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!"

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