Leading climate change experts have thrown their weight behind two scientists who hit out at the "Hollywoodisation" of global warming.

Professors Paul Hardaker and Chris Collier, both Royal Meteorological Society figures, criticised fellow scientists they accuse of "overplaying" the message.

The pair spoke at a conference in Oxford today entitled Making Sense of Weather and Climate and organised by Sense about Science, a scientific trust set up to help dispel the myths surrounding polemic issues such as climate change.
In the mean time, another challenge has been made to Al Gore to debate Global Warming, with the question:

That our effect on climate is not dangerous
by The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, former policy adviser to Margaret Thatcher

Anyone want to bet me that Gore refuses to debate this? I've heard he's already been challenged to debates on similar subjects and refuses to debate them.

I wonder why. (nuts)