Quick Fact: Hannity falsely claimed Gore was wrong to say British judge ruling on An Inconvenient Truth “favored his point of view”

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Written by Matt Gertz

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In an interview with British filmmaker and climate change skeptic Phelim McAleer, Sean Hannity falsely claimed that Al Gore's statement that a 2007 ruling by a British judge about Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth, in Hannity's words, “favored his point of view” was “absolutely false.”

From the November 20 edition of Fox News' Hannity:

HANNITY: Well, [Gore's] claiming that this court decision actually, you know, favored his point of view, that is absolutely false.

MCALEER: That is false.

HANNITY: Explain.

MCALEER: Well, the court case, it was a lengthy hearing, maybe a month of hearings, there was nine aspects of An Inconvenient Truth they looked at and they found nine significant errors or exaggerations.

Fact: British judge concluded film is “substantially founded upon scientific research and fact”

In his October 10, 2007, ruling, High Court Judge Michael Burton stated that while he had identified nine “errors and omissions” in the film, it is “substantially founded upon scientific research and fact.” The judge also said he had “no doubt” that the defendant's expert was “right when he says that: 'Al Gore's presentation of the causes and likely effects of climate change in the film was broadly accurate.' ”