November 28, 2006 8:40AM # Global Warming Showdown By [Jerry Taylor](https://www.cato.org/people/jerry-taylor) --- SHARE The media is increasingly embracing the idea that anyone in the scientific community who doesn’t wet their bed over the prospect of future warming is some sort of (a) flat-earth know-nothing, or or (b) a cynical money grubber who allows oil and coal companies to buy their expertise despite knowing full well that doom is on the horizon. Well, today you can judge for yourself. At a [conference](http://www.westernroundtable.com/2007_Summit/2007agenda.asp) co-sponsored by the Western Business Roundtable and the Business Industry Political Action Committee (BIPAC), Cato senior fellow [Patrick J. Michaels](https://www.cato.org/people/michaels.html) (who, more relevantly, is a professor of environmental science at the University of Virginia and a member of the International Panel on Climate Change) will debate [Klaus Lackner](http://www.seas.columbia.edu/earth/lacknerCV.html), a professor of geophysics at the Earth Sciences center at Columbia University. The debate begins at 1:30 Mountain Standard Time and will be webcast live for all interested. If you count yourself among them, you can go sign up [here](http://www.westernroundtable.com/climate_change_debate.asp) to listen. ##### Related Tags [Energy and Environment](https://www.cato.org/research/energy-environment), [General](https://www.cato.org/general) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).