'Largely inaccurate tripe': Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth', fifteen years on

https://www.sott.net/article/458282-Largely-inaccurate-tripe-Al-Gores-An-Inconvenient-Truth-fifteen-years-on

Al Gore's climate change movie was hailed as revolutionary a decade and a half ago when it was released to much fanfare but, in the intervening years, the truths have, inconveniently, turned out to not be truths at all.

Fifteen years ago today, failed US presidential candidate, Al Gore, released what can be best described as a scare movie called 'An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming And What We Can Do About It'. The movie was a global hit and Gore won an Oscar; he also received the Nobel Peace Prize.

Gore had succeeded in making global warming sexy. Everyone wanted to get in on the act to show how eco-friendly they were, particularly celebrities. And everyone else had to sign up to the agenda because, as we still hear so often today, "the science is settled."

I remember that when I became a member of the European Parliament's Environment Committee, over a decade ago now, I was sent a copy of both the DVD and the book. I think it was designed to be our Bible, especially when fear-mongering about global warming...which the committee did over and over again. I then stopped going.

But the movie wasn't just aimed at adults, or gullible MEPs, it was designed to scare our children. Schools around the world showed the movie and the complimentary book appeared in their libraries. As a result, children became terrified of the impending climate doom, which led to 'climate anxiety' and even now is giving our little ones sleepless nights.

However, the wheels quickly started to come off An Inconvenient Truth. In 2007, the High Court of England and Wales ruled that the film contained nine scientific inaccuracies relating to "the context of alarmism and exaggeration." From that point onwards, schools had to provide a counterbalance to the 'one sided' arguments contained in the film.

Anyway, I digress. I wanted to write this piece to mark the fifteenth anniversary of An Inconvenient Truth's release and see how some of Gore's apocalyptic predictions stand up today. I have chosen three - but could have covered many, many more.

Read on: https://www.sott.net/article/458282-Largely-inaccurate-tripe-Al-Gores-An-Inconvenient-Truth-fifteen-years-on

Anyhow, I think we can all agree that Gore's claims are more outlandish than an Extinction Rebellion protest. But the climate alarmists are not stupid, and they have learnt from their mistakes. Although they have not toned down their hyperbole, they realised they needed a more convenient person to make these outlandish claims.

You see, Gore was the Greta of his day. The difference, however, was that Gore, as a former politician, was not impervious to criticism. The climate alarmists learnt that it is better to have a teenage schoolgirl, who is beyond reproach, as your mouthpiece rather than a crusty former politician. It's all very sinister when you think about it.

Nevertheless, it may be fifteen years on and many of Gore's claims have turned out to be hyperbolic hogwash, but that hasn't stopped the climate alarmists from making similar claims. And I really do hope I am around in fifteen years to write another piece about how the scare stories that emanate from Greta also amount to nothing. That is if I am not burnt to a crisp or under water by then, which, somehow, I very much doubt will be the case.