On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 08:52:16 +0100, David Hansen
wrote:

Even those who believe the
science is all junk should be grown up enough to accept that they
have both raised knowledge of the issue.

In Gores case he may have raised awareness but certainly not
knowledge. Science, unlike politics, is all about learning.
Conclusions and suppositions are often superseded by new findings.
This is exactly why this glossy bit of polemic has no place in
schools other than in politics lessons. Children should be taught to
question based on facts, not to accept spoon feed misinformation from
celebrities. They should learn that science is about continually
finding things out and in doing so it will always create new areas of
uncertainty as well as resolving problems.

Real learning is of course an anathema to a government intent on
promoting superstition and installing increasing numbers of "faith"
schools so it isn't surprising that their ministers probably believe
Gores green propaganda is science, but it isn't and shouldn't go
unchallenged when presented as being so.

--
Peter Parry.
http://www.wpp.ltd.uk/