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Gore is the author of ''[[Assault on Reason]]''. [[Militant]] [[leftist]] [[activist]] [[Ted Kazinski]] is said to be the inspiration of Gore's [[environmental]] manifesto, ''[[Earth in the Balance]]''.<ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_n1_v13/ai_19007864 Conservatives claim Gore too weird for presidency - Vice-Pres. Al Gore - includes related article on Gore's book 'Earth in the Balance'], by John Elvin, Insight on the News, Jan 6, 1997.</ref>
Gore is the author of ''[[Assault on Reason]]''. [[Militant]] [[leftist]] [[activist]] [[Ted Kazinski]] is said to be the inspiration of Gore's [[environmental]] manifesto, ''[[Earth in the Balance]]''.<ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_n1_v13/ai_19007864 Conservatives claim Gore too weird for presidency - Vice-Pres. Al Gore - includes related article on Gore's book 'Earth in the Balance'], by John Elvin, Insight on the News, Jan 6, 1997.</ref>
He also starred in the 2006 documentary about [[global warming]] entitled, ''[[An Inconvenient Truth]],'' which won an [[Oscar]] despite its blatant scientific inaccuracies. In 2007, British Court warned schools which show the film to school children that:
He also starred in the 2006 documentary about [[global warming]] entitled, ''[[An Inconvenient Truth]],'' which won an [[Oscar]] despite its blatant scientific inaccuracies. In 2007, conservatives in Great Britain petitioned the British High Court to warn schools showing the film to school children that:
#The Film is a political work and promotes only one side of the argument.
#The Film is a political work and promotes only one side of the argument.
#If teachers present the Film without making this plain they may be in breach of ... the Education Act 1996 and guilty of political [[indoctrination]].
#If teachers present the Film without making this plain they may be in breach of ... the Education Act 1996 and guilty of political [[indoctrination]].
#Eleven inaccuracies have to be specifically drawn to the attention of school children. [http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2007/10/09/court-identifies-eleven-inaccuracies-al-gore-s-inconvenient-truth]
#Eleven inaccuracies have to be specifically drawn to the attention of school children. [http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2007/10/09/court-identifies-eleven-inaccuracies-al-gore-s-inconvenient-truth]
However, on October 10, 2007, the British High Court unilaterally rejected that petition. [http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2007/2288.html][http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2007/10/an_error_is_not_the_same_thing.php]
In 2007, his efforts regarding global warming won a [[Nobel Peace Prize]] shared with the [[IPCC]].<ref>http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2007/</ref>
In 2007, his efforts regarding global warming won a [[Nobel Peace Prize]] shared with the [[IPCC]].<ref>http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2007/</ref>