Climate Debate Skeptics Once Again Sway Undecided Vote in Leading Debate Forum | SYS-CON INDIA

NEW YORK, NY -- (Marketwire) -- 01/14/09 -- Intelligence Squared U.S., the Oxford style debate series sponsored by The Rosenkranz Foundation, announced the results of its first debate of the Spring 2009 season, "Major reductions in carbon emissions are not worth the money." In a dramatic shift, 25% of the undecided vote sided with the motion by the end of the debate. In the final tally at the conclusion of the debate, a sold out audience at Symphony Space, New York City, voted 42% for the motion and 48% against. Ten percent remained undecided.

Prior to the debate, the audience at Symphony Space, New York City, voted 16% for the motion and 49% against. 35% were undecided.

The results echoed a similar outcome on the proposition, "Global warming is not a crisis," an Intelligence Squared U.S. debate held on March 14, 2007. The Global Warming debate produced an initial vote tally of 29% for the motion and 57% against. At the conclusion of the debate, the vote margins had reversed with 46% for the motion and 42% against.

The Great Beyond: Jackson: Guided by science

Lisa Jackson, President-Elect Barack Obama’s pick to lead the US Environmental Protection Agency, delivered a simple message to senators on Wednesday: “If I am confirmed, I will administer with science as my guide.”
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Environment and Public Works Committee Chairwoman Barbara Boxer, a California Democrat, proclaimed Jackson’s endorsement of science and the rule of law “music to my ears.” The ranking Republican on the panel, James Inhofe of Oklahoma, used the same phrase in a very different way. A long-time climate skeptic, Inhofe asked Jackson to read his latest speech on the matter and get back to him.

PIERS AKERMAN: Cold comfort

As the wilder theories of global warmings most fervent prophets, think former US vice president Al Gore, are reduced to smoking rubble and yet more scientific evidence disproves the elaborate constructs of computer modelling, Australian conservatives should regard with caution the calls that they need to be ardent in their wooing of the environmental movement.