Calif. Activist: Gore's 'Global Warming' Film Taking Students, Others on a Ride
by Jim Brown
May 24, 2006
(AgapePress) - - A California pro-family group is criticizing a Los Angeles-area high school for busing students to watch former Vice President Al Gore's new movie on the theory of global warming.According to the Drudge Report, 1,500 Beverly Hills high school students were to board 30 school buses this morning and be transported across town to watch the documentary "An Inconvenient Truth," which follows Al Gore as he tries to spread his message about the theory of global warming. The Drudge Report quotes Beverly Hills High School science teacher Sarah Utley, who says the free field trip "has been funded by a very generous alum."
The film follows Gore as he traveled around the country, speaking of an impending global climate crisis. It "offers a passionate and inspirational look at one man's fervent crusade to halt global warming's deadly progress in its tracks by exposing the myths and misconceptions that surround it," says the ClimateCrisis.net website, adding that "[global warming] is the biggest moral challenge facing our global civilization."
Randy Thomasson with the Sacramento-based Campaign for Children and Families believes that instead of carting students to view Gore's one-sided take on the issue, schools should be taking a balanced approach to global warming theory.
"High school students deserve a truthful measurement of science, not blatant propaganda," says Thomasson. "These children would be better served by having an expert for the global warming theory and then an expert against the global warming theory come to class or even come to the school and debate."
The family activist says he finds it ironic the school is using 30 gas-guzzling buses to transport the students across town to the theater. "This is a thing that should be debated on facts and real science, rather than [on] feelings and mere emotions," he asserts. "As it is, these children are getting just one side of the story -- and they're basically putting out a lot of gas fumes traveling across town to do it."
To counter Gore's film, the Competitive Enterprise Institute has been airing two 60-second television ads defending carbon dioxide as a beneficial natural resource rather than a dangerous pollutant, as it is portrayed in the documentary.
Jim Brown, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.
