Original sentence: ", on the "for" side where Richard Lindzen, Philip Stott, Michael Crichton, and on the "against" side Gavin Schmidt, Brenda Ekwurzel, Richard C.On March 15th, 2007 a two sided debate sponsored by Intelligence Squared was held in New York City, with the proposition "Global warming is not a crisis.Polls conducted at the beginning of the debate had shown that 30% of the audience agreed with the motion "Global warming is not a crisis" and 57% disagreed, but after the nearly two hours of being presented arguments by both sides that number flipped to 46% agreed and 42% disagreed.Somerville in front of an live audience
Edited sentence: On March 15th, 2007 a two sided debate sponsored by Intelligence Squared was held in New York City between anthropogenic global warming skeptics Richard Lindzen, Philip Stott, Michael Crichton, and theory supporters Gavin Schmidt, Brenda Ekwurzel, Richard C.Polls conducted before the debate had shown 57.3% to 29.9% of the audience walked in predisposed toward believing that "man had created a climate crisis", but after the nearly two hours of being presented arguments by both sides that number flipped to 46.2% to 42.2%, in favor of the skeptics.Somerville in front of an audience of hundreds of people