More on "scientific truth".

Some nice summing up of the recent case against how Al Gore's 'an inconvenient truth' should be used in schools from Catherine Brahic, online environmental reporter for the New Scientist:

For my part, I would say that strictly speaking, Gore oversimplified certain points, made a few factual errors and, at times, chose the wrong poster child (Mount Kilimanjaro should have been replaced by any number of Alaskan or Andean glaciers, for instance). It's unfortunate, but it remains the most comprehensive popular documentary on climate change science I have seen.

Also interesting to see the extensive and diverse discussion in the comments that follow it.