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Armstrong has challenged the former vice president to a 10-year bet, in which $10,000 from the two would be set aside in escrow as Gore pits his forecast of how much global temperature will increase during that time against a so-called "naive model," in which temperature would be expected to stay the same.
The winner would get to donate the $20,000 and accumulated interest to the charity of his choice.
Armstrong explained that the idea of a bet arose out of research a colleague and he - both specialists in forecasting - had done on global-warming forecasts put out by Gore and organizations like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations-sponsored entity formed to help achieve scientific consensus on climate change.
Armstrong said that he discovered that most climate-change forecasts use bad methodology.
An inconvenient bet? Professor Bets Al Gore $10,000 He's Wrong About Global Warming
Seeded on Fri Jun 22, 2007 11:48 AM EDT
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I think Armstrong meant to say that most meteorologists who've said climate-change isn't a problem use no methodology, research or common sense at all, just seat of the pants arrogance and not wanting to eat crow.
- 3 votes
#2 - Fri Jun 22, 2007 11:59 AM EDT
Nope. This is what he said:
"We've been unable to find any scientific forecast, and what we have are forecasts by scientists," he said.
Swarthmore's not too shabby, either.
- 6 votes
Now, if Gore did take the bet, would that mean that we have to suffer more for the next ten years. Seems like him taking it, would convince people further . . .
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