Tad Cronn

April 23, 2008

Global warming: Al Gore lies again

The Nobelly empowered Al Gore, god-king of global warming, has been caught in yet another lie in his movie “Inconvenient Truth.”

ABC News revealed on Friday’s “20/20″ that in one scene purporting to show actual collapsing ice shelves, Gore actually used computer-generated footage from the sci-fi movie “The Day After Tomorrow.”

In a touch of irony, the segment was delivered by Sam Champion, a prominent warming alarmist.

But before you start thinking that ABC has had a sudden recurrence of journalistic integrity, understand that “20/20″ did its best to bury the lead in a lengthy segment focusing on shaky science in blockbuster movies. The information about Gore’s film was tossed at the end of a much longer discussion of films such as “Poseidon Adventure,” “Twister” and various movies that came out years ago.

ABC posted a version of the segment on its Web site that ends before the information about Al Gore. Here is an audio file of the Al Gore segment.

This is about the hundredth time a fabrication has been spotted in “Inconvenient Truth,” including a list of points that a British court has ruled must be pointed out to schoolchildren before they can be shown this movie in a classroom.

It’s getting to the point that about the only true thing in the Academy Award-winning “Truth” is that it was put together by Al Gore.

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