1. An Inconvenient Truth The Judge held that the DFES understandably formed the view that AIT is an outstanding film, and that schools should be enabled to show it to pupils. (Paragraph 6 in the judgement)
The Judge went on to make the following findings:
1 1. An Inconvenient Truth is substantially founded upon scientific research and fact, albeit that the science was used, in the hands of a talented politician and communicator, to make a political statement and to support a political programme. (Paragraph 17 (i))
2. The four main scientific points made in An Inconvenient Truth are:
a. global average temperatures have been rising significantly over the past half century and are likely to continue to rise (climate change); b. climate change is mainly attributable to man-made emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide (greenhouse gases); c. climate change will, if unchecked, have significant adverse effects on the world and its populations; and d. there are measures which individuals and governments can take which will help to reduce climate change or mitigate its effects.
3. All of the points at 2) above are supported by a vast quantity of research published in peer-reviewed journals worldwide and by the great majority of the world's climate scientists. (Paragraph 17)
4. Nothing in the 1996 Act (or elsewhere) obliges teachers to adopt a position of studied neutrality between, on the one hand, scientific views which reflect the great majority of world scientific opinion and, on the other, a minority view held by a few dissentient scientists. (Paragraphs 18 and 19)
5. The judge accepted the witness evidence of the DFES that Al Gore's presentation of the causes and likely effects of climate change in the film was broadly accurate
