Gore’s Noble Challenge. Por Patrick J. Michaels.
Gore’s standard rule on live TV has been there will be no live challenge.
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The fact is that Al has ducked, feinted, dived away from, or fluffed each and every opportunity for a reasoned debate with any global warming scientist not of his choice, a choice he no longer enjoys. Heartland Institute, a Chicago think tank, spent over a million dollars filing ads in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and their ilk, begging Al to debate. No dice. In a less public venue, my own Cato Institute sent kind and courteous letters asking him to share our pretty auditorium on Washington’s Massachusetts Avenue, for a civil discussion with our scholars. Again, no dice.
Here’s the rub: if any opposition were so easy to vanquish, Gore would relish the opportunity. Obviously there’s a substantive and cogent argument he can’t kill.
In essence, it is that Gore has massively departed from the scientific mainstream on global warming, even as that community may be itself biased by the funding afforded by emphasizing the negative.
For example, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (of which I am a member, while Gore is not) predicts a mean sea-level rise of about 13 inches by 2100. Gore’s book and movie contain an undated montage showing Florida sliding beneath the waves, something that could only happen with 13 feet or more.
How on earth does one accomplish such a disconnect from scientific reality?
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