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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In a posting purporting to be about accuracy in filmmaking, it’s a pity the author repeatedly gets the name of the film wrong. For the record, the title is “An Inconvenient Truth.”
Moving to matters of substance, why is it a “lie” that the film used computer-generated images of the Antarctic ice shelf? The film also used computer animation and computer graphics. The credits, too, were done by computer. Are those “lies” as well? The film was “lying” when it showed animation of a frog in a boiling pot? By that reasoning, the author must be tormented by unending mendacity every time he views a commercial, a television show, or a movie because they, too, use computers in their imaging. In fact, the pen at the top of this site is not a real pen but a computer-generated image. It must pain the author to be presenting his ideas under such a “fabrication.”
Golly, yes, your noticing that I deliberately dropped the article “an” from the film title, and then the article followed by the adjective “inconvenient” in the next reference, has cut me to the bone. I am so ashamed to have gotten the name of “AIT” incorrect. How dare I? At least I got Al’s title “god-king of global warming” correct. Or at least I assume so, since you didn’t dispute that. …
Oh, and yes, it pains me greatly that computer-generated images exist — almost as much as it pains me that Al Gore presents the CGI footage of ice shelves as being real footage of real ice, ergo, that he lies. (For others unfamiliar with the concept, when a person — say a god-king of global warming — presents something as being true — say in a movie known as “Truth, An Inconvenient” — but knows it to be untrue, that is what the ancients used to call a “lie.” ) So, why is a lie a lie? Umm — and I’m just spit-ballin’ here — maybe because it’s a lie?
But thanks for playing.
Comment by Marcus Atherton — April 23, 2008 @ 8:10 am
Al Gore didn’t invent the internet. But he did invent Global Warming!
Comment by Bryant — April 23, 2008 @ 4:48 pm