In case you missed it live, Christopher Monckton spent an entire hour on the Glenn Beck program today on the topic of global warming, skepticism, and the Copenhagen Treaty.
The video is now available.
Watch it below.
I think Lord Monckton did a splendid job.
To see the proposed Copenhagen Treaty, see this essay on the subject here.
Parts 1-7 of the hour long video are below. YouTube has time limits on clips, so it is broken up into parts 1-7.
Putting science aside, this Energy Bill is being sold as a solution to “Independence of Foreign Energy”. This “Energy Bill” is welfare for Wall Street. It will not make us less dependent on “foreign energy” but it will make us dependent on foreign Carbon Credits. How stupid is that?
>>>According to Lord Mockton 90% of Brittan’s laws are
>>>made by commisars who they dont elect and they dont
>>>hold to account! They are made in secret and the British
>>>Parliament is made to pass it. It has no option but to do so.
Yup. Laws are now made in Europe, not Westminster. Although Europe may hold elections, the European parliamentarians do not make they laws. They are made by the Council of Ministers, the ‘secret commissars’, and these laws are then handed to the parliamentarians to debate.
Europe is NOT democratic – there is no accountability. We cannot vote out a commissar.
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pwl (20:53:31)
See Professor Ian Plimer on ocean acidification.Rain+clay= an acid consuming process.We can’t have acid seas while plate techtonics are active and we don’t run out of rocks.
What’s needed next is a series of shows that critically examines each separate claim of the warmers, one episode per week (or fortnight, or month) by John Stossl of Fox. He’d do a bang-up job. Such a series is long overdue.
Why is it that every time I see Christopher Monckton I am reminded of Marty Feldman?
A modest price tag for income redistribution of 100 billion Euro (which is about 5 trillion US dollars these days 🙂 – JK):
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,26282852-11949,00.html
I am reminded of good ole Falco:
“der kommissar geht um”
For the nostalgic Eorutrash*:
* Hey! being half Dutch I am allowed to say this 😉
NilFormNYC (19:02:30)
“Heat cannot transfer from cold bodies to hot ones.” No, but cold bodies can act as insulating blankets towards heat loss from hot bodies! On and on it goes.
Please use common sense. Ask yourself, were in nature is water and water vapor a “positive feedback” to the source of “heat”?
‘No, but cold bodies can act as insulating blankets towards heat loss from hot bodies! On and on it goes.’
Do me a favor. This winter go outside wearing only a pair jeans and a t-shit and feel how fast your body cools down and then explain to me how “cold” acts as an insulator to “hot”. Take that one step further. Jump in the shower wearing your jeans and t-shirt then go outside. I’ll bet a dime to a doughnut that you will get “colder” “faster” as the “cold sucks the “heat” out of your wet body.
evanmjones (21:39:39) :
Hmm. CO2 persistence is an issue of much debate.
See this pic
Nice to see Monckton so relaxed.
This presentation is flawed simply by being on the Glenn Beck show. Obama’s henchmen? Please.
I am a global warming skeptic. I also believe that associating with Glenn Beck is a bad idea for credibility reasons.
Great stuff and Monkton is most eloquent, but what was his role with Mrs Thatcher and her promotion of the CO2
Sorry my machine was too eager to send the message before I had finished — more likely I hit teh wrong button.
My question is: what was Lord Monkton’s role as scientific adviser to Mrs Thatcher when she was so eager to be involved in the CO2 question?
Glenn (02:40:43) :
“Dutton believes that we could be seeing something known as an “informational cascade” — in crude terms, a herd instinct in which we don’t want to risk being seen as wrong, so we agree with what is widely taken as right.
This is so true. Just think of all of the people invested in “Al Gore is right.” Where do they go with this buffoon now? Saving face is a huge political motivation. Every time someone invested in “Al Gore is right” goes to the polls, they have to confront their own demons, and I bet most of them don’t have the nerve to admit they were so wrong, or wronged.
NikNYC and Manuel
By your words you demonstrate a complete lack of understanding of the issues. I could go on to say that the planet has warmed has cooled and all that but it would be a waste of time.
Yours sincerely
Stephen Richards BSc phyics, MSc physic MInst Ph MAPM etc
I always wondered how someone like Hitler came to power. Was anyone warninng the masses about his intentions? Did he take power little by little so as to not notice? I do know this, there were warning signs and no one paid attention.
Blueridge, some did pay attention. Now Churchill had a speech impediment. Most of his life he must have had to contend with the danger of simply being rubbished and sidelined. That worked right into his soul. Churchill learned to speak from a place of profound depth that was still warm, human, and familiar. I see Monckton doing something similar, hats off to him. In fact, I see something similar happening to a lot of us.
Bryn, Monckton may have been a warmist once, as many of us here were. But his role of detecting fraud in science (google him) may have meant that he was one of the first to realize that Thatcher’s stance was deceitful and could never hold up in the long run.
Bulldust (21:01:23) :
This piece just posted on the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corp) site echoes what I am trying to say:
http://blogs.abc.net.au/offair/2009/10/in-praise-of-the-sceptics.html
Thanks Bulldust, this is an excellent article, I am going to use “digital astrology” in AGW discussions from now on.
Al baby?, or an even better nickname… http://briefingroom.typepad.com/the_briefing_room/2009/11/gore-now-predicting-67-metre-sea-level-increase-in-ten-years.html
Bulldust (03:35:50) :
“der kommissar geht um”
Yeah, but whose liberty is being handled? 🙂 Good vid BTW, maybe there’s an “after the fire” of AGW reference here …
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I think you under estimate Glenn. From what I have seen watching his show, he does not put anything on the air that he has not spent a considerable amount of time getting a handle on.
That was an entertainer, creating a comfortable environment for his viewers (who in many cases had no clue what those charts meant). It allowed the average viewer to be comfortable that they did not understand them at a glance, and created a logical segue for Lord Monckton to elaborate on what they mean without being in lecture mode and tuning out his audience.
One of the reasons Glenn Beck is so popular, is that he has the ability to condense complex subjects down into simplified capsules of information that the average viewer can quickly grasp. He then tells them to go out and study the issue themselves. He reminds me of some of my Civics and History teachers in the 1960’s, he gives folks enough information to allow them to grasp the basic considerations and implications, without smothering them with detail. The interesting thing about his show, is he actively encourages his audience to do their own homework and learn about the topics on their own. He gives them permission to be active learners, rather than zombies that just accept at face value any pronouncement that comes down from on high from the MSM or the political spin doctors of all stripes.
A TV show is not an ideal situation for learning, you have to shrink topics into manageable bites of information, that reach across a huge range or educational and intellectual levels. He uses satirical humor, both to lighten the mood and to communicate ( which I note many of his opponents are oblivious to ), which as has been posted previously they tend to not have any sense of humor.
Larry
My Lord,
I am very impressed with the job you have undertaken. However, I do not think it is quite as simple as “30B tons raises concentratration 2ppm/year so 15B tons increases it only 1ppm/year.” That would seem to indicate that 0 tons would make the concentration level stable, and that, I believe, is not accurate.
Otherwise, excellent job.
Blueridge
despots/a> generally come into power because they are societally endorsed. But by the time the wheels are in motion, it’s usually too late. Humans are particularly good at following orders en mass but not good at mass resistance, unless it pertains to a hard-line radical group; which is still very much in line with following orders rather than advancing human kind. (relates to someones post on left/right earlier)
hhhmmmmm. still learning. ‘despots’ was supposed to be the hyperlink, not the entire post. can someone fix that?
>>Why is it that every time I see Christopher Monckton I am
>>reminded of Marty Feldman?
Hmmm – I’m not sure.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uD6E-GWb_RM/R-aT9hL6X_I/AAAAAAAABT4/1w9jiw3zDjU/s400/Marty+Feldman.jpg
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I am a big fan of Monckton.
Mainly because he is actually using the science to demostrate where the models and the theory are wrong.
It is one thing to say temperatures are not increasing, but we really have to also show where the theory went wrong and why it is not accurate.
A lot of scientists are convinced by it (and some are just along for the ride) but the global warming ship can only be righted with an alternative/a better explanation/an exploration of the actual facts.
That is one reason why I am doing the series on the paleoclimate. If the theory was correct, it should have been reflected in the history of the climate and it is not. We need to incorporate other factors.
Glenn Beck (I like the guy) has the good judgement to invite Monckton but his comments about the proposed reform of the healthcare system are hopelessly antiquated. Everybody is covered in Western Europe to a certain extent and the medical cost per capita considerably less than that in the current US system. Health care, like education, is a basic human right and has nothing to do with socialism as so many American seem to think.