Posts Tagged ‘Global warming debates’

Oxford Union Debate on Climate Catastrophe

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

Source:  Climate Conservation Group

by Richard Treadgold

the Oxford Union building
The lovely old Oxford Union building. It’s nice to know that there are still places where reason and intellect roam free.
[SPPI Note:  The Oxford debate took place earlier this year, in May.]

Science 135, global warming scare 110

For what is believed to be the first time ever in England, an audience of university undergraduates has decisively rejected the notion that “global warming” is or could become a global crisis. The only previous defeat for climate extremism among an undergraduate audience was at St. Andrew’s University, Scotland, in the spring of 2009, when the climate extremists were defeated by three votes.

Last week, members of the historic Oxford Union Society, the world’s premier debating society, carried the motion “That this House would put economic growth before combating climate change” by 135 votes to 110. The debate was sponsored by the Science and Public Policy Institute, Washington DC. (more…)