Inconvenient Truth stirs controversy in Seattle suburb
The school board in Federal Way, Washington, south of Seattle, has restricted showings of Al Gore’s film on global warming and said it must be balanced with a sufficient opposing viewpoint.
An Associated Press article in the Vancouver Sun said the board also required the school superintendent to approve when Gore’s film, An Inconvenient Truth, can be presented.
The decision followed complaints from parents who said their child was taking the film as fact after viewing it at school.
"Condoms don't belong in school, and neither does Al Gore,” said a parent of seven who doesn't want the film shown at all. “He's not a schoolteacher."
The board president said he'd received about a half-dozen complaints from parents. None of the board members who voted for the restrictions has seen Gore’s film.
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The SeattlePI's excellent
Here you go.
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Pigou Club, you're wrong.
Pigou Club, you're wrong. See here for a review by a climatologist:
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=299
About being wrong
Gore had the IPCC data, he just wanted people to think things will be much worse than are projected by scientists.
Not mentioning the IPCC numbers is, in my opinion, dishonest.
like what?
The movie
Pigou, Gore says 10 F (which
Pigou, Gore says 10 F (which is equivalent to the upper bound, 5.8 C), not 10 C. Gore also says that if the Greenland ice or West Antarctic ice should melt, sea levels would rise 6 m (20 ft). He never mentioned that this would occur by 2100.
You're completely off base here, Pigou.
10 C is correct
Read the text from RealClimate:
“Simply extrapolating this correlation forward in time puts the temperature in 2100 A.D. somewhere upwards of 10 C warmer ”
Viewers get that impression by viewing the chart Gore presented while not telling the real IPCC data.
Yes, Gore never said that Greenland will melt by 2100.. He manipulates the viewer into thinking that. He never says: “there is no way this will happen anytime soon” so the viewer thinks this is a real warning.