All UK Secondary Schools to view Inconvenient Truth
Reuters is reporting All England schools to see Al Gore climate film.
The government will distribute Al Gore’s dramatic global warming film to all secondary schools in England in its fight to tackle the climate crisis, Environment Minister David Miliband said on Friday.
The announcement came as a panel of the world’s top scientists issued a new report blaming mankind for the crisis and predicting that average temperatures would rise by between 1.8 and 4.0 degrees Celsius this century as a result.
“The debate over the science of climate change is well and truly over, as demonstrated by the publication of today’s report,” Miliband said.
“I was struck by the visual evidence the film provides, making clear that the changing climate is already having an impact on our world today, from Mount Kilimanjaro to the Himalayan mountains,” he added.
Compare and contrast this action to the shambles in the USA, where schools have been blocked form showing the film, as The Washington Post reports Gore Film Sparks Parents’ Anger.
“No you will not teach or show that propagandist Al Gore video to my child, blaming our nation — the greatest nation ever to exist on this planet — for global warming,” [Frosty] Hardison wrote in an e-mail to the Federal Way School Board. The 43-year-old computer consultant is an evangelical Christian who says he believes that a warming planet is “one of the signs” of Jesus Christ’s imminent return for Judgment Day.
How do they find these people, and what sort of name is “Frosty” anyway? Were his parents on drugs when they named him?
The inconvenient truth that Frosty just can’t face is that the USA contributes around a quarter of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, a massive 24 tonnes of CO2 per person; but, in per-captia terms Australia is worse, contributing 28 tonnes per person. In the UK it’s a modest 11 tonnes of CO2 per person. In China and India it’s 1 tonne per person.
Here’s Big Al himself being interviewed in a recent interview on the UK’s Channel 4. — DS
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