Mr. Gore stuck to his prepared script about the urgency of taking action to curb global greenhouse-gas emissions, down to well-worn phrases he trots out at conferences across the country: America is at “a political tipping point” on climate change, and even if Washington has failed to address the energy challenge in the last 35 years, “political will is a renewable resource.”
But he was challenged by Mr. Lomborg, the Danish skeptical environmentalist who thinks the world would be better off spending more money on health and education issues than curbing carbon emissions.
“I don’t mean to corner you, or maybe I do mean to corner you, but would you be willing to have a debate with me on that point?” asked the polo-shirt wearing Dane.
“I want to be polite to you,” Mr. Gore responded. But, no. “The scientific community has gone through this chapter and verse. We have long since passed the time when we should pretend this is a ‘on the one hand, on the other hand’ issue,” he said. “It’s not a matter of theory or conjecture, for goodness sake,” he added.
(Gore also trots out the long-debunked "3000 scientists" canard. You know, anyone can find a roomful of like-minded people on any issue and call it "a consensus". Doesn't mean anything. Climate is affected by literally hundreds of factors. To suggest that we can track its cause down to a single trace gas in the atmosphere is laughable on the face of it. Also, both Mr. Gore and Mr. Pickens are very wealthy men who are heavily invested financially in the green industry and who stand to make billions if they get their way. This isn't mentioned enough, particularly when we ought to be considering MOTIVE. Yet we face potential new taxation based on absurd "cap and trade" schemes aimed at filling government coffers and bankrupting the rest of us. No wonder Gore isn't interested in debating Lomborg. Think about it. -Roland)
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