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If only the title of Al Gore's iconic global warming documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," was the only misleading thing about it. On Oct. 8, the British High Court, following an appeal by a vexed parent, blocked the government's decision to distribute the film to every British secondary school. The court ruled that the partisan, ideologically charged film is deceptive in at least 11 aspects.

By law, any teacher who wishes to present the documentary in a classroom in Britain must not only identify the specious "truths" to students, but also preface the film with a disclaimer that it is a political work promoting only one side of the debate. Should any instructor fail to do so, he or she would be in breach of the Education Act of 1996 and guilty of political indoctrination.

Read more: Inconvenient propagandist: How Al Gore distorts facts

Environmentalist filmmaker Al Gore is this year�s winner of the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize, which he shares with the U.N.�s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.So how does the Nobel committee get �peace� out of �global warming�? It has to do with the precautionary principle, or what might happen if we fail to take steps to halt climate change. If the worst-case global warming scenarios actually happen they could bring about social upheaval, which could increase the �danger of violent conflicts and wars, within and between states,� the committee said.

So Gore by advancing the global warming agenda is actually helping to promote world peace.

Hey, if it works for the committee, it works for us.

What doesn�t work is the fact the film for which Gore won the prize, �An Inconvenient Truth,� is riven with alarmist exaggerations and inaccuracies. The day before the Nobel was announced, a British High Court justice ruled that the film included significant errors, according to the Times of London.

Read more: Courier Editorials - Gore's Nobel

THERE is a beautiful congruency about Al Gore receiving the Nobel Peace Prize 24 hours after a High Court judge had declared it illegal to screen his 'man-made' climate change propaganda film An Inconvenient Truth in schools, unless accompanied by contradictory information to correct its scientific falsehoods. The judge identified nine scientific errors that would mislead pupils.

It takes more than nine inconvenient untruths, however, to deflect the Nobel Peace Prize committee from its political purpose. For aficionados of irony, last week was a deeply satisfying experience. To see the humbugs of the Nobel committee embracing the charlatan Gore to endorse his falsification of reality in what has become, globally, the flagship politically correct cause was as morally illuminating as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.

Read more: Nobel Prize ignores inconvenient untruths to reward Gore

Once again, the Friends of Coal will sponsor the awards for all high school championship athletic events.  The first round of athletic competition is already in full swing, with golf, cross country, soccer, volleyball and football all moving toward statewide championship events.
As always, we have been encouraged to actively participate in these events through the presentation of awards, medals and trophies.  Anyone who is interested in these events, please call Dan Miller at 342-4153 and we will get you scheduled.

The first event will be golf, scheduled for October 3 at Oglebay Park in Wheeling.  On October 27 will be the Cross Country championship, to be held at Cabell Midland HS.

The annual soccer championships will again be at the YMCA Sports Complex in Beckley, on November 3.  On November 10, the volleyball championship will come to the Charleston Civic Center.

The first half of the sports year will conclude with the Super Six football championships in Wheeling on Nov.30-Dec 1, and the cheerleading championships on December 8 at the Charleston Civic Center.