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Nobel and Nine Errors
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
10.12.2007
The news that Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize is worthy of attention for many reasons, principally that the former vice-president is not known for achieving peace among warring nations or factions. Neither is the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, with whom Al shares the prize. The news obscured another story about Al Gore's Oscar-winning documentary. That got screened in a British court, which found it contained nine errors, including the material on Mt. Kilimanjaro, polar bears, Lake Chad, and the bleaching of coral. On October 10, Judge Sir Michael Burton took issue with the film's "alarmism and exaggeration," according to news reports. The film's “apocalyptic vision” was politically partisan and not an impartial analysis of the science of climate change.
As the Washington Post reported, the ruling was the result of a lawsuit by school official Stewart Dimmock, who called Gore's film inaccurate, politically biased and "sentimental mush." Judge Burton ruled that teachers must alert students to the errors.
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