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by Halliburton Shill on December 16th, 2009

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Why is Sarah Palin afraid to debate Al Gore on climate change?

Palin Backing Down from Debate with Al Gore

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  • by RC loves ice cream on December 16th, 2009

    RC loves ice cream

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    Selected by the asker, Halliburton Shill. (What's this?)

    She'd have to learn what it means first.

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  • by Tallyman on January 5th, 2010

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    She's not afraid:

    "Al Gore said the other week that climate change is "a principle in physics. It's like gravity. It exists." Sarah Palin agreed that "climate change is like gravity," but added a better conclusion: Each is "a naturally occurring phenomenon that existed long before, and will exist long after, any governmental attempts to affect it."

    "In our earth's history there has been both global warming and global cooling. In Roman times, from 200 B.C. to A.D. 600, it was warm; from 600 to 900 came the cold Dark Ages; more warming from 900 to 1300; and another ice age from 1300 to 1850. Within the past century, the earth has warmed by 0.6 degree Celsius, but within this period we can see marked shifts: cooling (1900-10), warming (1910-40), cooling again (1940 to nearly 1980), and since then a little warming. The Hadley Climatic Research Unit global temperature record shows that from 1980 to 2009, the world warmed by 0.16 degree Celsius per decade.

    As for the impact of reducing global warming, Bjorn Lomborg, director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, outlined in The Wall Street Journal that Oxfam concluded that if wealthy nations diverted $50 billion to climate change that "at least 4.5 million children would die and 8.6 million fewer people could have access to HIV/AIDS treatment." And if we spent it on reducing carbon emissions? It would "reduce temperatures by all of one-thousandth of one degree Fahrenheit over the next hundred years."
    ~http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704905704574622643206570348.html

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  • by imgonnahidenow on December 20th, 2009

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    i definitely agree with ice cream here, well said

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  • by Glenn Blaylock on December 20th, 2009

    Glenn Blaylock

    A better question is, "Why is Al Gore afraid to debate on climate change?"

    There are many people who have challenged Gore to debate this issue. To date, he has refused to debate any of them. In stead, he hides be hind his bogus claim that the debate is over. So, if he is so sure of his side, why will he not answer any of the challenges. From what is he running?

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  • by FlyingUbercapitalistPig on December 3rd, 2010

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    More importantly is why is Al gore afraid to debate anyone with an IQ above ten?

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  • by Tallyman on January 4th, 2010

    Tallyman

    She would easily win. All she'd have to do is address his tales of 20 foot tidal waves and "several million degrees" 2KM beneath the surface of the Earth....the surface of the Sun is about 12,000 degrees.

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