...so says the headline of a Guardian news paper report from one week ago (this has very likely been covered already in other climate blogs but I am too far behind on my blog reading to know any better!)
The school governor who challenged the screening of Al Gore's climate change documentary in secondary schools was funded by a Scottish quarrying magnate who established a controversial lobbying group to attack environmentalists' claims about global warming.
Hardly the grassroots at work here, surprise surprise. Al Gore's spokesperson hase already addressed the ruling's list of 9 "errors" in An Inconvenient Truth, you can read that response on the Washington Post's blog here.
More like this
In a new regular column over at DesmogBlog, Chris Mooney elaborates on the arguments first offered here.
According to this brief from The Washington Post, Al Gore will be publishing a book next year entitled The Assault on Reason:
I found Al Gore's opening testimony--which I just watched--deeply stirring. Whenever I hear the guy talk, my feeling is always the same: He exudes intelligence.
The Guardian's article (actually, it apparently was in The Observer, which explains why I didn't see it until now) is at:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2190770,00.html
It has since been picked up by CBS (at least):
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/14/world/main3365651.shtml
[Ed Note: Apologies for not finding this sooner, unfairly caught in the spamm trap...]