SOCIAL: A little environmental help please

[Geoff Davis]

A more neutral version:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/7037671.stm
The movie *can *be show in schools, but there needs to be a disclaimer.

It sounds like the gist of the issue is this:

Increased CO2 in the atmosphere is leading to all sorts of changes in the
climate, but it is extremely difficult to say that any particular event is a
direct result of increased CO2 emissions.    Gore was trying to tell a
story, so he showed specific events (e.g. Katrina) and suggested that global
climate change may have been responsible.  It's hair splitting.



On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Jennifer Seuferer <
jenniferseuferer at gmail.com> wrote:

> So today I walked in on a conversation in my office lunch room between two
> men known for their conservative & republican political views. They were
> talking about the environment and global warming. I won't go into everything
> they were saying because it makes me so mad I want to throw something but
> one thing they said was that Al Gore's "Inconvenient Truth" could not be
> shown in British schools because of all the inaccuracies in the film. I
> googled this and found this article and was wondering if anyone on Social
> could speak to some of the points in this. What concerns me is the men I
> overheard discussing this were using this to basically write off global
> warming or the things people do to try to help as ridiculous and uneducated.
> If you have time please read this and let me know what you think. Its not a
> very long article.
>
>
> http://www.heartland.org/policybot/results/22160/British_Court_Rules_Inconvenient_Truth_Represents_Partisan_Political_Views.html
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