Open letter to DemocracyNow!

February 1, 2010

STORY IDEA
Debate between Dr. James Hansen (frequent guest on your show) and Daniel Foty (Vermont Tiger) on the existence of global warming

Dear DemocracyNow!,

The consensus of 2,000 climate scientists cited by the 2007 IPCC report has lost so much credibility recently, it is impossible for the general public to weigh the evidence. I graduated from MIT, and I sure cannot figure it out, even though I have devoted substantial time and correspondence with leading scientists and politicians. Meanwhile, Fox News and other right leaning media constantly challenge the existence of global warming and its causes. Who among the general public is to say the skeptics are wrong?

We need an hour or longer recorded discussion between one of the credible, informed skeptics and someone such as Dr. James Hansen, frequent guest on your show.

An excellent skeptic, Daniel Foty, is available here in Vermont for such a debate. Mr. Foty publishes frequently in an influential Vermont news website, VermontTiger. Mr. Foty credibly reopens the question of whether global warming is real.

Either Mr. Foty is right, or Dr. Hansen is right.

Mr. Foty has accepted a challenge to debate Dr. Hansen, or I would presume, anyone of Dr. Hansen's caliber. Some of Mr. Foty's criticism of Dr. Hansen is provided via the link below to a discussion with Mr. Foty.

Could DemocracyNow possibly help bring Dr. Hansen or other major figure to discuss the reality of global warming, here in Vermont, in a debate with Mr. Foty? If not in person, then by phone?

WHY DO THIS IN VERMONT?