The Many Errors of An Inconvenient Truth

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A story of science, media, and the gulf between. Get Nebula using my link for 40% off an annual subscription: https://go.nebula.tv/simonclark Watch The Colorado Problem on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/wendover-the-colorado-problem-a-river-in-the-red?ref=simonclark An Inconvenient Truth is a documentary film from 2006 by Al Gore. The year after it was released it was hauled in front of the UK high court, and found to be riddled with errors. What are these errors, and what can they tell us about climate science? Kat's guest video: https://youtu.be/gF9G7g1nTDk Thomas' guest video: https://youtu.be/cg8cjYS-zgY REFERENCES: 1. https://elaw.org/content/uk-stuart-dimmock-v-secretary-state-education-and-skills-2007-ewhc-2288-admin-inconvenient-t 2. https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/03/WGI_TAR_full_report.pdf 3. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/29/major-sea-level-rise-caused-by-melting-of-greenland-ice-cap-is-now-inevitable-27cm-climate 4. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0921818111001445?via%3Dihub 5. https://interactive.carbonbrief.org/polar-bears-climate-change-what-does-science-say/ 6. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature03089 7. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2006JD008303 8. https://www.geo.umass.edu/climate/tanzania/pubs/kaser_etal_2004_ijc.pdf, note that Kilimanjaro is interesting: precipitation patterns have shifted, but this seems to be in response to natural climate change 9. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-62417-w 10. https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_WGII_SummaryForPolicymakers.pdf 11. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abn7950 You can support the channel by becoming a patron at http://www.patreon.com/simonoxfphys ---------- II ---------- More about me https://www.simonoxfphys.com/ My second channel - https://www.youtube.com/simonclarkerrata Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/simonoxfphys Insta - https://www.instagram.com/simonoxfphys Twitch - https://www.twitch.tv/drsimonclark ---------- II ---------- Music by Epidemic Sound: http://epidemicsound.com Some stock footage courtesy of Getty. Edited by Luke Negus. Thanks to Matt Lazo for their work helping compile the literature for this project. This video is about An Inconvenient Truth, the documentary film by Al Gore about climate change, global warming, carbon emissions and sea level rise. We talk through the Dimmock court case that led to a judge ruling An Inconvenient Truth was inaccurate in nine ways and changing its distribution to schools. Is An Inconvenient Truth propaganda? No, but Al Gore is making a political point in An Inconvenient Truth. Huge thanks to my supporters on Patreon: Quinn Sinclair, Ebraheem Farag, Fipeczek, Mark Moore, Philipp Legner, Zoey O'Neill, Veronica Castello-Vooght, Heijde, Paul H and Linda L, Marcus Bosshard, Liat Khitman, Dan Sherman, Matthew Powell, Adrian Sand, Stormchaser007 , Daniël Sneep, Dan Nelson, The Cairene on Caffeine, Cody VanZandt, Igor Francetic, bitreign33 , Rafaela Corrêa Pereira, Thusto , Andy Hartley, Lachlan Woods, Andrea De Mezzo. Christian Weckner, Frida Sørensen, Ned Funnell, Corné Vriends, Aleksa Stankovic, Indira Pranabudi, Chaotic Brain Person, Simon H., Julian Mendiola, Woufff, Ben Cooper, Mark Injerd, dryfrog, Justin Warren, Angela Flierman, Alipasha Sadri, Calum Storey, Riz, The Confusled, Conor Safbom, Simon Stelling, Gabriele Siino, Ieuan Williams, Tom Malcolm, Brady Johnston, Rapssack, Kevin O'Connor, Timo Kerremans, Thomas Rintoul, Lars Hubacher, Ashley Wilkins, Samuel Baumgartner, ST0RMW1NG 1, Morten Engsvang, Cio Cio San, Farsight101, Haris Karimjee, K.L, fourthdwarf, Sam Ryan, Felix Freiberger, Chris Field, ChemMentat, Kolbrandr, , Shane O'Brien, Alex, Fujia Li, Jesper Koed, Jonathan Craske, Albrecht Striffler, Jack Troup, Sven Ebel, Sean Richards, Kedar , Alastair Fortune, Mat Allen, Colin J. Brown, Mach_D, Keegan Amrine, Dan Hanvey, Simon Donkers, Kodzo , James Bridges, Liam , Wendover Productions, Kendra Johnson.