British Govt being sued over Al Gore's movie in schools

[environmentalist]

A truck driver/volunteer school governor from Dover has sued the British government for distributing Al Gore's AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH to their secondary schools:

The British government's decision to circulate Al Gore's film about climate change to all English secondary schools was challenged in court Thursday by a school governor who believes it is inaccurate and biased.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21016312

This is, of course, the same Britain that had all that flooding in Oxfordshire this year. But then, that was college, not secondary school and the fellow suing is from Dover where, apparently, the white chalk cliffs haven't melted yet.

"Given the serious inaccuracies in the film and the misrepresentations it contains, the film is irredeemable," Downs, the lawyer for plaintiff Stewart Dimmock told the judge.

I dunno. I kinda liked it.

The British Government's plan was to send the DVD to 3,500 schools as a way to stimulate children's interest in sustainability. The trucker/part time school governor insists the movie is "just over half scientific material, 30 percent pure politics and about 20 percent sentimental mush - mush there to soften up the viewer for persuasion" and that it was "scaring children into a particular point of view."

The judge is to view the film and then he will review websites offering an 'alternative point of view.'

Um, will that be Rush Limbaugh's crusade against global warming that recently was honored with the "flat earth award" (along with Michael Crichton - don't get me started on him...)...

A drover from Dover is our expert on science now... Must be the British equivalent of those fellows with their dinosours-r-us museums.

Posted by The Environmentalist