Gore: An Inconvenient Verdict in UK

As the Nobel Prize committee was pondering whether Vice President Gore deserved a peace prize for his work in raising awareness about the dangers of climate change, a British judge has castigated the former vice president for a catalog of errors in his Oscar-winning documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth."...Judge Chides Gore on Eve of Nobel Award, Nicholas Wapshott, The New York Sun, October 12, 2007

While the Democrat demiurges bow and scrape in the general direction of Al Gore, in the UK High Court Justice Michael Burton drew his bow and fired some arrows at the preening ig-Nobelist -- to wit:

The judge listed nine substantial errors in Mr. Gore's film (Inconvenient Truth). The first was his claim that due to the melting of ice in Antartica or Greenland, sea levels would rise 20 feet "in the near future." The judge said: "This is distinctly alarmist and part of Mr. Gore's ‘wake-up call.' It was common ground that if Greenland melted it would release this amount of water … but only after, and over, millennia."...As for Mr. Gore's contention that low-lying Pacific atolls were "being inundated because of anthropogenic global warming," the judge said there was no evidence that the atolls were being evacuated...Mr. Gore's claim that global warming was "shutting down the Ocean Conveyor," the means by which the Gulf Stream travels over the North Atlantic to western Europe, was met by the judge with a quote from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that it was "very unlikely" the conveyor would be shut down, though it might slow...The judge also knocked down one of Mr. Gore's central arguments, illustrated in the film by graph lines suggesting that the rise in carbon dioxide and the rise in the earth's temperature over 650,000 years showed "an exact fit." While conceding that there was general agreement among scientists that there was a correlation between the two events, "the two graphs do not establish what Mr. Gore asserts."...Judge Chides Gore on Eve of Nobel Award

The Justice did not ban the showing of the film, but suggested that such an alarmist list of misinterpretations might be shown in concert with other points of view.

This won't affect the Demo-demiurges, though. Never let a convenient misinterpretation get in the way of setting policy objectives. That's been a general credo for the Left for a century as it's sent one society after another into turmoil, bankruptcy, war, and, not so occasionally, one Holocaust after another.

The Nobel committee's decision says more about them than it says about Al "Can't Get Enough Power" Gore, however. Some day, we can hope that a Nobel Peace Prize doesn't have a political objective, but don't expect that to happen soon. What you can expect is a whole lot of effort to get Warming Al to run for President.

Luther