Al Gore's "Fake but Accurate" Nobel

Posted By Uncle Jimbo

So it is all but certain the Goracle will be coronated as emperor of the disappearing icecaps by the Nobel Committee. By the rules of polite international society he certainly deserves it. These prizes have nothing to do with Peace, they have everything to do with toeing the liberal activist line and Al has been front and center. Global Warming is the new religion and Al is a high priest so he must be given badges of office and they will hang his prize around his neck shortly. His crowning glory is his "documentary" the inconveniently named An Inconvenient Truth

So obviously everyone should see this vital, fact-filled film right? Well the Brits were showing it to all their school kids and one parent found this problematic. Somehow he had managed to miss all his programming appointments and he was able to see the Moore-like truthiness of the film. He sued and the British courts, in a crazy moment of common sense agreed. Even better than stopping them from showing it, they said you can show it but you have to tell the kids about the biggest lies and falsehoods before they watch it. Heh and re-heh. Here is the list.

* 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.

God I hope he runs for President. He and Hilly hate each other and the fireworks would be brilliant.

Jules Crittenden is riffing on the Nobel theme and the Goracle as well.

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[Lands’nGrooves]

Don't forget, he also invented the internet.

[Grimmy]

The Algorecle and his Profiteers of Doomination.

[socalangel]

Don't even get me started on this propaganda piece! As a parent of a middle-schooler, I have had to do more deprogramming than I care to discuss here. But, one of the major problems with this type of propagandizing is that it undermines the teaching of Critical Thinking and Scientific Methods. And not only at the elementary or secondary level, but at the universities in our nation. The left really shows it's true colors when they go to extremes to squelch ideas refuting Gore's ideology. But this corrupts the process of funding grants for scientific research (that may result in evidence contradicting his dogma). What do you think will happen to anyone attempting to publish research that doesn't support the idea that Global Warming is largely a man-made phenomena? I am disturbed by the notion that this will lead to a new Inquisition denouncing and punishing heretics of Global Warming theory. I just hope there are enough parents out there who will speak up and stop the indoctrination of our children and the corruption of academia.
I guess our next dinnertime civics discussion will revolve around the Nobel Peace Prize and how it is awarded!

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During the Clinton administration, I was at an Air Force Association meeting in Niagara Falls talking to some USAF Reserve C130 crews whose secondary mission was Presidential and VP transport into fields were big aircraft cannot go.

One crew had just taken the Gores and some VP staff people on a trip. They picked up the party at Andrews MD. Before they started engines, a staffer asked the female airmen flight attendant what lunch would be. A menu item was a salad with Shitaki mushrooms. The staffer asked if she could have some extra mushrooms. The airman said she could and called the request into the Andrews kitchen who complied.

Two hour into the flight when the salads were served, Tipper looked at the staffer's salad and asked how she got extra mushrooms. Tipper demanded that the crew get her extra mushrooms too. Of course, the crew got the items from their own lunches. I was a very telling incident, especially as it relates to Clinton-Gore attitude toward the military.

Had I been the aircraft commander, I would have turned 180° and told Al that we were returning to Andrews for more mushrooms at his wife's direction. Before I would permit any crew member to give that arrogant bitch one mushroom, I would have thrown every mushroom out the side window.

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[pst314]

A Peace Prize would be doubly ironic, given the fact that Al Gore has made a career of vilifying those who disagree with him as "evil". Such a wonderful contribution to civil peace. /sarcasm. None of the Gores should be trusted with any sort of power.

[Cincinnati_Bob]

Well, I think Pres. Amafuggajob (said with a smile in a Jerry Seinfeld kinda way every time the other pronunciation is used..) should get the Nobel Peace Prize for Not Nuking anyone in 2006.

Man I can't stand these A's anymore.