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By Jay Allbritton - Politics DailyLast week some of Al Gore's critics interpreted his decision not to accept climate-change skeptic J. Scott Armstrong's Global Warming Challenge--a $10,000 bet on whose 10-year forecast is more accurate, with the money going to charity--as a lack of willingness by the former Vice President to put his money where his mouth is on the environment. Gore refused the bet, but he has since laid those doubts to rest with the announcement of an aggressive and expensive public-advocacy campaign to which he's contributing millions of dollars he earned from the movie An Inconvenient Truth, the book of the ...
Gore Won't Put His Money Where His Mouth Is
By Justin Paulette - Politics DailyToday is the deadline of the Global Warming Challenge - a bet proposed by J. Scott Armstrong, a climate-change skeptic who doubts the varsity of climate forecasting models upon which Al Gore had based many of his dooms-day predictions. The challenge dictates that Armstrong and Gore each put $10,000 into a Charitable Trust Fund. Armstrong then proposes to forecast temperature change more accurately than any climate model Gore chooses over a 10-year period. Armstrong forecasts that global mean temperature will not change. Gore insisted that he was too busy to enter into the bet by the original ...
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