Friday, October 16, 2009
Crazy Crap / Obituary / Politics Commie FAIL: Best Local Liberal Curiously Absent From Our Best of Nashville Readers' Poll
Posted by Tracy Moore on Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 12:29 PM
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Best Local Liberal
1. Mary Mancini
2. Al Gore
3. Larry Woods
Wrong Woods...Jeff Woods.
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This is as good a time as any to let everyone in on Algor's brand of liberalism.
The Court in the UK said Algor's film could not be shown to little school chidren without a disclaimer:
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.) Eleven inaccuracies have to be specifically drawn to the attention of school children.
How marvelous. And what are those inaccuracies?
* 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.
Too bad, John: you haven't learned the basic operating premise of Comments. Nobody, not even your mama, is gonna read anything near that long. I personally didn't get past "Government."
If you wanna pontificate, get yourself a blog. Then you can have maybe, what, half a dozen people reading your pontifications.
Now, if you got to HERE, you're the exception to the rule.
Well, ADHD, take your Ritalin and settle down; read something about stuff you probably rarely see around here.
john could at least give a source for his copy-and-paste job. Conservapedia maybe?
Yes, Marvin, I did do some cut and paste but I liked the way it came out. There are plenty of Google links if you had bothered to look.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/7037671.stm
I posted this one as it is not exactly a bastion of conservatism.
Thanks for the link, john, that you didn't bother to post earlier, which mentions nine errors, not eleven, and also says, "Mr Justice Burton said he had no complaint about Gore's central thesis that climate change was happening and was being driven by emissions from humans."
When you copy and paste in the future, just give a source, that's all, so readers can find possible errors in your post (however unlikely) and see other info you might have innocently failed to mention.
By the way, the judge's ruling doesn't seem unreasonable.
God knows I try.
Thank you, Marvin. I do the best I can. but I am not a frequent dedicated blogger, perhaps a bit slip shod even.
It does seems I am being held to a higher standard.
BTW, you sound a little too pedantic for my taste.
More food for thought:
An 'error' is not the same thing as an error
"A UK High Court judge has rejected a lawsuit by political activist Stuart Dimmock to stop the distribution of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth to British schools. Justice Burton agreed that
"Al Gore's presentation of the causes and likely effects of climate change in the film was broadly accurate."
There were nine points where Burton decided that AIT differed from the IPCC and that this should be addressed in the Guidance Notes for teachers to be sent out with the movie.
Unfortunately a gaggle of useless journalists have misreported this decision as one that AIT contained nine scientific errors."
http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2007/10/an_error_is_not_the_same_thing.php
To the particular point about the polar bears that drowned, the British judged apparently attributed the deaths to a bad storm with no correlation to climate change. However, it seems the original report implies the reason the bears drowned in the storm is because they were stuck out in open water when the storm hit, too far away from any ice because the ice has melted so much. In any event, melting ice cannot be good news for the polar bears.
Is Global Warming Killing the Polar Bears?
Marvin, I enjoyed your link and it makes me feel even worse for not providing one. The trouble is it does not settle the issue.
Anyway, it has been cold lately.
