The LA Times reports here that two members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts are calling on the Academy to take back Gore’s Oscar for “An Inconvenient Truth” because the Climategate emails show scientific fraud.
No, it wouldn’t do anything for the environment. But two Hollywood conservatives (yes, there
are some) have called on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences to rescind the prestigious, profitable gold Oscar statuette
that it gave ex-Vice President Al Gore two years ago for the environmental movie “An Inconvenient Truth.”Roger L. Simon and Lionel Chetwynd,
both Academy members, are among a small, meandering pack of known
political conservatives still believed to be on the loose in the
liberal bastion of movie-making.In 2007, the Academy sanctified Gore’s cinematic message of global warming with its famous statue, enriched his earnings by $100,000 per 85-minute appearance
and helped elevate the Tennessean’s profile to win the Nobel Peace
Prize despite losing the election battle of 2000 to a Texan and living
in a large house with lots of energy-driven appliances.Chetwynd and Simon were prompted to make their hopeless demand this week by the …
… leak two weeks ago of a blizzard of British academic e-mails
purporting to show that scientists at the University of East Anglia
Climatic Research Unit systematically falsified data to document the
appearance of global warming in recent years.
