UK judge should've waited to issue this ruling: 'Alarmism' in Gore film

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Looks like the UK judge has been overruled by the Nobel Prize Committee! Ha!

UK judge: 'Alarmism' in Gore film

LONDON, England (AP) -- Some of the assertions in Al Gore's Oscar-winning environmental documentary are not supported by scientific evidence, a British judge said in ruling on a challenge from a school official who did not want the film shown to students.

Al Gore's documentary is founded on science and fact, but in the context of exaggeration, a judge said.

The ruling was published Wednesday and it detailed High Court Judge Michael Burton's decision this month to allow film showings to go ahead in English secondary schools. But the judge said that written guidance to teachers designed to ensure Gore's views are not presented uncritically must accompany the showings.

Burton said he had no doubt the points raised in "An Inconvenient Truth" about the causes and likely effects of climate change are broadly accurate, but he found they were made in "the context of alarmism and exaggeration."

Gore's film "is substantially founded upon scientific research and fact," Burton said. "Albeit that the science is used, in the hands of a talented politician and communicator, to make a political statement and to support a political program."

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1. It's hilarious watching men who reject all foreign courts

quoting the judge's few errors.

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3. Is this man a scientist, a film critic or a judge?

I heard a few of his objections to the film and they seemed to be rooted firmly upon personal opinion, not science.

I've been looking at this stuff for at least as long as 'ol Al and, if anything, his conclusions on film about what we're in for were far more conservative than mine.

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2. My, what a honking load of crap from this judge

he basically admits that it is not science he objects to, but the narrator.

This judge should lose his seat for this, IMO.