Who should debate Patrick Moore?
 
 

Who should we challenge to debate Patrick Moore?

We are hosting a visit by Patrick Moore on the 4th and 5th November this year. Don't know who Patrick Moore is? According to his Wikipedia entry he is:

...a Canadian ecologist, known as one of the early members of Greenpeace...[who] has sharply and publicly differed with many policies of major environmental groups, such as Greenpeace itself, on other issues including forestry, biotechnology, aquaculture, and the use of chemicals for flame retardants. He is an outspoken proponent of nuclear energy and skeptical of sole human responsibility for climate change.

The highlight will be a town hall meeting on the evening of the 5th (the 4th is Melbourne Cup Day, so he will have some competition for publicity while he is here), and we'd like to make this meeting a debate between Patrick and a proponent of Catastrophic Global Warming.

The question is "Who should we challenge to debate him?"

The answer? Well, you tell us. I have posted a questionnaire with a shortlist on it. Please go to the questionnaire and tell us who you prefer. We'll use this poll as the basis for approaching them in order of preference.

If you know anyone else who could be interested in expressing an opinion, please feel free to forward this email, or the link to the questionnaire, on to them.

When we have a challenger we'll give you details of time and venue.

Kind regards,

Graham Young
Executive Director
Australian Institute for Progress

read more