Al Gore Challenged to International TV Debate on Global Warming
Mar 19 04:30 AM US/Eastern
PERTH, Scotland, March 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- 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."
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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!"