A national campaign was launched today to get public schools that have shown Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" to give equal time to the opposing view of global warming.

The Independent Women's Forum launched its Balanced Education for Everyone campaign today. It hopes to have the 2009 documentary "Not Evil, Just Wrong" shown in classrooms around the country. "Not Evil, Just Wrong" claims to expose erroneous claims about global warming.

The Independent Women's Forum is a nonprofit, founded in 1992, that supports limited government and free markets.

Ryan Alexander, the campaign manager for Balanced Education for Everyone, said many schools around the country are offering the Al Gore movie as an education on the global climate.

"It (An Inconvenient Truth) is a lecture with a power point. It has almost an academic authoritative feel to it which makes it more egregious," Alexander said. "We are looking to restore balance within the school systems on global warming. ... There is just an unfortunate liberal bias within the school itself."

A judge in England ruled in 2007 than "An Inconvenient Truth" had nine significant errors in it and was politically partisan and not an impartial analysis of the science of climate change, according to the London Times. The judge called it "a political film" when ruling on whether or not it could be shown to children in secondary schools in England. The judge stated that it could be shown — but on the condition that teachers balance the film's "one-sided" views.

The Jackson Public Schools in Michigan has shown "An Inconvenient Truth" to its students. A'Lynne Robinson, the special assistant to the superintendent for community relations at JPS, said that they have received no complaints from parents regarding the Gore film.

She said a curriculum committee reviewed it and found that it had enough merit to be shown to students — and that the same process would be used to determine if "Not Evil, Just Wrong" could be shown as well.

Diane Katz, the director of Risk, Environment and Energy Policy at the Fraser Institute, said neither movies should be shown in schools.

"I don't think political propaganda belongs in schools, especially the younger grades," Katz said. "Unfortunately, so much of what passes for environmental education has very little to do about facts about the environment and has to do with the government control of our property and every other aspect of our lives. ... I don't think any of that stuff should be school material. No matter what side the filmmakers are coming from, I don't think any of that stuff belongs in the classroom."

Katz criticized school systems that have shown the Gore film.

"It says that whatever curriculum oversight there is, it is pretty poor," Katz said. "Obviously, it is predisposed to this green dogma."

In mid-March, Students for a Free Economy held a forum at Central Michigan University with three panelists who discussed their doubts about the research that is being used to support the climate change concerns of the U.S. government and the governments of many other industrialized nations. SFE is a campus outreach project from the Mackinac Center for Public Policy.

Hugh McDiarmid Jr., a spokesman for the Michigan Environmental Council in Ann Arbor, created a flier that was placed on the seats for members of the audience. In reference to SFE, the flier read: "Anti-government activists convene science bashing forums at OU, CMU."

A similar SFE event was held earlier that day at Oakland University.

Among the claims in McDiarmid's flier was: "All major United States scientific organizations concur with the most recent finding of the International (sic) Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)."

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2007 report stated - among many things - that global warming gases had increased as a result of human activity since 1750.

McDiarmid's flier listed 11 U.S. scientific organizations that he claimed backed the panel, including the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Academy of Sciences.

Will Happer said McDiarmid's claim in the flier was "a propaganda statement."

Happer is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics at Princeton University and a fellow at the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Academy of Sciences.

In 2009, Happer told a U.S. Senate Committee that man-made global warming fears were mistaken, according to the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.

He says he was fired in 1993 from his role as director of the research budget for the Department of Energy by then Vice President Al Gore. Happer said he was let go for questioning the global warming agenda in private meetings.

Happer said global warming advocates have infiltrated the ranks of the leadership of many scientific organizations and have posted positions without consulting with the membership or even doing their own study.