An Inconvenient Truth gets pulled from classroom

[Dfresh]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/4500796.html

Evangelist are dumb.

[5stringJeff]

The school district in question, about half an hour from where I live, was barred from showing the film unless they showed the other side of the global warming debate.

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Unfortunately, the film was unable to be shipped due to the ice storms that our area has had this past month. Global warming advocates were unable for comment, since the sanding trucks couldn't get up the hill to their homes.
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[stephanie]

When did Al Bore become a scientist or a meteorologist???

And why do they believe his crap should be shown in our schools as if, it's the gospel truth...

[avatar4321]

Yeah, its so incredibly dumb to not want our children mislead by propaganda. Heaven forbid we want them to learn actual science instead of politicized junk science.

[neener]

Link to "Actual Science" disproving global warming??

[Gaffer]

Real science says there is global warming, due to natural climatic changes and cycles. There's a lot more out there to cause warming and cooling than man. Solar and volcanic activity being the most prominent.

Gore junk science is just more garbage to scare people into believing what he wants them too.

[neener]

LOL.

Okay.

Link to "actual science" saying man isn't contributing to global warming.

[manu1959]

man is not the cause of global warming....show me a link proving that man is the cause.

[Insein]

LOL.

Okay.

Link to "actual science" saying man isn't contributing to global warming.

How about, Link to "actual science" proving man is the cause of global warming? How do i prove a negative?

[Grumplestillskin]

When did Al Bore become a scientist or a meteorologist???

And why do they believe his crap should be shown in our schools as if, it's the gospel truth...

See the movie, then be our guest - rebut the film point by point...

[Grumplestillskin]

Yeah, its so incredibly dumb to not want our children mislead by propaganda. Heaven forbid we want them to learn actual science instead of politicized junk science.

Which part is junk science?

That's for you too Gaffer....

[neener]

Okay, here's a starter for you.

The earth is warming. Temperatures at the Earth's surface increased by an estimated 1.4°F (0.8°C) between 1900 and 2005. The past decade was the hottest of the past 150 years and perhaps the past millennium. The hottest 22 years on record have occurred since 1980, and 2005 was the hottest on record.

The growing scientific consensus is that this warming is largely the result of emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from human activities including industrial processes, fossil fuel combustion, and changes in land use, such as deforestation. Projections of future warming suggest a global increase of 2.5ºF (1.4ºC) to 10.4ºF (5.8ºC) by 2100, with warming in the United States expected to be even higher. In addition to warming, increases in sea level and changes in precipitation, including more frequent floods and droughts, are likely. These changes, over time, are referred to broadly as "climate change".

Unaddressed, climate change will have significant impacts across the United States and around the world. For instance, sea-level rise will add to stresses coastal communities are already facing, including erosion, storms, and pressures from development. In the arid and semi-arid western United States, relatively modest changes in precipitation can have large impacts on already limited water supplies. Terrestrial, freshwater, and coastal ecosystems of the United States are particularly sensitive to climate change, threatening biodiversity and ecosystem goods and services such as fisheries and recreation. Even human health may be threatened as heat waves, extreme weather, and vector-borne diseases become more prevalent.

While some of the effects of climate change may be positive, such as longer growing seasons in the northern United States and Canada that increase productivity of agriculture and forests, these positive impacts are unlikely to be sustained as the globe continues to warm. Furthermore, even while the nation as a whole benefits, certain regions or sectors, such as the southern United States, may suffer. Similarly, many developing countries are even more vulnerable to the adverse impacts of climate change and less able to adapt. As nations continue to grow more interdependent, the United States may not be immune from impacts experienced elsewhere.

Most projections of future impacts do not address what could happen if warming continues beyond 2100, which is inevitable if steps to reduce emissions are not taken, or if the rate of change accelerates. Furthermore, the longer warming persists and the greater its magnitude, the greater the risk of climate “surprises” such as abrupt or catastrophic changes in the global climate.

Even if we are able to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, some further warming is unavoidable. We must plan and take action now to adapt to the changes we will face as our climate changes.

This section of our site provides a basic primer on climate change, including facts and figures about global warming, a report on the science of climate change, frequently asked questions, a glossary of terms, and other online resources.

For more detailed information on a variety of climate change issues, including the economics of global warming, environmental impacts, potential solutions, policy implications and international issues, please see the Global Warming In Depth section of this site.

http://www.pewclimate.org/global-war...basic_science/

[neener]

Also, I'm sure if there is an actual scientific debate about what is causing global warming, it shouldn't be too hard for you nonbelievers to find a scientific article stating man isn't the cause.

Or, it could be, just maybe, that the only debate is political in nature and you'll bring me a press release from Exxon-Mobile on why liberals hate trees for producing CO2.

[neener]

And Here's an interactive learning tool for all of you from that bastian of liberal bias, NASA.

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Lab...ntroMovie.html

I promise learning doesn't hurt.

[neener]

From the above cited NASA videos, the transcripts of the films that deal directly w/ human activities contributing to global warming.

The Section Titled: Human Activities and Carbon Dioxide

Everyday human activities release stored carbon from the solid earth into the atmosphere. You will be able to explain how human activities release stored carbon into the atmosphere.

Carbon is found in all living things and is also found in sediment, rocks, the ocean and the air we breathe.

Carbon is exchanged between the oceans, solid earth, biosphere and atmosphere through various natural processes.

The largest exchanges occur between the biosphere and atmosphere through photosynthesis and decomposition.

Living plants grow by absorbing carbon dioxide during photosynthesis. When plants die, bacteria decompose them and return carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

For thousands of years, the processes that added and subtracted carbon dioxide from the atmosphere were in balance.

Since the Industrial Revolution, however, human society has become increasingly dependent upon machines that release carbon to the atmosphere.

Fossil fuels such as coal, gasoline, oil and natural gas contain high concentrations of carbon that have been stored in the solid earth for hundreds of millions of years.

When we burn fossil fuels for heat, transportation, and electricity, large quantities of carbon that would otherwise remain stored in the solid earth are released into the atmosphere in the form of carbon dioxide.

In summary, the dependence of human society on fossil fuels leads to a build up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

The Section Titled: Modern Atmospheric Concentrations of Carbon Dioxide

The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is increasing. This movie will help you describe how the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has changed over the last 100 years.

At the start of the Industrial Revolution, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was about 280 parts per million by volume.

As industrialization spread, the consumption of fossil fuel, that is oil, gas and coal, rapidly increased. By the late 1940¹s the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration had risen to 300 parts per million.

After World War II, automobiles became the favored mode of transportation in the United States and industrialization grew rapidly across the globe.

Today, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has risen to 360 parts per million.

This increase is alarming because the rate at which carbon dioxide is being released into the atmosphere continues to steadily increase.

Human activities currently release about 6.5 billion tons of carbon into the air per year.

Each year, as all nations intensify industrial development, this amount grows.

The atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration is now higher than it has been in the last 100 thousand years.

At current rates, atmospheric carbon dioxide is expected to reach twice the pre- industrial level, 560 parts per million, within the next 100 years.

In summary, the pre-industrial level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere had been consistently less than 300 parts per million for the past 100 thousand years.

Since the Industrial Revolution, the level has risen to 360 parts per million and is expected to reach 560 parts per million within the next 100 years.

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