The case, heard in the civil court, was brought by a school governor against the Secretary of State for Education, in an attempt to prevent the film being distributed to schools. The film is also subject to attack on the grounds that Al Gore was prosecuted in the UK and a judge found many errors in the film. Thompson, when it was actually a combination of Mann’s hockey stick and CRU surface temperature data.

The error of attribution was in reference to a graph of temperature and attributes it mistakenly to a Dr. The error was in the claim that climate change had caused the shrinking of Mount Kilimanjaro, although the evidence that the shrinkage was most likely caused by deforestation did not appear until after the film was made.

One claim was in error, as was one attribution of a graph. Since the release of the film, considerably more evidence has been found in support of the science and projections in the film. The majority of the film, covering issues like Himalayan Glaciers, Greenland and Antarctica losing ice, the severity of hurricanes and other weather phenomena, was accurate and represented the science as it stood. The film was a staid presentation of climate science to date, a round-up of research, science and projections, with many cinematic sequences employed to harness the power of the medium.

Mr Justice Barton yesterday said that while the film was 'broadly accurate' in its presentation of climate change, he identified nine significant errors in the film, some of which, he said, had arisen in 'the context of alarmism and exaggeration' to support the former US vice-president's views on climate change.” ( The Guardian)Īl Gore, certainly the most vilified proponent of climate change anywhere in the world, earned most of this enmity through the success of a film he presented called An Inconvenient Truth (AIT). “Al Gore's Oscar-winning documentary on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, was criticised by a high court judge who highlighted what he said were 'nine scientific errors' in the film.

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