Al Gore Faces New Debate Challenge Expert

Battle of best-selling authors

    CHICAGO, Aug. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Best-selling author Dennis
 Avery is the next prominent figure to challenge the facts Al Gore is
 promoting in his global warming crusade. Mr. Avery is co-author of
 Unstoppable Global Warming Every 1,500 Years. Both Al Gore and Dennis Avery
 have New York Times best-selling books on global warming, but with opposite
 conclusions.
     The list of Al Gore detractors continues to grow as his extreme
 rhetoric and conclusions get dissected by scientists, economists, and
 researchers. Avery joins Lord Christopher Monckton (former Prime Minister
 Margaret Thatcher advisor), Bjorn Lomborg (Danish economist), author
 Michael Crichton, Prof. S. Fred Singer (former director of the U.S.
 National Weather Service), Tim Ball, Ph.D. (historical climatologist),
 Prof. Ian Clark (University of Ottawa), and Prof. Richard Lindzen (MIT)
 among others.
     Gore claims recent climate change is the result of human activities,
 and society must give up most of its energy supply to prevent global
 catastrophe. Conversely, Avery amassed physical evidence of past
 warming/cooling cycles and experimental evidence demonstrating variations
 in solar activity affect Earth's constantly varying temperatures.
     "My book says our warming is natural, unstoppable-and not very
 dangerous anyway," stated Avery.
     "These books represent the two leading explanations for the Earth's
 recent temperature changes-and they conflict. If global warming truly is
 the most important public policy issue of our day, then it is high time the
 public got to hear the arguments from both sides matched up against each
 other," continued Avery.
     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.
     Contact: Tom Swiss of The Heartland Institute, +1-312-377-4000,
 +1-773-485-9477, tswiss@heartland.org.
 
 

SOURCE The Heartland Institute