Oh dear

Have just started a new semester at university. In my compulsory subject, "An Inconvenient Truth" is a required text.

*head desk*


Its going to be a long semester.

They should not allow cartoons in college .

Jasmine, I'm a teacher and I know how difficult that can be for intelligent people who are not taken in by the lies spewed by the likes of Al Gore.

Here are a few good sites and information rebutting Gore's book of lies. It's up to you if you want to make a rebuttal in the class. I'd suggest you may not want to. Just be true to yourself and your beliefs and remember you are there to get a degree, an education and get as much positive things out of the time there as you can.

Good luck.

http://scottthong.wordpress.com/2007/10/30/35-scientific-errors-or-intentional-lies-in-an-inconvenient-truth/


35 Scientific Errors (or Intentional Lies) in An Inconvenient Truth


By Scott Thong


BONUS: An Inconvenient Truth 2: Suggested Film Titles!
So last you heard, Al Gore’s propaganda film, ‘A Collection of Convenient Outright Lies’ ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ was found to contain at least 9 serious errors… By the British High Court no less.
Now, ramp that up to at least 35 serious errors.
As I’ve learnt from Is It Getting Warmer,
the Science and Public Policy Institute has reviewed all of Al Gore’s
convenient misrepresentations and determined 35 key facts that Gore
portrayed wrongly. The blog host also meticulously researched each of
the SPPI’s criticisms and gives a rundown of the accuracy of each claim
at this link.
Gore could have gotten his facts through his scientific
incompetence, or perhaps by getting his information from only certain
biased sources.
But my personal opinion is that Gore INTENTIONALLY LIES throughout the film. He is dishonest, manipulative, sneaky and utterly self-serving.
If you think my remarks are unfair and unfounded, just remember that Al Gore has been shown to change his stance 180-degrees and lie for personal political gain, he stands to profit immensely if governments enforce carbon offsets out of fear, and he totally does not subscribe to his own directives to us to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
So yes, I do think he intentionally lies throughout his film, in order to spread hysteria and panic about global warming.
Below are the 35 errors pointed out by the SPPI article, with my
short summary of the actual truths behind each dishonest fib. See the
full explanations at Science and Public Policy Institute article:
THE 35 BLATANT ERRORS OR LIES IN ‘AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH’
1. Sea level “rising 6 m”
Even the IPCC’s maximum estimate is a mere 59cm… In the year 2100.
2. Pacific islands “drowning”
They aren’t. The sea levels around the Maldives haven’t changed for 1250 years. Same goes for Vanuatu.
3. Thermohaline circulation “stopping”
In reality, it is strengthening.
4. CO2 “driving temperature”
It is a clear and well accepted fact that temperature drives CO2 levels.
5. Snows of Kilimanjaro “melting”
Temperature at the summit never rises above freezing. Most of the melt occured before 1936.
6. Lake Chad “drying up”
It also dried up in 8500BC, 5500BC, 1000BC and 100BC. Where was our carbon-polluting human industry then?
7. Hurricane Katrina “man made”
Maximum hurricane wind speed and number of hurricanes has not increased.

8. Polar bears “dying”
Four bears died in a storm. Four. Measly. Bears. Meanwhile, there are 25000 polar bears today compared to 5000 in 1940.
9. Coral reefs “bleaching”
It was caused by an unusual El Nino pattern, not global warming.
10. 100 ppmv of CO2 “melting mile-thick ice”
Gore overstates the effect of CO2 ten times greater than even the IPCC’s highest estimate.
11. Hurricane Caterina “manmade”
Air temperatures in the area were the coldest in 25 years, not warmest.
12. Japanese typhoons “a new record”
Tropical cyclone frequency has fallen in the past 50 years.
13. Hurricanes “getting stronger“
They haven’t in 60 years.
14. Big storm insurances losses “increasing”
Insured losses in hurricane-prione areas were lower in 2005 than 1905.
15. Mumbai “flooding”
There’s been no increase in rainfall over 48 years.
16. Severe tornadoes “more frequent”
Severe tornadoes have fallen in frequency for the last 50 years. Tropical storms are also at the lowest frequency in decades.

17. The sun “heats the Arctic ocean”
The ocean emits more heat than it receives from the sun.
18. Arctic “warming fastest”
It’s actually 1 degree cooler now than in 1940.
19. Greenland ice sheet “unstable”
The ice sheet did not break up during the last three times when the temperature was 5 degrees hotter than today.
20. Himalayan glacial melt waters “failing”
The snow melt which provides water has not decreased in 40 years.
21. Peruvian glaciers “disappearing”
For the past 10,000 years the Peruvian ‘glacier’ region has been mostly ice free.
22. Mountain glaciers worldwide “disappearing”
Human CO2 output has had no effect on the already-present glacier shortening trend.

23. Sahara desert “drying”
In the past 25 years, the Sahara shrunk by 300,000 square kilometres due to increased rainfall.
24. West Antarctic ice sheet “unstable”
Antarctic ice is at its thickest in nearly 28 years.
25. Antarctic Peninsula ice shelves “breaking up”
Gore concentrates on the 2% of Antarctica that is experiencing some warming, while conciously neglecting to mention the 98% of Antarctica that is cooling.
26. Larsen B Ice Shelf “broke up because of ‘global warming’”
The ice shelfs have been breaking up since 10,000 years ago.
27. Mosquitoes “climbing to higher altitudes”
The graph says it all: Wrong.

28. Many tropical diseases “spread through ‘global warming’”
None of the diseases quoted are tropical, none are affected by
increasing temperature, and some even cause more harm at colder
temperatures.
29. West Nile virus in the US “spread through ‘global warming’”
West Nile virus flourishes in any climate, from desert to ice.
30. Carbon dioxide is “pollution”
Forests are thriving due to the increasing CO2 levels.
31. The European heat wave of 2003 “killed 35,000″
Cold snaps kill people, but the IPCC does not include the number of lives that would be saved due to less cold weather.
32. Pied flycatchers “cannot feed their young”
A few tens of kilometres north, and there is no notable difference.
33. Gore’s bogus pictures and film footage
Gore plays fast and loose with falsely used images.
34. The Thames Barrier “closing more frequently”
It is closed to retain tidal water in the Thames.
35. “No fact…in dispute by anybody.”
Do I even have to mention these?Climate Audit

Climate Skeptic

Global Warming Hysteria

Is It Getting Warmer?

Global Warming Fears

CONCLUSION: It’s clear that Al Gore and his film
have got the facts totally wrong, reversed, upside-down and etc on
almost every count. An Inconvenient Truth is truly an amazing piece of bullcr@p, and it’s even more amazing that anybody still trusts anything it and Gore have to say.




http://www.nypost.com/seven/03222007/postopinion/opedcolumnists/als_warming_lies_opedcolumnists_iain_murray.htm

Jasmine,
Also know that over 31,000 scientists have signed a petition refuting the lies of global warming or climate change.

http://www.oism.org/pproject/

http://www.tulsabeacon.com/?p=462


Thousands of scientists sign petition against global warming


by Charles Biggs




It’s about time that liberals like Al Gore come up with a new crisis. Global warming (climate change) is running out of steam.

Bob Unruh of WorldNetDaily reported that 31,000
U.S. scientists - 9,000 with doctorate degrees in atmospheric science,
climatology, Earth science, environment and other specialties - have
signed a petition rejecting global warming.


The list of scientists includes 9,021 Ph.D.s,
6,961 at the master’s level, 2,240 medical doctors and 12,850 carrying
a bachelor of science or equivalent academic degree.

Global warming assumes that human production of greenhouse gases is destroying the Earth’s climate.

According to the petition, “There is no convincing
scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or
other greenhouse gases is causing, or will in the foreseeable future,
cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of
the Earth’s climate.

“Moreover, there is substantial scientific
evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many
beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of
the Earth.”

The Petition Project www.petitionproject.org has
been underway for 10 years. It’s a gradual movement but it was spurred
on by the release of Gore’s “documentary” An Inconvenient Truth.

Gore’s movie claims there is a “consensus” and
“settled science” about human-caused global warming. It was
particularly unsettling because teachers all across the country showed
the movie to students to indoctrinate them in global warming.

“Unfortunately, Mr. Gore’s movie contains many
very serious incorrect claims which no informed, honest scientist could
endorse,” said project spokesman and founder Art Robinson.

Robinson said Gore’s folly has gone so far that it is damaging people’s lives.

“The campaign to severely ration hydrocarbon
energy technology has now been markedly expanded,” he said. “In the
course of this campaign, many scientifically invalid claims about
impending climate emergencies are being made. Simultaneously, proposed
political actions to severely reduce hydrocarbon use now threaten the
prosperity of Americans and the very existence of hundreds of millions
of people in poorer countries,” Robinson said.

Is this politics versus science? Yes. Which is
more dangerous, Gore’s false claims or the policies that spring from
his deception?

Liberals blame global warming for recent shark
attacks off the shore of California, typhoons, earthquakes and just
about any natural disaster.

And the effort is aimed at the pocketbook of every American.

Our federal government is close to an
international agreement that would ration our use of energy. The
targets are coal, oil, natural gas and other organic compounds.

But honest research shows that atmospheric carbon dioxide is environmentally helpful.

This energy agreement would really hurt emerging
economies that are trying to lift their people out of extreme poverty
and into modern lifestyles. That includes about four billion people.

The 1997 Kyoto Agreement was signed by
then-President Bill Clinton but never ratified by the U.S. Senate. If a
Democrat is elected president and the Democrats gain more seats in the
Senate, it could become law in this country.

There is no reason for the United States to import
energy. We have the natural resources, the technology and the
initiative to provide all our needs domestically.

We lack the political willpower.

The United Nations is trying to ban research into
oil research, exploration and development. They think their agenda must
prevail. Their goal is wealth redistribution through vilification of
hydrocarbons.

America was built on freedom. We don’t want people from other countries telling us we can’t drive cars or expand our businesses.

When America prospers, the entire world prospers.

The Petition Project website www.petitionproject.org> reports there are 31,072 scientists who have signed up and that list is growing.

This is further complicated as Sen. John McCain
makes statements that he believes in global warming and it will be a
top priority if he is elected president. He wants to be the
“environmental president” or the next Teddy Roosevelt.

My hope is that this is simply campaign rhetoric to lure liberal Democrats and Republicans to vote for him.

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton would rush to change our laws to accommodate local and international environmentalists.

They would be worse than McCain because they
support wealth distribution through confiscatory taxation and
internationalism. We’ll all be riding bicycles to work for four years
if they get elected.

McCain is unwittingly supporting wealth
distribution. If he were to sign on to his own party’s platform, he
would reject global warming (climate change) and embrace real science.

Humans have little impact on the weather.

Conservatives want a clean, healthy environment. We don’t want industrial pollution.

But we want jobs, we want a decent standard of living and we want a middle class.

Al Gore and his radical environmental fascists
want to run every facet of our lives. And we can’t let them do that in
the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Thats it then, Global warming IS crap as I always believed!

People who deny that global warming is a fact are the same that denied that the Holocaust happened.

Obama Rulz wrote:People who deny that global warming is a fact are the same that denied that the Holocaust happened.

your jokes suck

Thanks for the links guys. My first assignment is to watch it and write about my thoughts. ^_^ I have a feeling I won't be graded too highly on this piece.

-Grace

Jasmine Grace wrote:Thanks for the links guys. My first assignment is to watch it and write about my thoughts. ^_^ I have a feeling I won't be graded too highly on this piece.

-Grace

So how did it go?

submarinepainter wrote:

Jasmine Grace wrote:Thanks for the links guys. My first assignment is to watch it and write about my thoughts. ^_^ I have a feeling I won't be graded too highly on this piece.

-Grace

So how did it go?

22 out of 40. 55%. And a one word comment; "Interesting"

^_^