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Mary Richards reporting It was an "inconvenient" classroom instruction, and the father of a middle school student doesn't think Al Gore's movie is appropriate. He wanted his child to hear both sides of the argument.
Mark Colley takes issue with some statements in Gore's film "An Inconvenient Truth." "Scientific consensus is that we are causing global warming," Gore says in the film.
But Colley says it's not scientific consensus. Some scientists say climate change is natural, not all man-made.
Colley says his daughter's teacher at Midvale middle school should have shown a rebuttal to "An Inconvenient Truth." He says he's taken that up at home, but the other students may have walked away with only Gore's viewpoint.
Meanwhile, some Utah science teachers say teaching climate change can be a challenge but they do try to balance it.
Adrian Bancroft, a Clayton Middle School teacher, says when he shows "An Inconvenient Truth" to his students he also shows another film with an opposite point of view. "I do sent home permission slips so that parents are aware that that movie is being shown. But again, I've had no negative comments from parents at all," he said.
Bancroft says he has his students discuss how different scientists can take different things from the same set of data.
