I cannot believe I am seeing the forced brain washing of students, the kind that would make the Nazi propaganda wizard Joseph Goebbels smile in his grave.

To receive a degree from Roger Williams University in Rhode Island, students are being forced to watch “An Inconvenient Truth,” the documentary on global warming produced by former Vice President Al Gore.

The science class requirement has prompted one conservative student to declare that “we should stop calling these schools ‘bastions of knowledge’ since they’re really bastions of leftist thought.”

Where is the freedom of thought and speech in America when students are forced to watch Al Gore’s Science Fiction movie that even scientists on the Human-Global-Warming side panned as all hype? (for a good debunking see here)

This is unacceptable. When will universities begin requiring the reading (and therefore acceptance) of Karl Marx and socialism? Just because some low level professor is hypnotized by the fanatasies peddled by the Kyoto-ites doesn’t mean forced propaganda is called for. People need to be able to make their own choices – not be forced to sit through Al Gore’s dementia. The school is in denial that there is any scientific doubt to man’s impact on global warming. Sadly a science degree from this school is not of very high quality.
Update: Latest science puts huge damper on Global Warming fanatics:

During the so-called Medieval Warm Period between about 900 and 1300 A.D., for example, the Vikings raised livestock on Greenland and sailed to North America. New cities were built all across Europe, and the continent’s population grew from 30 million to 80 million.

The consequences of the colder temperatures that plunged civilization into the so-called Little Ice Age for several centuries after 1300 were devastating. Summers were rainy, winters cold, and in many places temperatures were too low for grain crops to mature. Famines and epidemics raged, and average life expectancy dropped by 10 years. In Germany, thousands of villages were abandoned and entire stretches of land depopulated.

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The truth is probably somewhere between these two extremes. Climate change will undoubtedly have losers — but it will also have winners. There will be a reshuffling of climate zones on earth. And there is something else that we can already say with certainty: The end of the world isn’t coming any time soon.

Largely unnoticed by the public, climate researchers are currently embroiled in their own struggle over who owns the truth. While some have always seen themselves as environmental activists aiming to shake humanity out of its complacency, others argue for a calmer and more rational approach to the unavoidable.

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or one thing, the more paleontologists and geologists study the history of the earth’s climate, the more clearly do they recognize just how much temperatures have fluctuated in both directions in the past. Even major fluctuations appear to be completely natural phenomena.

Additionally, some environmentalists doubt that the large-scale extinction of animals and plants some have predicted will in fact come about. “A warmer climate helps promote species diversity,” says Munich zoologist Josef Reichholf.

Also, more detailed simulations have allowed climate researchers to paint a considerably less dire picture than in the past — gone is the talk of giant storms, the melting of the Antarctic ice shield and flooding of major cities.

The inconvenient truth is Al Gore is a blithering idiot. It is amazing the country survived with him as number two for 8 years.