Pirate's Cove

Probably not. He doesn't live the life he tells everyone else to live, so why would he want to put his junk science on trial?

(CNSNews.com) – A British skeptic of global warming "alarmism" on Tuesday challenged climate change activist and former Vice President Al Gore to a debate on the issue.

"Global warming is not a crisis," Viscount Christopher Monckton of Brenchley declared in an ad published in the Washington Post Tuesday. The ad, also scheduled to run in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, directs readers to a website in which Monckton challenges Gore to a debate in Oxford, England at a date of the American's choosing.

Monckton was once an advisor to former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. He points out that like Gore, he is not a scientist or economist, although he has written several essays challenging the idea that global warming is a crisis.

"Al Gore has become the world's most recognized advocate of the theory that human greenhouse gas emissions are altering the world's climate and could cause catastrophic damage if not arrested and reduced," Heartland Institute President Joseph Bast said in a statement. "But Al Gore refuses to debate those who say global warming is not a crisis."

Bast criticized Gore for "refus[ing] to debate Lord Monckton, just as he refuses to debate a growing list of prominent scientists, economists, novelists, and policy experts" who question catastrophic predictions about the effects of global warming.

Well, you know, the debate is over, according to the Goracle and other global warming as caused by Man zealots. Why? Because they do not want to admit that little pieces of science, along with political documents, speachifying, and junk science do not back up their stances. Real science destroys them so much that the demand! that a gazillion sources be cited, which are then refuted as being done by the coal or oil lobbies, with some "neocon!" thrown in for good measure.

In a recent statement, Monckton declared, "A careful study of the substantial corpus of peer-reviewed science reveals that Mr. Gore's film, An Inconvenient Truth, is a foofaraw [a fuss over a matter of little importance] of pseudo-science, exaggerations, and errors, now being peddled to innocent schoolchildren worldwide."

The British peer wants to debate Gore in the historic library of the Oxford Museum of Natural History, the venue of a famous 1860 debate on evolution between Darwinist T. H. Huxley and Bishop Samuel Wilberforce.

A spokeswoman for Gore did not respond Wednesday to requests for comment on the debate challenge.

And the Goracle will never answer. He will not debate. Like any good liberal, his is good at speachifying and telling others what to do, but poor at actually following through on action, ie, living the life.

Meanwhile, Republicans on the Hill want an investigation into mismanagement at the UN agency that monitor climate change for misappropriation of funds, to the tune of $3 million. I'm shocked. Money issues in the U.N.? Can't be.

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