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That's the same Exxon Mobil that for more than a decade has done everything possible to muddle public understanding of global warming and stifle any serious effort to solve it. But there was one more curious argument in the e-mail: Accepting the DVDs, they wrote, would place 'unnecessary risk upon the capital campaign, especially certain targeted supporters.' One of those supporters, it turns out, is the Exxon Mobil Corp. Still, maybe the NSTA just being extra cautious.

#AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH DVD MOVIE#

As for classroom benefits, the movie has been enthusiastically endorsed by leading climate scientists worldwide, and is required viewing for all students in Norway and Sweden. Gore, however, is not running for office, and the film's theatrical run is long since over. In their e-mail rejection, they expressed concern that other 'special interests' might ask to distribute materials, too they said they didn't want to offer 'political' endorsement of the film and they saw 'little, if any, benefit to NSTA or its members' in accepting the free DVDs. The teachers had a different idea: Thanks but no thanks, they said.

So the company that made the documentary decided to offer 50,000 free DVDs to the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) for educators to use in their classrooms. The producers of former vice president Al Gore's film about global warming, myself included, certainly agreed.

'At hundreds of screenings this year of 'An Inconvenient Truth,' the first thing many viewers said after the lights came up was that every student in every school in the United States needed to see this movie.

This is what she said about it from an earier Op Ed. Laurie David, one of the film's producers was on Now last night atlking about why the National Science Teachers organiazarion turned down 50,000 free copies of the film to science teachers to use any wat they liked.Д®xxon wouldn't like it? Why are corporations deciding what our kids see?

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