Did more than one version of "An Inconvenient Truth" circulate, or is error #1 just totally made up?
From my recollection seeing the movie, and from the transcript below, Gore never claimed that a 20 foot rise was inevitable 'in the near future.' He said that scientists have been surprised at the higher-than-expected rate of melting, and that the potential exists if all the ice melted to have a 20-foot rise.
Other "errors" also seem to be much more definitive statements than what was actually said in the movie.
The movie is basically an enumeration of:
(1) Evidence that global warming is occurring.
(2) Consequences of global warming.
Clever parsing aside, do you really want to argue that he wasn't suggesting that catastrophic ice melt wasn't in (2), but just a random fact thrown in?
It doesn't take any clever parsing to see that if person A says "X is possible" and person B says, "No, you're wrong! It's not 100% certain that X will happen!" then person B is misinterpreting person A, either mistakenly or deliberately.
From my recollection seeing the movie, and from the transcript below, Gore never claimed that a 20 foot rise was inevitable 'in the near future.' He said that scientists have been surprised at the higher-than-expected rate of melting, and that the potential exists if all the ice melted to have a 20-foot rise.
Other "errors" also seem to be much more definitive statements than what was actually said in the movie.
http://forumpolitics.com/blogs/2007/03/17/an-inconvient-trut...