A judge has ruled on a British citizen's accusation that the United Kingdom's distribution of An Inconvenient Truth to secondary schools amounts to political indoctrination. And the strange, strange verdict is: Yes, the documentary can be shown in schools -- as long as teachers follow guidelines to not promote Al Gore's "partisan political views" to impressionable schoolchildren. Because remember in the movie when Al Gore said "Kids, climate change is bad so you should always vote Democrat?" Yeah. Us neither.
source: BBC News, Associated Press
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mseall Posted 6:12 am
03 Oct 2007
Although I agree with most of the content of the film, I am not sure if it's propaganda style is the best way to educate children on the topic.
My concern is that we show them Gore's film one week, and then show them The Great Global Warming Swindle the next week for a "balanced view". Not the best way to educate children about scientific process.
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CyberBrook Posted 8:28 am
10 Oct 2007
They, and we, should also be teaching about this inconvenient truth about global warming:
http://www.ivu.org/members/globalwarming.html
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