turns out some of them aren’t even climatologists...they’re music professors, business profs, etc.

[Melinda]

How about pointing out that the term “Global Warming” was so inaccurate that now even the MSM call it “Climate Change”?

[Doogle]

...one can always point to the British courts about the fairy tale, and why it is NOT allowed to be shown in their schools in regards to accuracy.

[jeddavis]

There is no point prior to about 1800 at which I'd not have preferred having a longbow in my hands to any extant firearm; the bow was more accurate and had 15 times the rate of fire.

Ever wonder why Europeans including the English started using firearms as early as 1500?? Basically, as armor got heavier, the English archery groups had started looking increasingly like the offensive line of an NFL football team, i.e. all 300 pounders, which is what you needed to be pulling 100-lb bows.

Then the medieval climate optimum gave out and gave way to the "little ice age", and nobody had the food supplies to produce archers that strong any more. That's a hell of a big climate change and humans had no more to do with it than they do with anything which might be going on now.

[MrB]

Homeschool.

yep.

[tal hajus]

If one of my children came home with this homework I would be scheduling an appointment with the teacher and/or superintendent in addition to rounding up the abundant material to refute this hoax.

[3AngelaD]

You need to raise holy hell with your ELECTED school board for allowing this propaganda to be taught in your daughter’s class without an opposing view presented.

[Aussiebabe]

A must read is Bjorn Lomborg’s book “ Cool It”. He believes that the earth is warming, but that the world’s reaction to it is ridiculous. He also makes many comments in the book talking about how incorrect Al Gore is and about many mistakes in the movie, “Inconvenient Truth”. It is a fairly short book and and easy read with a lot of references.

[Lexington Green]

Go to youtub

search for THE GLOBAL WARMING HOAX - a BBC documentary

[gopgal4life]

Excellent UK documentary shown in it’s entirety on you tube entitled “The Great Global Warming Swindle”. Go to youtube.com and search on the title. Have the popcorn ready.
This should be required in all public schools (as Inconvenient Truth is - my daughter has been shown it TWICE!) as a counterpoint. Watch it together.

[Scarchin]

She should have been given a detailed assignment sheet with a rubric.

Do you have that?

[Resolute Conservative]

Anyone with an IQ over 85.

[canisls]

This is a roundup of global warming refutation resources, kept by a conservative radio host based in Tampa:
http://schnittshow.970wfla.com/globalwarming.html

[Manfred the Wonder Dawg]

Here are 3 of my favorite sites for such research:

http://home.austarnet.com.au/yours/Greenhouse_bullcrap.htm
http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/ice_ages.html
http://www.junkscience.com/

And of course, you can visit John Stossel’s web site, as he recently ran a piece giving the other side a shot at debunking AlGore. http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Stossel/story?id=3751219&page=1

[nickcarraway]

Only if she wants an “F.”

[Doogle]

..and of course if her teacher rebuffs that, tell her to ask the teacher why Alcore went completely numb when ask to take the pledge he expects all other to abide by.....and to further her new found enemy...ask her (the teacher) if she has taken the pledge

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

The Cooling World, Newsweek, April 28, 1975

[DancesWithBolsheviks]

If the course title or section were on detecting and refuting junk science then the movie would be a good choice.

I’m glad I got to vote against Al Gore last week. (Apple shareholder vote for board of directors.)

[tbird-james]

Use this post as well

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1966579/posts

Northern Hemisphere Temperature Anomaly Lowest since 1997 - Global Anomaly Lowest Since 2004
University of Alabama Huntsville; Remote Sensing Systems ^ | 2-7-08 | John Christy/Roy Spencer
Posted on 02/07/2008 11:23:09 AM PST by brookwood
The University of Alabama-Huntsville and Remote Sensing Systems reported that the January 2008 Global temperature anomaly reported by their satellites was negative .044 degrees centigrade. In the Northern Hemisphere the anomaly (deviation from the 30 year average) was negative .11 degrees centigrade, the largest deviation from the average for any single month in over 10 years. This information is unlikely to be reported by the mainstream media. The link is also available at http://www.john-daly.com/ although the graphs are not being updated anymore.

[saganite]

Here you go.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1915764/posts

[tbird-james]

Use this post as well

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1966579/posts

Northern Hemisphere Temperature Anomaly Lowest since 1997 - Global Anomaly Lowest Since 2004
University of Alabama Huntsville; Remote Sensing Systems ^ | 2-7-08 | John Christy/Roy Spencer
Posted on 02/07/2008 11:23:09 AM PST by brookwood
The University of Alabama-Huntsville and Remote Sensing Systems reported that the January 2008 Global temperature anomaly reported by their satellites was negative .044 degrees centigrade. In the Northern Hemisphere the anomaly (deviation from the 30 year average) was negative .11 degrees centigrade, the largest deviation from the average for any single month in over 10 years. This information is unlikely to be reported by the mainstream media. The link is also available at http://www.john-daly.com/ although the graphs are not being updated anymore.

[ConservaTexan]

http://www.weatherquestions.com/Roy-Spencer-on-global-warming.htm

[tbird-james]

Use this post as well

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1966579/posts

Northern Hemisphere Temperature Anomaly Lowest since 1997 - Global Anomaly Lowest Since 2004
University of Alabama Huntsville; Remote Sensing Systems ^ | 2-7-08 | John Christy/Roy Spencer
Posted on 02/07/2008 11:23:09 AM PST by brookwood
The University of Alabama-Huntsville and Remote Sensing Systems reported that the January 2008 Global temperature anomaly reported by their satellites was negative .044 degrees centigrade. In the Northern Hemisphere the anomaly (deviation from the 30 year average) was negative .11 degrees centigrade, the largest deviation from the average for any single month in over 10 years. This information is unlikely to be reported by the mainstream media. The link is also available at http://www.john-daly.com/ although the graphs are not being updated anymore.

[Cicero]

You took the words out of my mouth. The fact that Al Gore got a D in Nat Sci at Harvard, which was generally considered to be a gut course, should say something about his credentials.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

Start with the fact that the Goron begins his case four hundred years ago smack dab in the middle of the “Little Ice Age” so of course, now that the ice age is over, it’s warmer.

[missnry]

Make sure this graphic is in the report....