Ho-Hum, I couldn’t agree more with your comment that “This heavy weight dude is supposed to be one of the leading propagandists for the so called skeptics --- and yet his ‘argument’ such as it is, is a string of straw man arguments, emotive buzzwords, and the making assertions which are completely out of context. --- If this rant were submitted to any respectable academic journal it would be thrown in the rubbish bin.”

If it wasn’t so toxic in its presentation, it might rate as material for a novel – in the style of Gavin Menzies’ 1421 or, as I commented earlier, Erich Von Daniken’s Chariots of the Gods.

Depending on Monkton for support on a science-based issue seems a tad rash for the denialist camp.

At last! A contribution from Lord Monckton is well overdue. Of course he has the disadvantage of being a British Peer and, therefore, is lambasted here by the usual suspects just for that alone.

I'm sure that he is used to more intelligent critcism than has come from OLO posters and, if he bothered to read anything they wrote, he wouldn't blink an eyelid. Monckton, despite being a British nob, is a very intelligent man who has consistently and correctly opposed the man-made global warming scam and its proponents ever since the whole plot was hatched.

The little sqeaks from those who feel that they can rubbish such a man are pitiful.

Monckton is attempting to expose an immoral international wealth redistribution scam which is now co-ordinated by the IPCC. Many naive and well meaning individuals have been duped and consequently recruited along the way. Yet people starve, regimes continue to be corrupt but the UN strangely is obsessed with carbon and funding the proponents of a crazy theory.

The 'scam' was originally designed in the 1970's and began with an attempt to create a Global Cooling fear which was not successful. James Hansen, Scientist and Al Gore, self assigned unqualified climate expert, who both formerly touted Global Cooling due to man's emissions, suddenly switched to a what was to become a more successful campaign with Global Warming when the first campaign failed dismally.

It has never adequately been explained how a Scientist like James Hansen with all the data from the 19th century onwards could see a Global Cooling trend and then suddenly discover a Global Warming trend with the same data.

The UN is now co-ordinating the new enterprise with Rajendra Pachauri, railway engineer and economist, former board member of the Indian Oil company, now the Head of the IPCC and reportedly looking to make bug bucks from the venture.

Individuals and corporations have invested HUGE amounts of money in this idea and won't let it drop easily now matter how dodgey it is.

And you are going to pay for it - big time. If you doubt it is an industry in itself, check the following link.

http://www.carbon-financeonline.com/

I can just hear the chatter now between the AGW proponents attempting to explain away the severe cold weather in Europe. Global Cooling fell flat, Global Warming is slipping, what's next?

Will Rudd press forward with the ETS our eternal carbon tax to the UN? Probably, after all, he wants to graduate to the UN in his next life and is happy to do their bidding.

This is a warning. I've been reading this thread just now and have already deleted one post. I will be deleting more, so the thread may become a little disjointed. Flaming is outside the rules of the forum, and a number of posts above are flames. They are particularly discourteous as they involve the author. Anyone flames on this thread in the future, for whatever reason, and I will apply a suspension.

And in case you are wondering, no I have not received a complaint from this author. I have however received complaints from a number of authors in the last few days. If you want good quality contributions to this site from a variety of points of view, then you have to show some respect to the authors, no matter how strongly you disagree with their views.

Unfortunately this thread started off on the wrong foot and has been hopping along on it ever since. Feel free to disagree with specific points, but don't play the man.

Graham

Well done Lord Monkton, about time someone turned the bleeding heart tables on the green hypocrites; and you managed to get climate alarmists accusing a climate sceptic of “viciously emotive language, irrelevant hyperbole and hysteria”! Which is a bit like Bernie Madoff accusing Martha Stewart of being a swindler.

Monckton also believes that everyone in Britain should be compulsorily screened for HIV every two months, and those with the virus should be imprisoned for life: http://mediamattersaction.org/blog/200912110006

Regular readers of OLO will know that criticism of conservative commentators is more heavily moderated - not to say censored - than that of liberal contributors, so decide for yourselves if airing Monckton's views on infectious disease is "playing the man", or an indication of his nuanced and informed approach to crises.

Because of the embarrassing scientific deficit of the inactivist argument, they need their loudest voices to be able to scream without opposition, just in case reason and evidence get in the way.