$100,000 Offered to Prove Global Warming: Can You Save Al Gore?

News Busters ^ | August 7, 2007 | Noel Sheppard

[IrishMike]

As soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore continues to duck every person on the planet willing to debate him about his unproven anthropogenic global warming theories, one well-known skeptic has put his money where his mouth is.

On Monday evening, the website JunkScience.com, owned and managed by Steven Milloy, announced The Ultimate Global Warming Challenge.

As laid out in this video, entrants are asked the following in order to receive $100,000 while, at the same time, saving Al Gore from looking like one of the biggest charlatans to ever walk the face of the planet:

$100,000 will be awarded to the first person to prove, in a scientific manner, that humans are causing harmful global warming. The winning entry will specifically reject both of the following two hypotheses: UGWC Hypothesis 1

Manmade emissions of greenhouse gases do not discernibly, significantly and predictably cause increases in global surface and tropospheric temperatures along with associated stratospheric cooling.

UGWC Hypothesis 2 The benefits equal or exceed the costs of any increases in global temperature caused by manmade greenhouse gas emissions between the present time and the year 2100, when all global social, economic and environmental effects are considered.

For full details and rules, please visit the contest's website.

Let the games begin.

[TrailofTears]

Can’t keep an idiot from looking like one.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

It’s hot today. Can I have the money?

[P-40]

$100,000 will be awarded to the first person to prove, in a scientific manner, that humans are causing harmful global warming.

If the proof is to be both 100% certainty and based on science....then no one will ever claim the prize.

[listenhillary]

Cool! Can’t wait!

[Maceman]

If I had the money, I would offer $1 million to anyone who could show a peer-reviewed computer model that correctly predicts the climate of the past century.

[PGalt]

Al “Convenient Opinion” Gore will not like this challenge. (pssst...the iced tea defense will not work on this one Al, neither will the nimzo-indian defense)

[IrishMike]

Won’t the polar bears swim to the rescue ?

[SJSAMPLE]

Yep.
They claim to predict the future, buy none of their models can predict or explain past data.

[ElkGroveDan]

There’s too much at stake to just sit back and do nothing. It’s all so very terrifying. ....

Do I win?

[Kimmers]

It is really hot here and has been for the past week.....I attribute the heat to the current season of summer.

I am so thankful for the news and the various government warnings telling us how to survive in this heat.....(sarc)

[SuperSonic]

YouTube - Can you save Al Gore?

[COUNTrecount]

Half the population of the world is female.

Females have hot flashes.

They raise the temperature of the earth.

Tipper is guilty of this.

I win.

[IrishMike]

Thanks for the link,
hat tip the tag line !

[IrishMike]

Maybe, contact Steven Milloy.

[Izzy Dunne]

Al Gore continues to duck every person on the planet willing to debate him

If it walks like a quack, and talks like a quack, and ducks like a quack...

IT MUST BE A QUACK!

[Triggerhippie]

Bush’s fault!

Did I win the money?

[rhombus]

Didn’t I just read somewhere that the opposition to global warming is supposed to be well funded? Hah!

[ari-freedom]

aren’t those balanced by cold showers?

[LiteKeeper]

I am going to watch this one carefully...or not!