35 Inconvenient Truths

Denny at Grouchy Old Cripple links to a wonderful post outlining 35 wrong "facts" about Al Gore's movie. Christopher Monckton writes at Science and Public Policy:

35 Inconvenient Truths
A spokesman for Al Gore has issued a questionable response to the news that in October 2007 the High Court in London had identified nine �errors� in his movie An Inconvenient Truth. The judge had stated that, if the UK Government had not agreed to send to every secondary school in England a corrected guidance note making clear the mainstream scientific position on these nine �errors�, he would have made a finding that the Government�s distribution of the film and the first draft of the guidance note earlier in 2007 to all English secondary schools had been an unlawful contravention of an Act of Parliament prohibiting the political indoctrination of children.

Al Gore�s spokesman and �environment advisor,� Ms. Kalee Kreider, begins by saying that the film presented �thousands and thousands of facts.� It did not: just 2,000 �facts� in 93 minutes would have been one fact every three seconds. The film contained only a few dozen points, most of which will be seen to have been substantially inaccurate. The judge concentrated only on nine points which even the UK Government, to which Gore is a climate-change advisor, had to admit did not represent mainstream scientific opinion.

Ms. Kreider then states, incorrectly, that the judge himself had never used the term �errors.� In fact, the judge used the term �errors,� in inverted commas, throughout his judgment.

Next, Ms. Kreider makes some unjustifiable ad hominem attacks on Mr. Stewart Dimmock, the lorry driver, school governor and father of two school-age children who was the plaintiff in the case. This memorandum, however, will eschew any ad hominem response, and will concentrate exclusively on the 35 scientific inaccuracies and exaggerations in Gore�s movie.

Ms. Kreider then says, �The process of creating a 90-minute documentary from the original peer-reviewed science for an audience of moviegoers in the U.S. and around the world is complex.� However, the single web-page entitled �The Science� on the movie�s official website contains only two references to articles in the peer-reviewed scientific journals. There is also a reference to a document of the IPCC, but its documents are not independently peer-reviewed in the usual understanding of the term.

And on and on and on with references, citations and quotes. Quite the wonderful stompdown... The 21 page PDF file can be found here. Good stuff which needs to be spread around more. It is well past time to get off the Anthropogenic Warming bandwagon and back into the charted regions of peer-reviewed Science. #1) - Sun is a variable star. #2) - Historically, we know that Earth's climate changes. #3) - We are entering a warming period. #4) - Mars, Jupiter and Pluto are also warming now. (read here and here)