The striking thing about the “Manhattan Declaration” that ended the Heartland Institute’s global-warming skeptics’ conference this week wasn’t its rejection of man-made global warming or the host of alternative scientific theories. No — the first recommendation the group made after days filled with scores of presentations and films was to take a shot at the Nobel prize winners:
Now, therefore, we recommend: That world leaders reject the views expressed by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as well as popular, but misguided works such as “An Inconvenient Truth.”
The Heartland Institute invited several prominent members of the opposite camp, including Mr. Gore and James Hansen, the NASA climate expert. But they threw down a global-warming debate challenge only to Mr. Gore; a similar challenge was issued by Lord Monckton, a former Thatcher adviser. Even Mr. Gore’s old professors come under scrutiny like Dan Quayle’s never have.
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