Report: Mining Exec Funded Gore Film Trial

(CBS)  It was a curious connection of politics, science, education and the courts: A lawsuit brought by a British father who objected to his school's showing of the global warming documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" to his two children.

The documentary, authored by Al Gore, won critical praise, spectacular box office, and an Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary. But Stewart Dimmock, a school official and truck driver, charged that showing the film to students amounted to politically "brainwashing" them.

A U.K. court sided with the schools, allowing the screenings to continue, though the judge cited several what he termed "inaccuracies" in the film, saying some actions like the melting of snows on Mt. Kilimanjaro could not conclusively be linked to human activities, as Gore and climate scientists contend.

Gore's critics jumped on the judge's findings, as a means to further try to debunk the scientifically-accepted finding that man-made greenhouse gases are increasing the warming of the Earth.

But the story of a parent standing up to school administrators lost some of its "David vs. Goliath" overtone with an article today in The Observer, which reported that Dimmock was standing on well-funded shoulders.

According to the British paper, Dimmock credited an obscure Scottish party, the New Party, with supporting him in the case, without much elaboration. The party promotes lower taxes and an expansion of nuclear power.

The Observer has established that Dimmock's case actually received support from a network of business interests, including those with links to the fuel and mining industries, as well as a local Conservative Party figure.

According to Electoral Commission records, nearly all funding for the New Party came from a mining concern, Cloburn Quarry Limited in Lanarkshire, which contributed almost 1 million pounds between 2004 and 2006. The company's owner, Robert Durward, is also chairman of the New Party, and is a long-time critic of environmentalists.

He also helped form the Scientific Alliance, an industry-backed non-profit with links to other global-warming debunkers (like the U.S.-based George C. Marshall Institute) that have received funding from ExxonMobil.

The Observer also reported that Dimmock received additional support from another source, Straightteaching.com, which established an online payment system inviting contributions to support Dimmock's case, via a proxy domain purchased a month ago through the Arizona-based godaddy.com.

When asked by the Observer who else was backing the Web site, Derek Tipp, a Conservative council member in Hampshire, declined. "There are other people involved but I don't think they want to be revealed," the paper quoted him.

[terrorislam1]

the goracle could not even predict his losing his home state of tennessee in his presidential election lol

Gore gets a cold shoulder
ONE of the world''''s foremost meteorologists has called the theory that helped Al Gore share the Nobel Peace Prize "ridiculous" and the product of "people who don''''t understand how the atmosphere works".
Dr William Gray, a pioneer in the science of seasonal hurricane forecasts, told a packed lecture hall at the University of North Carolina that humans were not responsible for the warming of the earth.

His comments came on the same day that the Nobel committee honoured Mr Gore for his work in support of the link between humans and global warming.
"We''''re brainwashing our children," said Dr Gray, 78, a long-time professor at Colorado State University. "They''''re going to the Gore movie [An Inconvenient Truth] and being fed all this. It''''s ridiculous."
http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/gore-gets-a-cold-shoulder/2007/10/13/1191696238792.html

[drinuk]

Alphaa10, Mindless idiot, The high court were correct, the film is biased, alarmist and in the main untrue. Thank goodness the funding for this hearing and subsequent judgement came from an industrialist, who may be a conservative. What he certainly is not, is one of the Elite behind the Global Warming Scam, which is designed by the Established Western Industrial Nations to place draconian restrictions upon the developing countries thus pushing up the prices at their factory gates, negating the effect upon the Corporate Criminals. It is a Scam and will soon be proven to be so.

[usayesterday]

The health effects are long since proven and obvious, and the best you can do is sit around on the Titanic, and argue over whether captain Smith was a "liberal" or a "conservative"?


Posted by brianbwb at 01:31 AM : Oct 15, 2007
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LOL!

Beautifully said, as usual brian.

[brianbwb-2009]

You partisan arguers are sad.

Whether or not you believe in global warming, the fact is that we pollute our only supply or air and water, and alter the chemical balance of our land. In short, we unnecessarily create a filthy home for our children''s generations, diminishing the world''s capacity to support life.

The health effects are long since proven and obvious, and the best you can do is sit around on the Titanic, and argue over whether captain Smith was a "liberal" or a "conservative"?

[alphaa10-2009]

hawhksprings said, "By the way, all you Global Warming Sheep, here in Cheyenne Wyo, it snowed today. Please tell Father Algore to exagerate some warmth for us..."
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Neither Gore nor any climatologist has said global warming means no snow will fall, or that you never will need snowchains again.

And to argue that global warming is but a subtrend in a much longer natural period still begs the question-- what evidence even suggests such a period?

The "Longer Period" argument against global warming is like claiming proof God does not exist because you recognize no proof He does. Yet, clearly, this might invite your self-contradiction by the hallowed Cheney Principle-- "Absence of proof is not proof of absence."

As for me, I need to warm up for tomorrow, and am signing off.

[alphaa10-2009]

hawksprings gasped, "Omigosh alphaa, how many times did Mrs. Clinton say she didn''''t remember when she was testifying?"
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This is the old GOP game of finding the exception which is supposed to disprove an embarrassing trend. For example, using only press-based information, the GOP salivated over Rep. Jefferson''s apparent guilt, then condemned the same press for daring to mention Abramoff, Cunningham, Delay, Hsstert, et al, within an incriminating context.

By the same token, Mrs. Clinton DID do the "cannot recall" but she is hardly representative of her party, or a series of Bush figures which have taken the Virtual Fifth before committee.

Bush appointees and staff (including Gonzales) routinely would evade congressional questions-- or, at Bush''s instructions, skip an appearance altogether. Even members of your own party were disgusted at Gonzo''s performance, and joined with Dems in subpoenas to many Bush figures.

Even GOP members of congress do not issue their subpoenas to be ignored (or deceived) by Bush and minions.

[rudy654-2009]

By the way, all you Global Warming Sheep, here in Cheyenne Wyo, it snowed today. Please tell Father Algore to exagerate some warmth for us. Maybe he needs to crank up the heat in his outdoor pool some more.Good night! Posted by hawksprings at 12:16 AM

Oh wow! You got snow in October? In Wyoming? That must mean everything is normal. No need to worry about those disappearing glaciers in that National Park north of you, right? I live just west of you, and you know what? Last week we got snow too! Of course, it went back to 80 degrees this weekend. Oh well, go back to sleep and pretend that it is all just a bad dream.

[hawksprings]

I''d love to stay and argue some more, but I gotta go to bed. The Rockies are up 3-0 over the D-backs, woohoo!

By the way, all you Global Warming Sheep, here in Cheyenne Wyo, it snowed today. Please tell Father Algore to exagerate some warmth for us. Maybe he needs to crank up the heat in his outdoor pool some more.

Good night!

[hawksprings]

How typical of liberals when they are caught lying to try to change the subject.

[alphaa10-2009]

How typical GOP and UK conservatives would stoop to a fabricated cause celebre-- a hoax-- to whine about Al Gore and global warming. In itself, this is abject admission they cannot find scientific basis for rebuttal.