Posted on 03/20/2007 12:23:40 PM PDT by sionnsar
From: ... On Behalf Of Toby Nixon
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 11:50 AM
To: Friends of Toby Nixon
Subject: [Friends] Al Gore Challenged to Climate Debate
I sure hope that if Al Gore accepts this invitation, it is broadcast or webcast. If not, we’ll have to organize a field trip.
-- Toby
Monday, March 19, 2007 2:42 p.m. EDT
Al Gore Challenged to Climate Debate
Al Gore has been challenged to an internationally televised debate on "climate change" by Lord Christopher Monckton, a policy adviser to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher during her leadership of the United Kingdom.
In a formal press release from the Center for Science and Public Policy, Lord Monckton has thrown down the gauntlet to challenge Gore to what he terms "the Second Great Debate," an internationally televised, head-to-head, nation-unto-nation confrontation on the question, "That our effect on climate is not dangerous."
Monckton said, "A careful study of the substantial corpus of peer-reviewed science reveals that Mr. Gore's film, "An Inconvenient Truth," is a foofaraw of pseudo-science, exaggerations, and errors, now being peddled to innocent schoolchildren worldwide."
Monckton and Gore have once before clashed head-to-head on the science, politics, and religion of global warming in pages of the London Sunday Telegraph last November.
As reported in November 2006, Monckton challenged a U.N. report on climate change as "hysteria" over manmade global warming that distorts the truth.
A U.N. report in 1996 "showed a 1,000-year graph demonstrating that temperature in the Middle Ages was warmer than today," Monckton writes in the Sunday Telegraph.
"But the 2001 report contained a new graph showing no medieval warm period. It wrongly concluded that the 20th century was the warmest for 1,000 years . . .
"Scores of scientific papers show that the medieval warm period was real, global and up to [5 degrees Fahrenheit] warmer than now.
"Then, there were no glaciers in the tropical Andes; today they're there. There were Viking farms in Greenland; now they're under permafrost. There was little ice at the North Pole – a Chinese naval squadron sailed right around the Arctic in 1421 and found none."
Monckton also writes that Antarctica has cooled and gained ice-mass in the past 30 years, and the oceans have cooled sharply in the past two years.
In his most recent challenge to Gore, Monckton calls on the former vice president to "step up to the plate and defend his advocacy of policies that could do grave harm to the welfare of the world's poor.
"If Mr. Gore really believes global warming is the defining issue of our time, the greatest threat human civilization has ever faced, then he should welcome the opportunity to raise the profile of the issue before a worldwide audience of billions by defining and defending his claims against a serious, science-based challenge."
http://ff.org/centers/csspp/docs/20070316_monckton_release.html
Al Gore Challenged to International TV Debate on Global Warming
March 16, 2007
PERTH, SCOTLAND - In a formal invitation sent to former Vice-President Al Gore’s Tennessee address and released to the public, Lord Monckton has thrown down the gauntlet to challenge Gore to what he terms “the Second Great Debate,” an internationally televised, head-to-head, nation-unto-nation confrontation on the question, “That our effect on climate is not dangerous.” (http://ff.org/centers/csspp/docs/20070316_monckton.html)
Monckton a former policy adviser to Margaret Thatcher during her years as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom said, “A careful study of the substantial corpus of peer-reviewed science reveals that Mr. Gore’s film, An Inconvenient Truth, is a foofaraw of pseudo-science, exaggerations, and errors, now being peddled to innocent schoolchildren worldwide.”
Monckton and Gore have once before clashed head to head on the science, politics, and religion of global warming in the usually-decorous pages of the London Sunday Telegraph last November.
Monckton calls on the former Vice President to “step up to the plate and defend his advocacy of policies that could do grave harm to the welfare of the world’s poor. If Mr. Gore really believes global warming is the defining issue of our time, the greatest threat human civilization has ever faced, then he should welcome the opportunity to raise the profile of the issue before a worldwide audience of billions by defining and defending his claims against a serious, science-based challenge”.
The arena of the glittering “Second Great Debate” will be the elegant, Victorian-Gothic Library of the Oxford Museum of Natural History, which was the setting for the “Great Debate” between the natural scientist T. H. Huxley and Bishop “Soapy Sam” Wilberforce on the theory of evolution, following the publication of Darwin’s Origin of Species. Lord Monckton says he chose this historic venue “not only because the magnificent, Gothic architecture will be a visually-stunning setting for the debate but also because I hope that in this lofty atmosphere the caution and scepticism of true science will once again prevail, this time over the shibboleths and nostrums of the false, new religion of climate alarmism.”
Lord Monckton’s resounding challenge to Al Gore reads as follows –
“The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley presents his compliments to Vice-President Albert Gore and by these presents challenges the said former Vice-President to a head-to-head, internationally-televised debate upon the question “That our effect on climate is not dangerous”, to be held in the Library of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History at a date of the Vice-President’s choosing.
“Forasmuch as it is His Lordship who now flings down the gauntlet to the Vice-President, it shall be the Vice-President’s prerogative and right to choose his weapons by specifying the form of the Great Debate. May the Truth win! Magna est veritas, et praevalet. God Bless America! God Save the Queen!”
Contact: Audrey Mullen
www.advocacyink.com 703-548-1160
http://ff.org/centers/csspp/docs/20070316_monckton.html
Climate Change Challenge
The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley presents his compliments to Vice-President Albert Gore and by these presents challenges the said former Vice-President to a head-to-head, internationally-televised debate upon the question “That our effect on climate is not dangerous”, to be held in the Library of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History at a date of the Vice-President’s choosing.
Forasmuch as it is His Lordship who now flings down the gauntlet to the Vice-President, it shall be the Vice-President’s prerogative and right to choose his weapons by specifying the form of the Great Debate. May the Truth win! Magna est veritas, et praevalet.
Given at Carie, Rannoch, in the County of Perth, in the Kingdom of Scotland, this 14th Day of March in the Year of our Lord Two Thousand And Seven.
God Bless America ! God Save The Queen !
The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
Carie, Rannoch, PH17 2QJ, Scotland
011 44 1882 632341
It would be more entertaining had Lord Monckton challenged him not to debate, but to a duel. OK, "green" duel, with cudgels.
LOL! Gore is a bully and the core of bullying is cowardice.
He'll NEVER show.
"Schweeet!"
We'll see if Gore accepts.
Indeed!
Intellectually, Algore is way out of this guy's league. Monckton will mop the floor with him. Gore's sputtering will be something to behold.
Monckton attended Harrow School, Churchill College, Cambridge and University College, Cardiff. He served as Margaret Thatcher's policy advisor.
In 1999, he created the eternity puzzle, a geometric puzzle which involved tiling a dodecagon with 209 irregularly shaped polygons called polydrafters. A £1m prize was won after 18 months. By that time, 500,000 puzzles had been sold. A second puzzle, Eternity II, is to be launched in July 2007, with a prize of $2 million. Figure that out, Al.
Like a soldier sent to stand watch without a magazine for his rifle, Algore will enter this test of intelligence unarmed. AGAIN!!
Al Gore is the greatest debater of all time! So the media told us in 2000.
He will not show up...because he won't be paid...and he won't like all liberals know what to do with himself when he is exposed for being WRONG and a LIAR.
Gore: Well Lord...what aboot Dingell/Norwood?
If I read the challenge correctly, it invites Gore to choose the manner of the debate. Gore has or will do so; he will choose to conduct the debate through "coverage" consisting of propaganda from the international socialist MSM and Entertainment conglomerates. In other words, what he's doing now. It is a one-sided "debate" where we will hear Gore's lies and nothing from Monckton.
Thus, Gore's acceptance.
Good point.
You mean that ALGORE is a "master-debater?" You gotta hand it to him LOL.
Lose-Lose for Gore, Win-Win for the U.S.
If he doesn't show he's seen as an intellectual coward and a hypocrite.
If he shows up he's made a fool trying to defend junk science.
Don't hold your breath waiting, he won't- "everybody" knows global warming is fact.
Click on POGW graphic for full GW rundown
Ping me if you find one I've missed.
*snort* LOVE that word!
Actually, it's neither-neither because the unwashed masses will never even hear about the challenge. Don't hold your breath waiting for the MSM to report it.
Yeah, he really knows what he is doing, with the barrel pointed at his head with the weapon on SEMI.
LOL...
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