Lord Monckton, a former policy adviser to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has issued a challenge to Al Gore to debate the issue of global warming before an international audience.

Monckton has claimed that  "A careful study of the substantial corpus of peer-reviewed science reveals that Mr. Gore's film, An Inconvenient Truth, is a foofaraw of pseudo-science, exaggerations, and errors, now being peddled to innocent schoolchildren worldwide."

Monckton has called upon Gore to, "step up to the plate and defend his advocacy of policies that could do grave harm to the welfare of the world's poor. If Mr. Gore really believes global warming is the defining issue of our time, the greatest threat human civilization has ever faced, then he should welcome the opportunity to raise the profile of the issue before a worldwide audience of billions by defining and defending his claims against a serious, science-based challenge."

A debate with Lord Monckton would help expose this sham, which is why Gore is likely to decline the invitation.