The most recent such loss at the game of Chicken was April 24, 2009, when the prophet-in-his-own-mind Al Gore gave testimony before the House Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment. Representative Joe Barton (R) had invited Lord Christopher Monckton, one of England's renowned AGW critics, to also testify there the same day. But the Democrats refused to allow him to testify.
Said Monckton about being stiffed, "The House Democrats don't want Gore humiliated, so they slammed the door of the Capitol in my face. They are cowards."
Take heart though: Lord Monckton has testified before Congress earlier this year. The only real question is whether Congress listened.
Recall also the cowardly name-calling that the AGW zealots use to discredit their critics. Al Gore has for several years compared AGW critics to those who claim the Moon landings were a hoax. However, someone who has actually walked on the Moon, astronaut Jack Schmitt, has come out as a AGW 'denier':
"The ‘global warming scare’ is being used as a political tool to increase government control over American lives, incomes and decision making. It has no place in the Society's activities," Schmitt wrote on November 17, 2008. "As a geologist, I love Earth observations. But it is ridiculous to tie this objective to a "consensus" that humans are causing global warming when human experience, geologic data and history, and current cooling can argue otherwise. ‘Consensus,’ as many have said, merely represents the absence of definitive science," Schmitt explained.(I love that this last link was to a US Senate website!)
Meanwhile, while we are debating a carbon tax, oops, cap and trade system that will further damage our ailing economy, low temperature records that have stood for almost 130 years have fallen in Canada, and Australia is waking up to the dangers posed by this ridiculous idea and is becoming a denier nation.
Hopefully we will wake up in the USA before we do something really stupid while we're sleepwalking.
