As Al Gore was winning the Nobel Peace prize, a UK Judge ruled that An Inconvenient Truth contained claims based on 9 scientific errors, making it a political statement and thus unfit for inclusion in the UK school syllabus.
In an earlier post, I challenged one of these claims. Another claim is Kilimanjaro's shrinking ice cap, which in the movie, was also blamed on global warming. Yet temperature data from weather stations show lower temperatures for the region (and lower humidity). This suggests another cause for the shrinking ice cap. A plausible cause is deforrestation and the resultant lower humidity in the region. [Ed: think frost free freezers]
Coming back to the judge though, if identical principles were applied, what chance would religeous instruction have in being taught at school?
Perhaps we are not ready to go there though. As Voltaire said: "It's dangerous to be right, when the government is wrong" [Ed: ...or the masses are wrong. (sorry, couldn't resist ;-)
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