Skeptics score a win against alarmists

National Post ^ | December 3, 2009 | Terence Corcoran, Financial Post

[Still Thinking]

On Tuesday night about 1,100 people participated in a sold-out global warming debate that, in the end, turned downtown Toronto's new concert hall at the Royal Conservatory of Music into a microcosm of a larger tranformation that is sweeping the world. The debate pitted two well known global warming activists of international repute against two well-known skeptics. The skeptics won, shifting the audience's support away from the drastic global warming action demanded by activists and toward the moderate reponse of the skeptics, a move that is rapidly becoming a trend everywhere. If global warming is a problem -- and many have growing doubts about that -- it is not a crisis that warrants draconian policy intervention in Copenhagen or anywhere else.

[Still Thinking]

Good article, though long. We have to excerpt NationalPost.com unfortunately.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[seawolf101]

It’s obvious that the alarmists are only out to line their pockets out of the chaos that they have created.

[BobbyT]

Your link leads to page 3. Here’s the article from the start:

http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=dada2262-8f4e-4cc5-ac28-9c2610a0cd47&p=1

[samsmom]

“Skeptic” has replaced “denier.” I like it.

Would much rather be a cool, calm and collected skeptic with the facts than an overheated “alarmist” with so-called scientific consensus.

[Still Thinking]

Oops, sorry about that.

[Still Thinking]

I liked the choice of words too, but the author obviously isn’t suffering from rectal/cranial inversion, and he probably composed the title. I’m sure you’ll continue to see the less honest, more agenda-driven terms in the whoring-for-free state run media.

[caveat emptor]

Two sensible folk vs. two moonbats - Elizabeth May (leader of the Green Party of Canada - no MPs, no prospects. She recently moved from Nova Scotia to a deep green riding in B.C. in hope of winning a seat in the next election, after not being able to win a seat in her home province) and George Monbiot.

At the Munk Debate in Toronto Tuesday night, the email scandal was barely mentioned and so had little direct impact on the results. Before the debate, the 1,100 people in the audience cast ballots, with 61% supporting the resolution that "climate change is mankind's defining crisis and demands a commensurate response." At the end of the debate, support had fallen to 53%.

Had the email exchange among leading scientists been explored, the outcome might have been even more significant decline in support for extreme climate action. Support might have collapsed completely had there been a way to have a fact checker interrupt the debate to review the various clashes over science and the statistics.

[samsmom]

You’re right. Let’s hope it starts to catch on with or without the mainstream media.

The Goreworshippers loved throwing “denier” at us. I hope we get mileage out of “alarmist.”

[Britt0n]

Please God, that we wake up and stop this redistribution scam dead in it’s tracks.

[Ditto]

It’s obvious that the alarmists are only out to line their pockets...

Or simple keep their jobs. As Eisenhower warned in 1960, Government funding of science is likely to produce bad science produced only in the interest of growing government.

It took 50 years, but we are there.