Global Warming Debate - It's Not Over

Some things that you won't see in the major media about global warming....

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 New York City audience laughed as Gore became the butt of humor during the debate.

...NASA’s Gavin Schmidt, one of the scientists debating for the notion of a man-made global warming "crisis" conceded after the debate that his side was ‘pretty dull’ and was at "a sharp disadvantage." Schmidt made the comments in a March 15 blog posting at RealClimate.org.

One commenter at Jennifer Marohasy's site who has followed this said, "I notice that Gavin Schmidt of the RealClimate site thought they lost the debate because Crichton was so tall and had a greater presence." Remember, "Real Climate" is the site of preference to quote for people who don't know much about AGW but still strongly believe that it is an immediate crisis. And, wasn't Al Gore taller and have more presence than President Bush during their debate when Gore broke protocol and walked over to Bush? We know who won that one, though.

Now, the global warming deceivers are playing "I wish I had said this or thought of that."

Next, for Al Gore's upcoming meeting with a Senate committee....

From behind the scenes on Capitol Hill: Former Vice President Al Gore, despite being given major preferential treatment, has violated the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee’s (EPW) hearing rules.

...The word on Capitol Hill says not to expect Gore’s testimony to the Senate EPW committee until Wednesday (March 21) -- the day of the hearing. It appears that Gore does not believe the same rules apply to him that apply to every other Senate EPW witness.

The question looms on Capitol Hill: Is Gore delaying the submission of his testimony until the very last moment because he fears it will give members of the EPW committee time to scrutinize it for accuracy?

Gore's getting special treatment is what he expects, as he doesn't believe that he has to follow the same rules as others or the ones that he preaches (See "Al Gore's unility bill.) Maybe if he stands up tall and intimidates the Senate committee members, he can feel that he won.