As flawed as science in the courtroom can become, keeping science out of courts is even worse. An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It is a 2006 book by Al Gore released in conjunction with the film. Listen to An Inconvenient Truth The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It by Vice Pres. But who decides what's accurate? A judge? A jury? And how? It's a gray and messy area, and there aren't any grand truths to clean it all up.

But the judge wasn't banning 'An Inconvenient Truth' - just insisting that scientific inaccuracies be corrected. The obvious response to this analogy is, of course, that there's no scientific basis for ID or creationism, while there's plenty of evidence for manmade climate change. On the other hand, when the UK government recently told teachers that they shouldn't teach intelligent design and creationism as science, I wasn't complaining. In An Inconvenient Truth Gore writes about the urgent need to solve the problems of climate change, presenting comprehensive facts and information on all aspects of global warming in a direct, thoughtful and compelling way,using explanatory diagrams and dramatic photos to clarify and highlight key issues. From my own perspective, there's something disturbing about a court acting as a movie critic, then turning its recommendations into legal requirements. Not being an expert on UK law or politics, I don't know how this fits with the country's free speech laws and traditions. An inconvenient truth Organic food’s impact on climate change in the spotlight following critical report - Organically farmed food has a bigger climate impact than conventionally farmed food due to the greater areas of land required, according to a new study.

A British judge has ruled that Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth can't be shown in schools unless accompanied by materials explaining the film's inaccuracies.

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