Okay, kids, today we are going to talk about the definition of oxymoron. No, that is not a moron dependent upon extra oxygen. An oxymoron, according to Yahoo Education, is, and I quote: "A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in a deafening silence and a mournful optimist."
So, it seems that Honest Politician is an oxymoron, or so it seems. Well, maybe there are a few honest ones out there, but they aren't running for any office. And this difficulty with honesty does not inhabit just one party. Both of the major parties, anyway, seems to be plagued with dishonesty.
Dishonesty seems to be permeating many parts of our society as well. All one must do is open the papers and see articles about dishonest cops, dishonest lawyers, dishonest preachers, and the list goes on and on and on.
It's a shame that dishonesty is such a problem, to be honest.
But where dishonesty seems to be used the most, of late, is when it comes to our environment.
Yes, that's right, I am referring to Global Warming and our good buddy, Al Gore. It seems that Mr. Gore has a lot of people believing that the sky is falling. At least that is what Holly Fretwell, author of "The Sky's Not Falling! Why It's OK to Chill about Global Warming," and this Friday's guest on Political Pistachio Radio, says. I suppose Al Gore is a modern day Chicken Little.
Anyway, a fellow blogger in Australia, Sonnabend, brought an article to my attention by e-mail regarding the dishonest Global Warming politician, also known as Al Gore, and his movie, An Inconvenient Truth. It seems that the documentary has some untruths in it.
What? A dishonest politician? Naw, tell me it isn't so!
Yes, my dear friends, even Al Gore is a straight out liar. Or at least, that's what a judge in Britain says (and I've been saying for a very long time).
In fact, according to the Herald Sun in Australia, a British Judge found 11 untruths in Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" and the judge ruled that before teachers could show the film, they must warn the children of the lies.
Here is a list of those 11 untruths.
1. The film claims that melting snows on Mount Kilimanjaro evidence global warming. The Government’s expert was forced to concede that this is not correct.
2. The film suggests that evidence from ice cores proves that rising CO2 causes temperature increases over 650,000 years. The Court found that the film was misleading: over that period the rises in CO2 lagged behind the temperature rises by 800-2000 years.
3. The film uses emotive images of Hurricane Katrina and suggests that this has been caused by global warming. The Government’s expert had to accept that it was “not possible” to attribute one-off events to global warming.
4. The film shows the drying up of Lake Chad and claims that this was caused by global warming. The Government’s expert had to accept that this was not the case.
5. The film claims that a study showed that polar bears had drowned due to disappearing arctic ice. It turned out that Mr Gore had misread the study: in fact four polar bears drowned and this was because of a particularly violent storm.
6. The film threatens that global warming could stop the Gulf Stream throwing Europe into an ice age: the Claimant’s evidence was that this was a scientific impossibility.
7. The film blames global warming for species losses including coral reef bleaching. The Government could not find any evidence to support this claim.
8. The film suggests that the Greenland ice covering could melt causing sea levels to rise dangerously. The evidence is that Greenland will not melt for millennia.
9. The film suggests that the Antarctic ice covering is melting, the evidence was that it is in fact increasing.
10. The film suggests that sea levels could rise by 7m causing the displacement of millions of people. In fact the evidence is that sea levels are expected to rise by about 40cm over the next hundred years and that there is no such threat of massive migration.
11. The film claims that rising sea levels has caused the evacuation of certain Pacific islands to New Zealand. The Government are unable to substantiate this and the Court observed that this appears to be a false claim.
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