This interesting bit of political maneuvering just came to light…

“The producers of An Inconvenient Truth have offered to supply American classrooms with 50,000 copies of the movie free of charge. That offer has been rejected by the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), the nation’s leading science education teachers group, citing a risk to funding from key financial supporters.

One of those supporters is Exxon-Mobil.

The news was buried deep in the Washington Post website and reported by Laurie David, a producer of the film and founder of StopGlobalWarming.org”

We had a showing of the movie under discussion at the Cathedral yesterday. Many more people attended that I had expected, and there was lively discussion that followed. I think I’m inspired enough by watching it that I’m going to have to make a whole new category for this blog called “climate change” so that people will be able to find information easily…

Read the rest of the story above here: The Conscious Earth: An Inconvenient Truth Squeezed from Classrooms