It’s rare for proponents of global warming alarmism to submit to a public debate on the topic, so the John Locke Foundation was happy to help bring a noted alarmist scientist, William Schlesinger, together with a skeptical climatologist, John Christy, on the same stage Wednesday in Hickory. Both the Hickory Daily Record (in a short story and this editorial) and Charlotte Observer promoted the event. WBT Radio’s Tara Servatius hosted the debaters for an hour Wednesday in her Charlotte studio before they headed north for the debate. The Hickory Daily Record covered the debate itself, noting that attendees tended to side with Christy in believing that global warming’s threats are overhyped. John Locke Foundation Vice President for Research and Resident Scholar Roy Cordato helped spread the word about the debate on the MasterResource free-market energy blog, while Climate Strategies Watch Director Paul Chesser promoted the event on the American Spectator blog. Chesser’s work prompted this response from an Iowa legislator: “An excellent debate.  I just finished it and plan to send it to others at Iowa State where we have been having a series of lectures on energy. I tried to get them to include the topic of Climate Change – Global warming on the list, but they were afraid of it. Don’t want to challenge the consensus, you know! Christy does a great job, and in my book he shot Schlesinger down in spades.” Chesser continued his own work this week bursting global warming myths; his latest American Spectator column offered an update on the continuing shenanigans linked to an alarmist consulting group, the Center for Climate Strategies.