More Debates, Please
If we had more debates on Global Warming, we’d probably have more results like this (provided there are decent communicators on the skeptics side).
Just days before former Vice President Al Gore’s scheduled visit to testify about global warming before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works, a high profile climate debate between prominent scientists Wednesday evening ended with global warming skeptics being voted the clear winner by a tough New York City before an audience of hundreds of people.
Before the start of the nearly two hour debate the audience polled 57.3% to 29.9% in favor of believing that Global Warming was a “crisis”, but following the debate the numbers completely flipped to 46.2% to 42.2% in favor of the skeptical point of view. The audience also found humor at the expense of former Vice President Gore’s reportedly excessive home energy use.
After the stunning victory, one of the scientists on the side promoting the belief in a climate “crisis” appeared to concede defeat by noting his debate team was ‘pretty dull” and at “a sharp disadvantage” against the skeptics. ScientificAmerican.com’s blog agreed, saying the believers in a man-made climate catastrophe “seemed underarmed for the debate and, not surprising, it swung against them.”
The New York City audience laughed as Gore became the butt of humor during the debate.
[via This is My Boomstick]
Gore is schedule to debate Inhofe about GW, too. Inhofe knows his shit and is going to wipe the floor with him, since Gore has never debated the subject before, just preached to the converted, where as Inhofe has been publicly debating the subject with GW acolytes for several years.
This is one Senatorial debate I’m watching live on C-SPAN.Posted by on 03/20 at 12:42 AMWhat date & time is this one scheduled for. I’d like to tape it.
Posted by on 03/20 at 02:17 PMYeah, I am looking forward to that myself.
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