What questions would be good for enviro. speaker?

Question

We're having the Algore trained "Peter Sinclair" give a presentation in our city. I'd love to ask some intelligent questions which will help debunk the global warming hype. I have a hunch that activists and zealots constantly shrilling over atmospheric carbon dioxide have the main goal of gaining power and control over global economies.

Answer 1

THE INVISIBLE FORCEFIELD=(OZONE) IS BEING WEAKENED ENOUGH TO ALLOW THE SUNS HEAT TO CAUSE THE GLACIERS TO MELT, OUR FORESTS ARE BURNING  UP,  ALL DISASTERS TO EXPAND AND ATTITUDES TO CHANGE MENTALLY IN US AND ANIMALS. WHAT IS CAUSING the suns rays to do this+ bring in excessive heat, but not allow our atmosphere to escape, yet not allow outer space to enter our atmosphere, yet solids can pass through? all non-solids decipate in the cold thinned air and you can prove it, by starting a safe fire and watching the smoke decipate in front of your eyes, including black smoke. CONGRESS ORDERED THE  E.P.A. TO PROVE THAT NON- SOLIDS WERE THE CAUSE TO DEPLEAT OUR OZONE LAST YEAR. BUT THEY CANT, BECAUSE ALL NON-SOLIDS DECIPATE, SO THAT WAS NEVER PROVEN.AL GORE IS JUST TRYING TO DUPE EVERYONE TO GET $300 MILLION OUT OF THE PUBLIC FOR EXPENCES AND A $200 MILLION PROFIT. ALSO GLOBAL WARMING IS VERY REAL.

Answer 2

Ask a question about the shortcomings of modeling, or about how the models have improved in the last decade.

Answer 3

Ask him how come the temperature only went up by a tenth of one degree celsius in the past 100 years, and not at all since 1998.

Ask him about Gore's latest movie where he used styrofoam when showing crumbling and collapsing ice?  (That scene was 'stolen' from a movie called 'The Day After Tomorrow'...it is exactly the same scene and the models were made of styrofoam!!)

Ask him his views on using oil, and exploring for it.  I bet he'd be firmly against it.

See if he'd be willing to take a lie-detector test.

Ask if he's influenced by money?  Almost certainly he is.

Ask him about polar bears.  Are they really threatened?  If he answers yes, he's wrong. I live in Canada and am fully aware of the status of polar bears and the arctic (which isn't melting).

Ask if Gore plans to use this deception to run again politically.

Ask him if Gore already owns a company prepared to take control of money made from carbon credits.  If he says no, he's lying.

Ask him why he chooses to be so psychologically unbalanced.

Answer 4

You won't debunk the theory, there are to many parts that explain things quite well.  But your idea is great.  

Stay away from the things that scientist know with certainty (don't ask is the climate changing, is it getting hotter, is CO2 in the air making it warmer, are human causing climate change).  These are very softball questions and the data is overwhelming that says yes.  This will just let him show slide after slide of "evidence."

Stick him with something like "I understand there is a lot of uncertainty about climate change and it's possible effects.  Can you break down the uncertainty into some general parts like the science behind climate change, the physical impacts on climate and weather, the impacts on ecosystems, the responses of ecosystems, the economic impacts on people, and and what is the best way for people to respond to this and explain how the uncertainty affects predictions?"    Take the ones that seem the hardest.  He can't possible answer this!

Some parts of the climate to focus on are oceans' roles, clouds' roles, natural variation of climate, and particles in the air.  Ask him to explain how scientist incorporate these into their predictions and how they deal with the variation.

Some physical impacts to ask about are storm strength, ice melts, precipitation changes, ocean current responses, detecting changes looking at the daily weather.  How certain are they of these changes and what is the best case scenario?

Some biological impacts to ask about - "why are species extinctions important to the well-being of people?"  "Won't better plant growth and expanded ranges offset the build up of CO2 and reduce warming?"  "Won't we be able to grow more food to feed more people?"  "Won't animals be better off because there is more to eat in more places?"

Some questions for the economic impacts "How much does global warming "cost" now?  How much will it cost in the future?  Who should pay for the cleanup?  Is it climate change worth worrying about - won't spending a lot of money now mean that more poor people have to suffer because all the money used to help them is now going to fighting climate change?  How much money will people save if we stop it up now instead of later if there is a problem?

These are the real tough questions.  I'd be real interested in how he responds.

Answer 5

Ask him how the shrinkage of the Martian polar icecaps could be the result of human activity. While he fumbles suggest the possibility of fluctuations in solar activity.