Wednesday, October 03, 2007

UK Schools Must Warn of Gore Film Bias

Kudos, for once, to the UK. Schools now have to warn students about the bias inherent in Al Gore's snoozefest film, "An Inconvenient (not to mention unproven) Truth". Here is the story from the Daily Mail:
Schools will have to issue a warning before they show pupils Al Gore's controversial film about global warming, a judge indicated yesterday.

The move follows a High Court action by a father who accused the Government of 'brainwashing' children with propaganda by showing it in the classroom.

Stewart Dimmock said the former U.S. Vice-President's documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, is unfit for schools because it is politically biased and contains serious scientific inaccuracies and 'sentimental mush'.

He wants the video banned after it was distributed with four other short films to 3,500 schools in February.

Mr Justice Burton is due to deliver a ruling on the case next week, but yesterday he said he would be saying that Gore's Oscar-winning film does promote 'partisan political views'. This means that teachers will have to warn pupils that there are other opinions on global warming and they should not necessarily accept the views of the film.
Maybe there is hope that the global warming cult can be defeated.....