The editor of Denmark’s largest newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, arranged an interview with Al Gore after he flew into the country to tell everyone to, erm, stop flying. Denmark, of course, has a local celebrity when it comes to rational discussion of global warming issues, which appears to have caused difficulties for the world’s greatest scientist:

The interview had been scheduled for months. Mr. Gore’s agent yesterday thought Gore-meets-Lomborg would be great. Yet an hour later, he came back to tell us that Bjorn Lomborg should be excluded from the interview because he’s been very critical of Mr. Gore’s message about global warming and has questioned Mr. Gore’s evenhandedness. According to the agent, Mr. Gore only wanted to have questions about his book and documentary, and only asked by a reporter. These conditions were immediately accepted by Jyllands-Posten. Yet an hour later we received an email from the agent saying that the interview was now cancelled. What happened?

Al Gore was simply playing to form. It is now over a year since the former Veep said he’d consider debating Steve Milloy of Junkscience.com on the issue.

The Jyllands-Posten editor concerned has the full story, complete with some inconvenient truths for Mr Gore. Of course, the definitive guide to Al Gore’s wanton disregard of the truth is written by my colleague, Marlo Lewis.