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[Rogerdodger]

We have all heard that a UK Court fond 9 Inaccuracies in Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth".

But now, on Friday, it was revealed by ABC News that one of the famous shots of supposed Antarctic ice shelves in the film was actually a computer-generated image from the 2004 science fiction blockbuster "The Day After Tomorrow."

Gore Used Fictional Video to Illustrate 'Inconvenient Truth'
By Noel Sheppard | April 22, 2008

AL GORE:And if you were flying over it in a helicopter, you'd see it's 700 feet tall. They are so majestic.

SAM CHAMPION (ABC NEWS): Wait a minute, that shot looks just like the one in the opening credits of "The Day After Tomorrow."

KAREN GOULEKAS (VISUAL EFFECTS SUPERVISOR):Yeah, that's, that's our shot. That's a fully computer generated shot. There's nothing real in there.

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A more honest approach would have been a full disclosure that this was a computer generated shot of Styrofoam.
But excluding that fact (and others) has proven more persuasive.

Edited by Rogerdodger, 23 April 2008 - 11:42 PM.

[stocks]

A group of scientists have challenged the IPCC to admit that there is no evidence that human activity drives climate change. Specifically, they sent a letter this month to the Chairman of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change asking those associated with the panel to:

retract support from the current IPCC position and admit that there is no observational evidence in measured data going back 22,000 years or even millions of years that CO2 levels (whether from man or nature) have driven or are driving world temperatures or climate change.

And they issue this challenge: "If you believe there is evidence of the CO2 driver theory in the available data please present a graph of it."

The letter is signed by Hans Schreuder (Analytical Chemist), Piers Corbyn (Astrophysicist ), and Dr Don Parkes Svend Hendriksen (1988 Nobel Laureate), and a copy is available at a website operated by the International Climate Science Association. (here)

Evidence presented in the letter goes well beyond putting the “hockey stick” graph, made famous in Al Gore's movie, in doubt. The hockey stick presented exponentially increasing global temperature in the near future due to uncontrolled increases in CO2 – and got its name from the shape of the graph – an apparently long stable period with an upward increase in CO2 and temperature during the industrial age. The UN panel claimed that human activity was driving what Mr. Gore explained as a certain end to civilization as we know it, if extreme political and economic measures are not taken.

The scientists assembled a graph based on actual measurements and did not find evidence that CO2 was the main driving force behind temperature. In fact, temperature increases and decreases, showing little interest in CO2 level.

http://mensnewsdaily...rming-position/

[Rogerdodger]

Al's "doctored" documentary reminds me of another famous Global Warming hoax.
Remember this photo of
"Stranded dying polar bears"?

Global warming sees polar bears stranded on melting ice

By BILL MOULAND February 2007

They cling precariously to the top of what is left of the ice floe, their fragile grip the perfect symbol of the tragedy of global warming.
Captured on film by Canadian environmentalists, a pair of polar bears remain stranded on chunks of broken ice.

Well Guess what?
After the alarming photo appeared world-wide in numerous newspapers and magazines, it turns out that is was not what it claimed to be!

Australian TV Exposes 'Stranded Polar Bear' Global Warming Hoax
Photo of Noel Sheppard.
By Noel Sheppard | April 6, 2007 - 12:05 ET

This photo was published in the Sunday Telegraph.
It made it onto the front page of the New York Times.
And the International Herald Tribune.
It also ran in London's Daily Mail, The Times of London and Canada's Ottawa Citizen - and that's just to name a few.
All used it as evidence of global warming and the imminent demise of the polar bear.

But the photo wasn't current. It was two and a half years old.
And it wasn't snapped by Canadian environmentalists.
It was taken by an Australian marine biology student on a field trip.
And in what month did she take it?
"The time of year was August, summer."
— Email from Amanda Byrd to Media Watch
Summer, when every year the fringes of the Arctic ice cap melt regardless of the wider effects of global warming.
LINK

The bears were not stranded or dying, but appeared to be playing on the floating ice, just as polar bears have done for thousands of years.

Edited by Rogerdodger, 24 April 2008 - 11:32 PM.

[Rogerdodger]

Polar Bear Baby Boom Occurring
Photo of Noel Sheppard.
By Noel Sheppard | May 11, 2007

Global warming is not killing the polar bears of Canada's eastern Arctic, according to one ongoing study. Scheduled for release next year, it says the number of polar bears in the Davis Strait area of Canada's eastern Arctic – one of 19 polar bear populations worldwide – has grown to 2,100, up from 850 in the mid-1980s.

For those keeping score, that’s an almost 150 percent increase in two decades.

The article continued:

"There aren't just a few more bears. There are a ... lot more bears," biologist Mitchell Taylor told the Nunatsiaq News of Iqaluit in the Arctic territory of Nunavut.

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