Inconvenient Censorship Stanford U. Bans Climate Film from Airing

[The Straight Story]

Inconvenient Censorship Stanford U. Bans Climate Film from Airing

Stanford University has banned a documentary film from airing a climate change interview with one of its prominent warming activist professors, Stephen Schneider. After legal threats from Stanford University, the documentary filmmakers were forced to use a blank screen and an actor had to read the transcript of Schneider's banned climate interview. The skeptical global warming documentary "Not Evil Just Wrong", set for its international premier on October 18, 2009, interviewed Schneider about his flip flop from a coming ice age proponent in the 1970s to his current advocacy of man-made global warming fears. Schneider is a professor of biological sciences at Stanford University. (email: [e-mail] This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )

Irish filmmaker Phelim McAleer told Climate Depot: "Lawyers for Stanford University have tried to ban our documentary from reporting on how one of their professors previously predicted an imminent ice-age, but is now a leading global warming advocate." (Schneider joins others like Obama Science czar John Holdren. See: Climate Depot's Factsheet on 1970s Coming 'Ice Age' Claims -- 'Fears of a coming ice age, showed up in peer-reviewed literature, at scientific conferences, by prominent scientists and throughout the media')

To watch the "banned" video excerpt from "Not Evil Just Wrong" of an actor portraying Schneider's interview click here.

Climate Depot has obtained a copy of Stanford University's legal letter prohibiting the Irish filmmakers from airing Schneider's interview in which he is questioned about his inconvenient conversion from a global cooling advocate in the 1970s to a present day global warming activist.

'You are prohibited'

Stanford University sent a scathing letter to the documentary makers declaring: "You are prohibited from using any of the Stanford footage you shot, including your interview of Professor Stephen Schneider. Professor Schneider likewise has requested that I inform you that he has withdrawn any permission for you to use his name, likeness or interview in connection with any film project you may undertake."

http://www.rightsidenews.com/200910066740/energy-and-environment/inconvenient-censorship-stanford-u-bans-climate-film-from-airing.html

[TomCADem]

1. Seems Like A Smear Film, Rather Than A Discussion Of Climate Change

Indeed, the description of the film appears to be along the lines of some scientists were talking about possible Ice ages in the 1970s, therefore there is no current consensus on the effects of humans on the climate, so lets put off efforts to regulate carbon emissions forever.

[BlooInBloo]

2. Yep.