An Inconvenient Court Ruling

Al Gore's Oscar winning film ''An Inconvenient Truth" is politically partisan and contains nine scientific errors, British High Court Judge Michael Burton ruled in a suit brought by Stewart Dimmock, a part-time school governor in Kent. Mr. Dimmock sought an injunction against having the film shown to school children on the basis the film was too inaccurate and full of political bias. While agreeing the film is "broadly accurate," and "climate change is mainly attributable to man-made emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide ('greenhouse gases')," Judge Burton said some of the claims were wrong and in "the context of alarmism and exaggeration." The judge recommended the film be shown in U.K. schools only if accompanied with written guidance to teachers designed to prevent Gore's views from being promoted uncritically to children.

The nine scientific errors identified by Judge Burton include claiming:

• the sea levels would rise by 20ft in "the near future"
• atolls in the Pacific had already been evacuated
• two graphs showing carbon dioxide levels and temperatures over the last 650,000 years were an "exact fit"
• the Gulf Stream that warms up the Atlantic ocean would shut down
• the drying of Lake Chad
• the loss of Mount Kilimanjaro’s snows
• the cause of Hurricane Katrina
• polar bears were drowning while searching for icy habitats melted by global warming
• coral bleaching is attributed to climate change

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