Published by on 03 Jun 2008
Al Gore: The speech he needs to give
Paul MacRae, October 14, 2007
I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis.
–Al Gore, interview with Grist magazine, May 9, 2002
Hi. I’m Al Gore, and I used to be the next president of the United States.
This month, a British court found that my global-warming film An Inconvenient Truth was more political propaganda than a science documentary, and couldn’t be shown in schools in that country unless the teachers said very clearly that parts of it were based on ideology, not scientific facts.(1)
It seems the judge compared nine points I’d made with what the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had written and found I’d got them wrong. The IPCC is considered the world’s scientific authority on global warming, so maybe I should have stuck to what they said. Continue Reading »
