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Title: Judge rules Gore climate film requires guidance notes
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http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=071010140820.maha1rm
URL Source: http://www.breitbart.com/article.ph ... 140820.maha1rmv&show_article=1
Published: Oct 10, 2007
Author: staff
Post Date: 2007-10-10 12:43:11 by angle
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A judge on Wednesday ruled that Al Gore's award winning climate change documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" should only be shown in schools with guidance notes to prevent political indoctrination. High Court judge Michael Burton's decision follows legal action brought by a father of two last month claiming the former US vice-president's film contained "serious scientific inaccuracies, political propaganda and sentimental mush". Stewart Dimmock wanted to block the government's pledge to send more than 3,500 secondary schools in England and Wales a DVD of the documentary to demonstrate the need to fight global warming. Judge Burton said the Oscar-winning film should be accompanied by government guidance notes and to distribute it without them would breach education laws prohibiting the promotion of unbalanced political viewpoints. But the victory was only partial, as Dimmock failed to get the film totally banned from schools. The lorry driver said after the case that he was "elated", but disappointed he had not secured an outright ban. "If it was not for the case brought by myself, our young people would still be being indoctrinated with this political spin," he told reporters. Dimmock is a member of the New Party, a fringe political organisation which describes itself as "a party of economic liberalism, political reform and internationalism." Its supporters include industrialists and small- and medium-sized businesses. The party accepts climate change is a major issue but says the argument that it is man-made is not unequivocal. Instead, it argues for developing new technologies, building new nuclear power stations and providing "positive incentives" for developing countries to support cleaner technologies
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