Friday, February 15, 2008

Video Clip

This video was made by a respectable German TV channel called “das erste”.

It deals mainly with the environmental activist Al Gore. In this video the statements Al Gore made in “the inconvenient truth” are checked thoroughly. Al Gore is presented as exploiter of the whole global warming issue. Other scientists are asked about the statements Al Gore made and they mostly disagree with his analysis of the issue. The opinions of most of the scientists in this video were mainly not that as harsh as Al Gore’s and some even talked of the human impact of global warming as being a miniscule factor. Too many natural cycles can be blamed for the current global climate trends.

As a result Siegmar Gabriel, a German politician, ordered 6000 documentaries featuring global warming for students in Germany to study. However it must be said that the makers of the video intend to prove that Al Gore is wrong. As a result these videos probably won’t show reference scientists whose opinion is that Al Gore is right. Furthermore, to viewers of the video it is more interesting to learn about the limitations of Al Gore’s analysis than any relevant information. So we can safely say that the makers of that movie are bias.

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