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As a follow-up to this post — and a warm up entry after a week long hiatus caused in no small part by the spot of trouble in which my old man managed to put himself, we've got a couple of closely related news in a much befitting timing, if you ask me.

First, the New Party (UK) publishes the High Court judgement on Stewart Dimmock's legal action — I urge you to visit the New Party website (which is going straight into my blogroll anyway, as this look like one of the very few sane initiative that came from British politics lately, at least since the Tories went for the very Social-Sarkozic David Cameron and his preposterous drift towards the Great Global Ecoloscare game) — but this is just too good and ought to be republished on as many sites as possible:
The decision by the government to distribute Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth has been the subject of a legal action by New Party member Stewart Dimmock. The Court found that the film was misleading in nine respects and that the Guidance Notes drafted by the Education Secretary's advisors served only to exacerbate the political propaganda in the film.

In order for the film to be shown, the Government must first amend their Guidance Notes to Teachers to make clear that 1.) The Film is a political work and promotes only one side of the argument. 2.) If teachers present the Film without making this plain they may be in breach of section 406 of the Education Act 1996 and guilty of political indoctrination. 3.) Nine inaccuracies have to be specifically drawn to the attention of school children.

The inaccuracies are:
  • 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 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.
Ouch at the power of nine.

Stewart Dimmock and the New Party just proved that just because they're only happy when it rains and want you to die young, broken, freezing and starving, doesn't mean that Al Gore and the Environazis can't be challenged successfully. We can only hope that this judgement will bring many others; In the words of Che Guevara, Hasta la Victoria siempre.(1)

Next, Albert Arnold Gore(2) was awarded the Nobel Peace prize. Just like Yasser Arafat and Jimmy Carter.

And that's all there is to say about that(3).
  1. Yep, I willingly confess a mean and sarcastic pleasure in quoting the Left's sociopathic heroes for this kind of purpose.
  2. Which then bears the question: shouldn't his diminutive be Al Al Gore? (Hallal Gore?) Okay, I'm just fooling around. Maybe. UPDATE: and that would be Al Ar Gore anyways. Doesn't work as well then, and I ought to stop drinking while blogging.
  3. Both with respect to Gore's company on the Norwegian Hall of Shame, and the subsequent utter worthlessness of said prize.

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2826 - bonmotdot

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Actually, French Froggie, "Alar" Gore isn't such a stretch after all. You may or may not be familiar with the Alar scare. That was one of the first manufactured crises ginned up by the eco-tards in the USA back in the day. One day out of the blue the media began screaming at us that they were SPRAYING OUR APPLES WITH ALAR!!!! All of a sudden giving an apple to your baby to gnaw on took on ominous undertones.

"Hide your children! Take shelter! Abandon your cars!" screamed the MSM. It put a dent in the apple industry for a while until people figured out you'd probably have to drink buckets of the stuff in order to produce two-headed children in the next generation or something equally dire.

We don't hear much about Alar anymore. I'd probably have to go do research on it to find out what made Alar go away. We've had so many other media scares since then I have lost track. But it was kind of the tip of the spear (can we use that phrase with eco-tards?) as far as their testing the waters to see how easily they could manipulate people to believe man was destroying himself with chemicals. (I never understood the people who were afraid of a little pesticide you could wash off an apple, yet their ilk would ingest whole pharmacies of substances of dubious origin sprayed with non-USDA approved toxins as part of their recreational usage.)

2827 - bonmotdot

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alar

You inadvertently struck gold with your new nickname, French Froggie! I salute you! (The last paragraph of this wikipedia entry says it all:)

Elizabeth Whelan and her organization, the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) worked to establish a narrative of the Alar episode as a scare. The ACSH claimed that Alar and its breakdown product UDMH had not been shown to be carcinogenic. Whelan's campaign was so effective that today, Alar scare is shorthand among news media and food industry professionals for an irrational, emotional public scare based on propaganda rather than facts.

2829 - Grimmy

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  • Grimmy Where I'm at.

Oh so cool! Thanks Mr Frogman and fellow comment posters!

I have updated the name of he who should not be mentioned without redicule to Alar Goracle, Chief Priest of the Cult of the Doominators and leader of the Profits of Doomination"

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2832 - Chris Edwards

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Has someone left the"i" out of Alar?

2836 - TooTall

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[quote]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. [/quote]

An understandable mistake. I often mistake violent storms for disappearing ice. No one with a liberal leaning can hold this against Al Bore.