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Last week, a UK court lowered the boom on liberal school teachers and ruled that Al Gore’s An 
Inconvenient Truth “. . . does promote ‘artisan political views“ and “11 inaccuracies have to be specifically drawn to the attention of school children.”
At last . . . now maybe the U.S. education system will follow the example and wise up. I know here in the ultra-liberal Great Northwest, worried parents are extracting their kids from the public educational system to homeschool them.
While the showing of An Inconvenient Truth wasn’t the full cause, it was one of the last straws in a string of incidents that included Gore’s film scaring the piss out of kids and they went home regurgitating
bad science and partisan politics to horrified parents.
Here are clips from my favorite parts of the article. Click the link for the full education . . .
“The move follows a High Court action by a father who accused the Government of ‘brainwashing’ children with propaganda by showing it in the classroom.
Stewart Dimmock said the former U.S. Vice-President’s documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, is unfit for schools because it is politically biased and contains serious scientific inaccuracies and ’sentimental mush’.
. . . saying that Gore’s Oscar-winning film does promote ‘partisan political views’.
This means that teachers will have to warn pupils that there are other opinions on global warming and they should not necessarily accept the views of the film.
. . . ‘I wish my children to have the best education possible, free from bias and political spin, and Mr Gore’s film falls far short of the standard required.’
. . . ‘no amount of turgid guidance’ could change the fact that the film is unfit for consumption in the classroom.’
. . . during the three-day hearing, the court heard that the critically-acclaimed film contains a number of inaccuracies, exaggerations and statements about global warming for which there is currently insufficient scientific evidence.”
Schools must warn of Gore climate film bias | the Daily Mail
Fair & Balanced In The Classroom?
Too bad schools aren’t mirroring news organizations like Fox News, where both sides of the argument are presented and the viewers are allowed to decide for themselves. When was the last time you saw a fair debate on CNN? NBC? ABC? CBS? MSNBC? On those channels, if they have both sides represented then it’s one titular conservative and 3 liberals.
Funny . . . but I digress.
I would be all for Gore’s film being shown if documentaries like The Great Global Warming Swindle were also shown and books like The Politically Incorrect Guide To Global Warming were represented alongside global warming books and films.
And, oh yeah — better sure the discussion is moderated by someone other than just the teacher.
Why?
Since most teachers vote Democratic (data from teacher unions’ political contributions prove this, you can look it up yourself) and since most Democrats believe in the Gore film, then I would want to ensure that the teacher doesn’t squelch opposing points of view, which often happens in U.S. classrooms.
Man, I would love to sit in on those balanced discussions, wouldn’t you? Imagine, young minds grasping with essential issues and learning the power of debate and thinking for one’s self . . . while sifting through the data to sort opinion from fact.
It would create a new generation of free thinkers and more astute minds. But, the teachers unions will never allow this to happen. Nor will the ACLU.
Ahhh . . .
****UPDATE!****
Thanks to an average citizen and concerned parent, UK teachers, in order to show An Inconvenient Truth, the Government must first amend their Guidance Notes to Teachers to make clear that:
1.) The Film is a political work and promotes only one side of the argument.
2.) If teachers present the Film without making this plain they may be in breach of section 406 of the Education Act 1996 and guilty of political indoctrination.
3.) Eleven inaccuracies have to be specifically drawn to the attention of school children.
Here are the 11 inaccuracies in the film:
- The film claims that melting snows on Mount Kilimanjaro evidence global warming. The Government’s expert was forced to concede that this is not correct.
- The film suggests that evidence from ice cores proves that rising CO2 causes temperature increases over 650,000 years. The Court found that the film was misleading: over that period the rises in CO2 lagged behind the temperature rises by 800-2000 years.
- The film uses emotive images of Hurricane Katrina and suggests that this has been caused by global warming. The Government’s expert had to accept that it was “not possible” to attribute one-off events to global warming.
- The film shows the drying up of Lake Chad and claims that this was caused by global warming. The Government’s expert had to accept that this was not the case.
- The film claims that a study showed that polar bears had drowned due to disappearing arctic ice. It turned out that Mr Gore had misread the study: in fact four polar bears drowned and this was because of a particularly violent storm.
- The film threatens that global warming could stop the Gulf Stream throwing Europe into an ice age: the Claimant’s evidence was that this was a scientific impossibility.
- The film blames global warming for species losses including coral reef bleaching. The Government could not find any evidence to support this claim.
- The film suggests that the Greenland ice covering could melt causing sea levels to rise dangerously. The evidence is that Greenland will not melt for millennia.
- The film suggests that the Antarctic ice covering is melting, the evidence was that it is in fact increasing.
- The film suggests that sea levels could rise by 7m causing the displacement of millions of people. In fact the evidence is that sea levels are expected to rise by about 40cm over the next hundred years and that there is no such threat of massive migration.
- The film claims that rising sea levels has caused the evacuation of certain Pacific islands to New Zealand. The Government are unable to substantiate this and the Court observed that this appears to be a false claim.
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Inconvenient Truth “. . . does promote ‘artisan political views“ and “11 inaccuracies have to be specifically drawn to the attention of school children.”