Environment

Gore v. Monckton – It's the throwdown we've all been waiting for

Posted by Trevor Scott Howell in Environment

With the climate summit in Copenhagen fast approaching and the rhetoric between the two warring factions of the global warming debate (or not) reaching a fevered pitch, it's easy to lose interest and disregard anything, anyone has to say.

So when all other avenues to settle a score fail we can always count on a good old-fashion rap throwdown between two of the biggest climate media stars/blowhards to help us regain perspective.

In one corner, jet-setting enviro-hero and first-place loser in the 2000 U.S. presidential election Al Gore. In the other, AGW skeptic, self-proclaimed 'Lord' and published 'scientist' Christopher Monckton. The moderator of this mock-televised debate, Melbourne-based spoken word MC Hugo Farrant.

 


more in Environment     |     posted Nov 27th, 2009 at 8:36am     

Comments: 1

Agent666 wrote:

The problem with the global warming hysteria is twofold. First of all, countries like India and Brazil want off the hook, to continue breeding like bunnies and acting as foreign outsourcing posts for CO2-pumping industries. As steel plants in North America, Europe and Japan close, transnationals just move them to dirtier facilities in the developing world (e.g., slave labour-run, rainforest charcoal-fuelled smelters in the Amazon, supplying something like 40% of the pig iron that gets made into cold-rolled steel for cars). Also, 'The Day After Tomorrow' hysteria is used to push people to accept dirty, dangerous, expensive nuclear power and environment-wrecking hydroelectric energy (Three Gorges, &c.).

on Dec 3rd, 2009 at 1:49pm Report Abuse


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