Why are climate change skeptics calling for a debate on the issue?
That depends what kind of debate they’re calling for. ‘Skeptics’ often call for public debates, often demanding that Al Gore participate. This is because verbal debates are won with rhetoric rather than substance – it’s easy to lie in a debate, and in that kind of forum a lie is impossible to disprove. A fact that Richard Lindzen has taken advantage of: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;… And of course they call for Al Gore to debate precisely because he’s not a climate scientist, but rather a politician. Conservative gives a good example of such a debate tactic, claiming “The debate wouldn’t last long. We’d just point to the cooling trend.” No denier (including Conservative) has ever provided evidence of a statistically significant cooling trend, because none exists. But in a verbal debate, they could certainly claim that one exists, and the opposition could n
