Al Gore Should Get Ready for a Grilling
Sen. Jim Inhofe Prepares for Battle
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Republican Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma invited a select group of bloggers to his hideaway office in the U.S. Capitol today to preview tomorrow's Environment and Public Works Committee hearing with Al Gore on global warming. (Photos available on Flickr.)
Inhofe said his top priority would be keeping Gore from filibustering -- using up the little time that committee chairwoman Sen. Barbara Boxer has given senators for questioning. Inhofe said he has 12 minutes to cover a lot of ground with Gore. I asked Inhofe if we would give us a sense of what he might ask. He politely declined, but said we wouldn't be disappointed.
The fireworks start tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. in the Dirksen Senate Office Building. Inhofe said it would be up to bloggers to closely scrutinize Gore's rhetoric. Inhofe got things started today with an op-ed in The Politico, saying "global warming fearmongers have overplayed their hand and are now suffering a massive scientific and media backlash."
Read on ...
Chris Horner, author of the bestselling Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming (and Environmentalism)," said he would be overseeing a "truth squad" for the Competitive Enterprise Institute, where he works. Others at the meeting included Amanda Carpenter of Human Events, Ken Shepherd of NewsBusters, Will Packer of the Heritage Foundation, Steve Milloy of JunkScience, and David and Amy Ridenour of the National Center for Public Policy Research.
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He's really being piled on now. First Senator Imhofe will hammer him, then Lord Monckton will take over.
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Al Gore Challenged to International TV Debate on Global Warming
PERTH, Scotland, March 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a formal invitation sent to former Vice-President Al Gore's Tennessee address and released to the public, Lord Monckton has thrown down the gauntlet to challenge Gore to what he terms "the Second Great Debate," an internationally televised, head-to-head, nation-unto-nation confrontation
on the question, "That our effect on climate is not dangerous."
(http://ff.org/centers/csspp/docs/20070316_monckton.html)
Monckton, a former policy adviser to Margaret Thatcher during her years as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, said, "A careful study of the substantial corpus of peer-reviewed science reveals that Mr. Gore's film, An Inconvenient Truth, is a foofaraw of pseudo-science, exaggerations, and errors, now being peddled to innocent schoolchildren worldwide."
Monckton and Gore have once before clashed head to head on the science, politics, and religion of global warming in the usually-decorous pages of the London Sunday Telegraph last November.
Monckton calls on the former Vice President to "step up to the plate and defend his advocacy of policies that could do grave harm to the welfare of the world's poor. If Mr. Gore really believes global warming is the defining issue of our time, the greatest threat human civilization has ever faced, then he should welcome the opportunity to raise the profile of the
issue before a worldwide audience of billions by defining and defending his claims against a serious, science-based challenge."
The arena of the glittering "Second Great Debate" will be the elegant, Victorian-Gothic Library of the Oxford Museum of Natural History, which was the setting for the "Great Debate" between the natural scientist T. H. Huxley and Bishop "Soapy Sam" Wilberforce on the theory of evolution,following the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species. Lord Monckton says
he chose this historic venue "not only because the magnificent, Gothic architecture will be a visually-stunning setting for the debate but also because I hope that in this lofty atmosphere the caution and scepticism of true science will once again prevail, this time over the shibboleths and
nostrums of the false, new religion of climate alarmism."
Lord Monckton's resounding challenge to Al Gore reads as follows --
"The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley presents his compliments to Vice-President Albert Gore and by these presents challenges the said former Vice-President to a head-to-head, internationally-televised debate upon the question, 'That our effect on climate is not dangerous,' to be held in the Library of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History at a date of the Vice-President's choosing.
"Forasmuch as it is His Lordship who now flings down the gauntlet to the Vice-President, it shall be the Vice-President's prerogative and right to choose his weapons by specifying the form of the Great Debate. May the Truth win!
Magna est veritas, et praevalet. God Bless America! God Save
the Queen!"
They should grill Gore like they did Valarie Plame!!! Yeah baby.
That's bad for Global Waaaaarming...
But it's a nice thought.
(And no, you sickos, I'm not talking about literally grilling the Gorecaster. I never even thought such a thing, really.)
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See the Academy
I would have preferred scientists to refute Gore's claims. We would look more credible if this is the case. Besides, what if the Democrats bring scientists the likes of James Hansen? Hansen vs. blogger scares me.
I'm going with troll at this point.
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The CIA has better politicians than it has spies - Fred Thompson
bloggers will make us look better than scientists. Bloggers' credibility and expertise is superior.
You, going back to where you came from. If you need help lifting the rock just let us know. We'll help lift it so you can slide back in.
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Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hanged. — J. Michael Waller
I wait with bated (maybe baited) breath.
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The CIA has better politicians than it has spies - Fred Thompson
From the same EPW page that Drudge shut down earlier this year.
Excerpt:
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.
Gore first demanded to be granted an unprecedented 30 minute opening statement to the Senate EPW Committee for Wednesday’s (March 21) global warming hearing scheduled for 2:30 pm ET.
(See "FULL COMMITTEE: Vice President Al Gore’s Perspective on Global Warming" )
The GOP minority on the EPW committee agreed to the 30 minute opening statement.
But then Gore demanded a waiver of the EPW committee’s 48 hour rule that requires all witnesses before EPW to submit their testimony in advance. The GOP minority on the EPW committee then agreed to waive the 48 hour rule in favor of allowing Gore to submit his testimony 24 hours before the hearing.
But in a breaking news development on Capitol Hill -- the former Vice President has violated the new 24 hour deadline extension by failing to submit his testimony – even with the new time extension granted to Gore.
As of 8pm ET Tuesday evening, the testimony still has not been received by EPW, a clear violation of committee 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?
The Senator absolutely _mezmorized_ the crowd, as he debunked Global Warming and entertained us in the process. I'm telling you, this man has his head on straight and has chosen Global Warming as his hot button issue. I'm glad. Not a better person out there to take on Gore. I am SURE Inhofe is itching for this.
tell Algore that he should talk to my next door neighbor's dog about carbon credits. Damn dog has a stockpile in my yard.
there is no distinctly native criminal class in America except Congress

Gore the bore!