The inconvenient truths of Al Gore's filmmaking

It looks as though Al Gore has actually been promoting fiction as fact in his highly-publicized global warming crusade. It was discovered recently that one of the key sequences in his highly-acclaimed documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, focusing on the effects of global warming on icebergs, was actually computer-generated footage from the blockbuster film, The Day After Tomorrow. In ABC's 20/20 report on this revelation, they asked an compelling question, "Is it wrong for a documentary to use a fabricated Hollywood shot to make a point even if there's science behind it?" Interestingly, when ABC tried to ask this question of Al Gore and his movie studio, neither of them responded to the calls.

Comments

[chris corwin]

newsbusiness?

bias?

not them, surely

[Ben]

You have to dig, but there is data out there that shows the oceans are not getting warmer, but actually a little cooler. Just found this blog that speaks to this point.

http://reversevampyr.blogspot.com/2008/03/paging-al-gore-3000-scientific-robots.html

[Resident Atheist]

I encourage everyone to read the Junk Science story every Friday on foxnews.com. Steven Milloy does an outstanding job calling into question much of the environmental rhetoric. He is certainly not unbiased, but it is nice to hear another side of the story on occasion.

[John]

RA, you raise a valid disclaimer about bias. Who among us, after all, is ever completely without bias. It is the common denominator from which we cannot escape and through which we must distill fact from fiction, regardless of the issue. It is only the naive who would suggest complete objectivity, or the disillusioned among us who are blinded to their own biases. So, the big question in global warming (or anything else, for that matter) is, "What is the truth?"