Another Al Gore Global Warming Lie

Newsbusters has the report from ABC News that some video of disappearing ice shelfs in Al Gores schlockumentary "An Inconvient Truth" was not actual footage after all, but computer generated images used in the movie "The Day After Tomorrow" (that movie was so bad I couldn't even watch the whole thing on TiVO). Sam Champion, a global warming alarmist in his own right, broke the news on ABC's 20/20:

SAM CHAMPION (ABC NEWS)

(Voiceover) "The Day After Tomorrow" dramatizes global warming with scenes like this.

ACTOR (MALE)

The whole damn shelf is breaking off.

AL GORE (FORMER UNITED STATES VICE PRESIDENT)

These glaciers are so beautiful.

CLIP FROM "AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH"

SAM CHAMPION (ABC NEWS)

(Voiceover) Al Gore's 2006 documentary, 'An Inconvenient Truth," makes the same point with actual video of ice shelves calving. Which shots have more impact?

AL GORE (FORMER UNITED STATES VICE PRESIDENT)

And if you were flying over it in a helicopter, you'd see it's 700 feet tall. They are so majestic.

SAM CHAMPION (ABC NEWS)

(Voiceover) Wait a minute, that shot looks just like the one in the opening credits of "The Day After Tomorrow."

KAREN GOULEKAS (VISUAL EFFECTS SUPERVISOR)

Yeah, that's, that's our shot. That's a fully computer generated shot. There's nothing real in there.

SAM CHAMPION (ABC NEWS)

(Voiceover) Audiences expect Hollywood to twist fact into fiction. But Gore's documentary does the opposite, using a fake shot to make a real point, that ice shelves are disappearing, and vanishing ice means global warming.

Apparently, ABC tried to get a comment from Gore concerning the matter, but none was forthcoming:

SAM CHAMPION (ABC NEWS)

(Off-camera) And it raises another question for you to consider. Is it wrong for a documentary to use a fabricated Hollywood shot to make a point, even if there's science behind it? Well, we tried to ask Al Gore and the movie studio, but neither responded to our calls.

Why didn't he just use real footage of ice shelfs collapsing as global warming ravages the planet? Because he can't. It's not happening.