An Inconvenient Truth
tlambert | October 27, 2010Georgina Robinson in Sydney Morning Herald reports:
[An Inconvenient Truth] will be used in the English curriculum as part of studies around the theme of sustainability, a spokesman for the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority said.
It is not a required text but will be used by English teachers to "analyse the way language and emotion can be used to convince viewers of a particular position", the spokesman said.
Students may also be directed to undertake their own research on the film's claims, he said.
This sounds like a good idea. The SMH has one of those unscientific…
tlambert | December 3, 2009Andrew Bolt claims that "new research" "once more shows Al Gore faked his findings in An Inconvenient Truth". He offers his own translation of something which he attributes to "Elsevier": (Yes, the company that publishes The Lancet.)
Frormer [sic] American vice president and Nobel Prize winner Gore has for years used the melting snow on Africa's highest mountain (5892 metres) for his climate propaganda. The snow cover is shrinking and that is caused by man and his greenhouse gases!
The Dutch scientist Jaap Sinninghe Damsté debunks this story of climate guru Gore in the leading periodical…