Why won't Al and pals debate the global warming issue?

Question

Gore has refused all debate challengers to date. Joseph Bast, president of The Heartland Institute, noted, "Maybe it's because climate alarmists tend to lose when they debate climate realists. Or because most scientists do not support climate alarmism." The Heartland Institute has run more than $500,000 of ads in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Washington Times promoting a debate.

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Answer 1

I think it's absolutely ridiculous how all these bafoons are making such a big deal over a slight temperature change. Did you know, the reason everyone is so upset is because the Earth's average temperature for the past 100 years has risen .5 degrees? And did you also know that over 70% of scientists disagree with global warming? It's true! Al Gore is a wimp, and he's afraid of being challenged by and losing to someone that will shed the light and expose his lies to everyone.

Answer 2

Gore refuses to debate scientists on the global warming issue for the same reason that Wilford Brimley wouldn't be called upon to debate the causes and cures for diabetes. Gore is a spokesperson, not a scientist. If the Anti global warming crowd wants to look credible, why don't they debate with fellow scientists instead of constantly going after Gore.

Morgan Spurlock didn't go after the guy in the Ronald McDonald suit.

Answer 3

Scientists have "debated" global warming by researching the issue and publishing scientific papers. They read eachothers' evidence and decide if the conclusions in the paper are sound, and do their own research on the issue. By this point, virtually all scientists have concluded that humans are the primary cause of the current global warming.

In 2004 an article in Science magazine discussed a study by Prof. Naomi Oreskes in which she surveyed 928 scientific journal articles that matched the search [global climate change] at the ISI Web of Science. Of these, according to Oreskes, 75% agreed with the consensus view (either implicitly or explicitly), 25% took no stand one way or the other, and none rejected the consensus.

http://www.norvig.com/oreskes.html

Al Gore is not a scientist. If the "scientists" who are skeptical of global warming want to debate him rather than debating other scientists, that's pretty revealing, don't you think? That's like the Tampa Bay Devil Rays being so tired of getting whooped by MLB teams that they decide to challenge the Harvard baseball team.

Answer 4

Al Gore turn flopped whilst he enable Bush scouse borrow the election and conceded understanding there have been improprieties. After that 0 credibility. same with Kerry 2. To me politics is purely a three ring circus., organic fiction. like they say politics and faith.

Answer 5

There's nothing to 'debate'. Climate change isn't a matter of opinion....it's a matter of tens of thousands of data points all pointing at the same conclusion. There is no argument anymore...even George Bush has said so...imagine that? The artic ice cap is melting...glaciers are receding...coral reefs are dieing...tropical birds, insects and animals are found further north than ever....the tree line is moving north and up and the summers are getting longer and the winters shorter. There is no counter argument, so what is there to debate? Sea levels are slowly rising worldwide...Holland, England and France are taking measures and navies, including the US Navy have plans to patrol an ice free artic ocean.

Rising oceans. As more liquid water enters the oceans a slight rise can be expected...but there's more involved. Warm water expands taking up more volume. Even a slight increase in ocean temperature translates into a significant expansion of ocean water and warmer water means heavier storm surges and higher tides. As literally billions of people live in lands bordering oceans, this is going to be a problem...no matter what the Heartland Institute says!

Answer 6

Well, he knows that he will lose. The emissions that have been produced in all of human history could not raise the temperature on Mars by 1 degree..... which does no justice to Gores theory.

Answer 7

Most environmentalist don't wish to add economics into the discussion. They also don't want any solution outside their economy killing solution proposed. The worst fact in the inconvenient trust is if one kills the economy even less will be spent on disposal of waste.

Answer 8

The claims of global warming are promoted by self interested groups with little to substantiate their claims. In actual fact the world stands to profit from the extra CO2, but not if you have waterfront real estate. It is not unlike the dreaded YK2 virus and CFC hole in the ozone layer...

Answer 9

The Heartland Istitute has the most intelligent people on the planet, if they say there is no global warming then THERE IS NO GLOBAL WARMING. It doesn't matter that nearly all scientists agree global warming is taking place and that it is casueed at least in part by man. The Heartland Institute is smart enough to find someone somewhere to tell those scientists they are idiots. No wonder a liberal like Al Gore fears them.

Answer 10

There are several issues here, first Gore is not a scientist but that has not stopped him from presenting his inconvenient lies as such. If he was sincere in this he could put up a scientist to debate for him. But he will not

There are NO scientists who will debate for AGW because none of them believe Gores lies.

EDIT: For no skilz below me, your so called scientists have not published anything. Please submit a link to peer reviewed papers that prove AGW, or admit you are following the Big Lie.

EDIT: for sage and failure, the IPCC report has been discredited by the scientists who were on the first panel, they have stated that the UN took the data and manipulated it to get the result they wanted, that the report is produced by a bureaucrat and is not supported by data. You would think you could come up with something at least not already discredited, and you want the world to change based on one stinking lying report. Hey you may follow this stuff blindly but most reasoning people want a little more real data