Craig Compeau wants to discuss global warming. The Fairbanks, Alaska businessman and self-described global warming critic has invited debate on the topic. He erected an eight-and-a-half foot statue of Al Gore to spur the debate and has invited the former VP to come and engage. The hook? Al Gore is made entirely from ice.
Mr. Gore, perhaps best known in popular culture for his award-winning global-warming film An Inconvenient Truth, is a consistent topic of debate on the issue since his film was found to contain large amounts of doctored and misleading footage. Gore has made millions of dollars and a Nobel Prize for his efforts, and along the way he has paved a path for activist governments to combat the perception of global warming.
For his part, Compeau, covered in the News-Miner, seems ready to square off with Al Gore and debate the issue:
Compeau, who manages an outdoor recreation sporting goods store, is coupling the unveiling with a fundraiser to benefit the Presbyterian Hospitality House, a local nonprofit. Anyone — skeptic or not — can play by guessing whether this winter will be warmer or colder, and by how much, than was the winter of 1947-1948. Gore was born on March 31, 1948.
Compeau used Monday’s unveiling to publicly invite the Nobel-winner to visit Interior Alaska — specifically, Tetlin Junction, where reports indicated temperatures earlier this month bottomed out at close to 80 degrees below zero — and explain, first-hand, global warming theories. He even offered specifics — if Gore travels by electric car and speaks exactly one year after then temperature there hit bottom — on Jan. 8, 2010 — Compeau and others will cover his room and board.
Compeau described himself as a moderate skeptic of those who “rabidly” believe man-made emissions are contributing to a rise in global temperatures. Gore won his Nobel for raising awareness of global warming as one of the greatest challenges facing mankind.
“Be skeptical. Or not. But research it yourself,” Compeau told the roughly three dozen onlookers and reporters gathered at the corner of Airport Way and Cushman Street at 10 a.m. Monday under gray skies. “There’s a lot on both sides.”
With a reported 650 scientists challenging the legitimacy of the latest UN-sponsored report that repeated the hyperbolic warnings of global doom, and mounting data that the earth is actually cooling, now might be a good time to have the debate.
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