Climate change: proposed personal briefing

A letter sent from: The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley

1 January 2010

His Excellency Mr. Kevin Rudd,

Prime Minister, Commonwealth of Australia.

Prime Minister,

Climate change: proposed personal briefing

Your speech on 6 November 2009 to the Lowy Institute, in which you publicly expressed some concern at my approach to the climate question, has prompted several leading Australian citizens to invite me come on tour to explain myself in a series of lectures in Australia later this month. I am writing to offer personal briefings on why “global warming” is a non-problem to you and other party leaders during my visit. For convenience, I am copying this letter to them, and to the Press.

Your speech mentioned my remarks about the proposal for world “government” in the early drafts of what had been intended as a binding Copenhagen Treaty. These proposals were not, as you suggested, a “conspiracy theory” from the “far right” with “zero basis in evidence”. Your staff will find them in paragraphs 36-38 of the main text of Annex 1 to the 15 September draft of the Treaty. The word “government” appears twice at paragraph 38. After much adverse publicity in democratic countries, including Australia, the proposals were reluctantly dropped before Copenhagen.

You say I am one of “those who argue that any multilateral action is by definition evil”. On the contrary: my first question is whether any action at all is required, to which – as I shall demonstrate – the objective economic and scientific answer is No. Even if multilateral action were required, which it is not, national governments in the West are by tradition democratically elected. Therefore, a fortiori, transnational or global governments should also be made and unmade by voters at the ballot-box. The climate ought not to be used as a shoddy pretext for international bureaucratic-centralist dictatorship. We committed Europeans have had more than enough of that already with the unelected but all-powerful Kommissars of the hated EU, who make nine-tenths of our laws by decree (revealingly, they call them “Directives” or “Commission Regulations”). The Kommissars (that is the official German word for them) inflict their dictates upon us regardless of what the elected European or any other democratic Parliament says or wishes. Do we want a worldwide EU? No.

You say I am one of “those who argue that climate change does not represent a global market failure”. Yet it is only recently that opinion sufficient to constitute a market signal became apparent in the documents of the IPCC, which is, however, a political rather than a scientific entity. There has scarcely been time for a “market failure”. Besides, corporations are falling over themselves to cash in on the giant financial fraud against the little guy that carbon taxation and trading have already become in the goody-two-shoes EU – and will become in Australia if you get your way.

You say I was one of “those who argue that somehow the market will magically solve the problem”. In fact I have never argued that, though in general the market is better at solving problems than the habitual but repeatedly-failed dirigisme of the etatistes predominant in the classe politique today.

The questions I address are a) whether there is a climate problem at all; and b) even if there is one, and even if per impossibile it is of the hilariously-overblown magnitude imagined by the IPCC, whether waiting and adapting as and if necessary is more cost-effective than attempting to mitigate the supposed problem by trying to reduce the carbon dioxide our industries and enterprises emit.

Let us pretend, solum ad argumentum, that a given proportionate increase in CO2 concentration causes the maximum warming imagined by the IPCC. The IPCC’s bureaucrats are careful not to derive a function that will convert changes in CO2 concentration directly to equilibrium changes in temperature. I shall do it for them.

We derive the necessary implicit function from the IPCC’s statement to the effect that equilibrium surface warming ΔT at CO2 doubling will be (3.26 ± ln 2) C°. Since the IPCC, in compliance with Beer’s Law, defines the radiative forcing effect of CO2 as logarithmic rather than linear, our implicit function can be derived at once. The coefficient is the predicted warming at CO2 doubling divided by the logarithm of 2, and the term (C/C0) is the proportionate increase in CO2 concentration. Thus,

ΔT = (4.7 ± 1) ln(C/C0)                           | Celsius degrees

We are looking at the IPCC’s maximum imagined warming rate, so we simply write –

ΔT = 5.7 ln(C/C0)                                      | Celsius degrees

Armed with this function telling us the maximum equilibrium warming that the IPCC predicts from any given change in CO2 concentration, we can now determine, robustly, the maximum equilibrium warming that is likely to be forestalled by any proposed cut in the current upward path of CO2 emissions. Let me demonstrate.

By the end of this month, according to the Copenhagen Accord, all parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change are due to report what cuts in emissions they will make by 2020. Broadly speaking, the Annex 1 parties, who will account for about half of global emissions over the period, will commit to reducing current emissions by 30% by 2020, or 15% on average in the decade between now and 2020.

Thus, if and only if every Annex 1 party to the Copenhagen Accord complies with its obligations to the full, today’s emissions will be reduced by around half of that 15%, namely 7.5%, compared with business as usual. If the trend of the past decade continues, with business as usual we shall add 2 ppmv/year, or 20 ppmv over the decade, to atmospheric CO2 concentration. Now, 7.5% of 20 ppmv is 1.5 ppmv.

We determine the warming forestalled over the coming decade by comparing the business-as-usual warming that would occur between now and 2020 if we made no cuts in CO2 emissions with the lesser warming that would follow full compliance with the Copenhagen Accord. Where today’s CO2 concentration is 388 ppmv –

Business as usual:                              ΔT = 5.7 ln(408.0/388) = 0.29  C°

–          Copenhagen Accord:           ΔT = 5.7 ln(406.5/388) =  0.27  C°

=          “Global warming” forestalled, 2010-2020: 0.02 C°

One-fiftieth of a Celsius degree of warming forestalled is all that complete, global compliance with the Copenhagen Accord for an entire decade would achieve. Yet the cost of achieving this result – an outcome so small that our instruments would not be able to measure it – would run into trillions of dollars. Do your Treasury models demonstrate that this calculation is in any way erroneous? If they do, junk them.

You say “formal global and national economic modelling” shows “that the costs of inaction are greater than the costs of acting”. You ask for my “equivalent evidence basis to Treasury modelling published by the Government of the industry and employment impacts of climate change”. I respond that the rigorous calculation that I have described, which your officials may verify for themselves, shows that whatever costs may be imagined to flow from anthropogenic “global warming” will scarcely be mitigated at all, even by trillions of dollars of expenditure over the coming decade.

Every economic analysis except that of the now-discredited Lord Stern, with its near-zero discount rate and its absurdly inflated warming rates, comes to the same ineluctable conclusion: adaptation to climate change, in whatever direction, as and if necessary, is orders of magnitude more cost-effective than attempts at mitigation. In a long career in policy analysis in and out of government, I have never seen so cost-ineffective a proposed waste of taxpayers’ money as the trillions which today’s scientifically-illiterate governments propose to spend on attempting – with all the plausibility of King Canute – to stop the tide from coming in.

Remember that I have done this calculation on the basis that everyone who should comply with the Copenhagen Accord actually does comply. Precedent does not look promising. The Kyoto Protocol, the Copenhagen Accord’s predecessor, has been in operation for more than a decade, and it was supposed to reduce global CO2 emissions by 2012. So far, after billions spent on global implementation of Kyoto, global CO2 emissions have risen compared with when Kyoto was first signed.

Remember too that we have assumed the maximum warming that the CO2 imagines might occur in response to a given proportionate increase in CO2 concentration. Yet even the IPCC’s central estimate of CO2’s warming effect, according to an increasing number of serious papers in the peer-reviewed literature, is a five-fold exaggeration. If those papers are right, after a further decade of incomplete compliance and billions squandered, warming forestalled may prove to be just a thousandth of a degree.

Now ask yourself this. Are you, personally, and your advisers, personally, and your administration’s officials, personally, willing to make the heroically pointless sacrifices that you so insouciantly demand of others in the name of Saving The Planet For Future Generations? I beg leave to think not. At Flag 1 I have attached what I have reason to believe is a generally accurate list of the names and titles of the delegation that you led to Copenhagen to bring back the non-result whose paltriness, pointlessness and futility we have now rigorously demonstrated. There are 114 names on the list. One hundred and fourteen. Enough to fill a mid-sized passenger jet. Half a dozen were all that was really necessary – and perhaps one from each State in Australia. If you and your officials are not willing to tighten your belts when a tempting foreign junket at taxpayers’ expense is in prospect, why, pray, should the taxpayers tighten theirs?

You say that climate-change “deniers” – nasty word, that, and you should really have known better than to use it – are “small in number but too dangerous to be ignored”, and “well resourced”. In fact, governments, taxpayer-funded organizations, taxpayer-funded teachers, and taxpayer-funded environmental groups have spent something like 50,000 times as much on “global warming” propaganda as their opponents have spent on debunking this new and cruel superstition. And that is before we take account of the relentless prejudice of the majority of the mainstream news media.

How, then, it is that we, the supposed minority who will not admit that the emperor of “global warming” is adequately clad, are somehow prevailing? How is it that we are convincing more and more of the population not to place any more trust in the “global warming” theory? The answer is that the “global warming” theory is not true, and no amount of bluster or braggadocio, ranting or rodomontade will make it true.

You say that our aim, in daring to oppose the transient fashion for apocalypticism, is “to erode just enough of the political will that action becomes impossible”. No. Our aim is simply to ensure that the truth is widely enough understood to prevent the squandering of precious resources on addressing the non-problem of anthropogenic “global warming”. The correct policy response to a non-problem is to have the courage to do nothing. No interventionist likes to do nothing. Nevertheless, the do-nothing option, scientifically and economically speaking, is the right option.

You say that I and others like me base our thinking on the notion that “the cost of not acting is nothing”. Well, after a decade and a half with no statistically-significant “global warming”, and after three decades in which the mean warming rate has been well below the ever-falling predictions of the UN’s climate panel, that notion has certainly not been disproven in reality.

However, the question I address is not that but this. Is the cost of taking action many times greater than the cost of not acting? The answer to this question is Yes.

Millions are already dying of starvation in the world’s poorest nations because world food prices have doubled in two years. That abrupt, vicious doubling was caused by a sharp drop in world food production, caused in turn by suddenly taking millions of acres of land out of growing food for people who need it, so as to grow biofuels for clunkers that don’t. The scientifically-illiterate, economically-innumerate policies that you advocate – however fashionable you may conceive them to be – are killing people by the million.

You say my logic “belongs in a casino, not a science lab”. Yet it is you who are gambling with poor people’s lives, and it is you – or, rather, they – who are losing: and losing not merely their substance but their very existence. The biofuel scam is born of the idiotic notion – a notion you uncritically espouse – that increasing by less than 1/2000 this century the proportion of the Earth’s atmosphere occupied by CO2 may prove catastrophic. At a time when so many of the world’s people are already short of food, the UN’s right-to-food rapporteur, Herr Ziegler, has roundly and rightly condemned the biofuel scam as nothing less than “a crime against humanity”.

The scale of the slaughter is monstrous, with food riots (largely unreported in the Western news media, and certainly not mentioned by you in your recent speech) in a dozen regions of the Third World over the past two years. Yet this cruel, unheeded slaughter is founded upon a lie: the claim by the IPCC that it is 90% certain that most of the “global warming” since 1950 is manmade. This claim – based not on science but on a show of hands among political representatives, with China wanting a lower figure and other nations wanting a higher figure – is demonstrably, self-servingly false. Peer-reviewed analyses of changes in cloud cover over recent decades – changes almost entirely unconnected with changes in CO2 concentration – show that it was this largely-natural reduction in cloud cover from 1983-2001 and a consequent increase in the amount of short-wave and UV solar radiation reaching the Earth that accounted for five times as much warming as CO2 could have caused.

Nor is the IPCC’s great lie the only lie. If you will allow me to brief you and your advisers, I will show you lie after lie after lie after lie in the official documents of the IPCC and in the speeches of its current chairman, who has made himself a multi-millionaire as a “global warming” profiteer.

However, if you will not make the time to hear me for half an hour before you commit your working people to the futile indignity of excessive taxation and pointless over-regulation without the slightest scientific or economic justification, and to outright confiscation of their farmland without compensation on the fatuous pretext that the land is a “carbon sink”, then I hope that you will at least nominate one of the scientists on your staff to address the two central issues that I have raised in this letter: namely, the egregious cost-ineffectiveness of attempting to mitigate “global warming” by emissions reduction, and the measured fact, well demonstrated in the scientific literature, that a largely-natural change in cloud cover in recent decades caused five times as much “global warming” as CO2. It is also a measured fact that, while those of the UN’s computer models that can be forced with an increase in sea-surface temperatures all predict a consequent fall in the flux of outgoing radiation at top of atmosphere, in observed reality there is an increase. In short, the radiation that is supposed to be trapped here in the troposphere to cause “global warming” is measured as escaping to space much as usual, so that it cannot be causing more than around one-fifth of the warming the IPCC predicts.

My list of the Copenhagen junketers from Australia’s governing class is attached. All those taxpayer dollars squandered, just to forestall 0.02 C° of “global warming” in ten years. Yet, in the past decade and a half, there has been no “global warming” at all. Can you not see that it would be kinder to your working people to wait another decade and see whether global temperatures even begin to respond as the IPCC has predicted? What is the worst that can happen if you wait? Just 0.02 C° of global warming that would not otherwise have occurred. It’s a no-brainer.

Yours faithfully,

VISCOUNT MONCKTON OF BRENCHLEY

THE RUDD GOVERNMENT’S COPENHAGEN JUNKET LIST

December 2009

The following 114 officials or representatives of the Australian Government and of State administrations attended the UN climate conference at Copenhagen in December 2009 –

1. Kevin Michael Rudd, Prime Minister

2. Penelope Wong, Minister, Clim. Chg. & Water

3. Louise Helen Hand, Ambassador for Clim. Chg.

4. David Fredericks, Dep. Chf. of Staff, Dept. of the Prime Minister

5. Philip Green Oam, Sen. Policy Advr., Foreign Affairs Dept.

6. Andrew Charlton, Sen. Advr., Prime Minister’s Dept.

7. Lachlan Harris, Sen. Press Sec., Prime Minister’s Office

8. Scott Dewar, Sen. Advr., Prime Minister’s Office

9. Clare Penrose, Advr., Prime Minister’s Office

10. Fiona Sugden, Media Advr., Prime Minister’s Office

11. Lisa French, Prime Minister’s Office12. Jeremy Hilman, Advr., Prime Minister’s Office

13. Tarah Barzanji, Advr., Prime Minister’s Office

14. Kate Shaw, Exec. Sec., Prime Minister’s Office

15. Gaile Barnes, Exec. Asst., Prime Minister’s Office

16. Gordon de Brouwer, Dep. Sec. Prime Minister’s Dept.

17. Patrick Suckling, 1st Asst. Sec., Intl. Div., Prime Minister’s Office\

18. Rebecca Christie, Prime Minister’s Office

19. Michael Jones, Official Photographer, Prime Minister & Cabinet

20. Stephan Rudzki

21. David Bell, Federal Agent, Aus. Federal Police

22. Kym Baillie, Aus. Federal Police

23. David Champion, Aus. Federal Police

24. Matt Jebb, Federal Agent Aus. Federal Police

25. Craig Kendall, Federal Agent, Aus. Federal Police

26. Squadron Leader Ian Lane, Staff Offr., VIP Operations

27. John Olenich, Media Advr., to Minister Wong, Office of Clim. Chg. & Water

28. Kristina Hickey, Advr. to Minister Wong, Office of Clim. Chg. & Water

29. Martin Parkinson, Sec., Dept. of Clim. Chg.

30. Howard Bamsey, Special Envoy for Clim. Chg., Dept. of Clim. Chg.

31. Robert Owen-Jones, Asst. Sec., Intl. Div., Dept. of Clim. Chg.

32. Clare Walsh Asst. Sec., Intl. Div., Dept. of Clim. Chg.

33. Jenny Elizabeth Wilkinson, Policy Advr., Dept. of Clim. Chg.

34. Elizabeth Peak, Princ. Legal Advr., Intl. Clim. Law, Dept. of Clim. Chg.

35. Kristin Tilley, Dir., Multilat. Negots., Intl. Div., Dept. of Clim. Chg.

36. Andrew Ure, Actg. Dir., Multilat. Negots., Intl. Div., Dept. of Clim. Chg.

37. Annemarie Watt, Dir., Land Sector Negots., Intl. Div., Dept. of Clim. Chg.

38. Kushla Munro, Dir., Intl. Forest Carbon Sectn. Intl. Div., Dept. of Clim. Chg.

39. Kathleen Annette Rowley, Dir., Strategic & Tech. Analysis, Dept. of Clim. Chg.

40. Anitra Cowan Asst. Dir., Multilat. Negots., Dept. of Clim. Chg.

41. Sally Truong, Asst. Dir., Multilat. Negots., Intl. Div. Dept. of Clim. Chg.

42. Jane Wilkinson, Asst. Dir., Dept. of Clim. Chg.

43. Tracey Mackay, Asst. Dir., Intl. Div., Dept. of Clim. Chg.

44. Laura Brown, Asst. Dir., Multilat. Negots., Intl. Div., Dept. of Clim. Chg.

45. Tracey-Anne Leahey, Delegation Mgr., Dept. of Clim. Chg.

46. Nicola Loffler, Sen. Legal Advr., Intl. Clim. Law, Dept. of Clim. Chg.

47. Tamara Curll, Legal Advr., Intl. Clim. Law, Dept. of Clim. Chg.

48. Jessica Allen, Legal Support Offr., Dept. of Clim. Chg.

49. Sanjiva de Silva, Legal Advr., Intl. Clim. Law, Dept. of Clim. Chg.

50. Gaia Puleston, Political Advr., Dept. of Clim. Chg.

51. Penelope Morton, Policy Advr., UNFCCC Negots., Intl. Div., Dept. of Clim. Chg.

52. Claire Elizabeth Watt, Policy Advr., Dept. of Clim. Chg.

53. Amanda Walker, Policy Offr., Multilat. Negots., Dept. of Clim. Chg.

54. Alan David Lee, Policy Advr., Land Sector Negots., Dept. of Clim. Chg.

55. Erika Kate Oord, Aus. Stakeholder Mgr., Dept. of Clim. Chg.

56. Jahda Kirian Swanborough, Comms. Mgr., Ministerial Comms., Dept. of Clim. Chg.

57. H.E. Sharyn Minahan, Ambassador, Dipl. Miss. of Aus. to DK

58. Julia Feeney, Dir., Clim. Chg. & Envir., Dept. of Foreign Affairs & Trade

59. Chester Geoffrey Cunningham, 2nd Sec., DFAT, Dipl. Miss. of Aus. to Germany

60. Rachael Cooper, Exec. Offr., Clim. Chg. & Envir., Dept. of Foreign Affairs & Trade

61. Rachael Grivas, Exec. Offr., Envir. Branch, Dept. of Foreign Affairs & Trade

62. Moya Collett, Desk Offr., Clim. Chg. & Envir. Sectn., Dept. of Foreign Affairs & Trade

63. Rob Law, Dept. of Foreign Affairs & Trade

64. Robin Davies, Asst. Dir. Gen., Sustainable Devel. Gp., Aus. Agency for Intl. Devel.

65. Deborah Fulton, Dir., Policy & Global Envir., Aus. Agency for Intl. Devel.

66. Katherine Vaughn, Policy Advr., Policy & Global Envir., Aus. Agency for Intl. Devel.

67. Brian Dawson, Policy Advr., Aus. Agency for Intl. Devel.

68. Andrew Leigh Clarke, Dep. Sec., Dept. of Res. Devel., Western Aus.

69. Bruce Wilson, Gen. Mgr., Envir. Energy & Envir. Div., Dept. of Resrc. Devel., W. Aus.

70. Jill McCarthy, Policy Advr., Dept. of Resrc., Energy & Tourism

71. Simon French, Policy Advr., Dept. of Agriculture, Fisheries & Forestry

72. Ian Michael Ruscoe, Policy Advr., Dept. of Agriculture, Fisheries & Forestry

73. David Walland, Acting Supt., Nat. Clim. Centre, Bureau of Meteorology

74. Damien Dunn Sen. Policy Advr., Aus. Treasury

75. Helen Hawka Fuhrman, Policy Offr., Renewable Energy Policy & Partnerships

76. Scott Vivian Davenport, Chf., Economics, NSW Dept. of Industry & Invest.

77. Graham Julian Levitt, Policy Mgr., Clim. Chg., NSW Dept. of Industry & Invest.

78. Kate Jennifer Jones, Minister, Clim. Chg. & Sustainability, Qld. Govt.

79. Michael William Dart, Princ. Policy Advr., Office of Kate Jones, MP, Qld. Govt.

80. Matthew Anthony Jamie Skoien, Sen. Dir., Office of Clim. Chg. Qld. Govt.

81. Michael David Rann, Premier, S. Aus. Dept. of Premier & Cabinet, S. Aus.

82. Suzanne Kay Harter, Advr., Dept. of Premier & Cabinet, S. Aus.

83. Paul David Flanagan, Mgr., Comms., Govt. of S. Aus.

84. Timothy O’Loughlin, Dep. Chf. Exec., Sust. & Wkfc. Mgmt., S. Aus. Dept. of Premier

85. Nyla Sarwar M.Sc, student, Linacre College, University of Oxford

86. Gavin Jennings, Minister, Envir. & Clim. Chg. & Innovation, Victorian Govt.

87. Sarah Broadbent, Sustainability Advr.

88. Rebecca Falkingham, Sen. Advr., Victoria Govt./Office of Clim. Chg.

89. Simon Camroux, Policy Advr., Energy Supply Ass. of Aus. Ltd.

90. Geoff Lake, Advr., Aus. Local Govt. Ass.

91. Sridhar Ayyalaraju, Post Visit Controller, Dipl. Miss. of Aus. to DK

92. Tegan Brink Dep. Visit Controller & Security Liaison Offr., Dipl. Miss. of Aus. to DK

93. Melissa Eu Suan Goh, Trspt. Liaison Offr. & Consul, Dipl. Miss. of Aus. to DK

94. Lauren Henschke, Support Staff, Dipl. Miss. of Aus. to DK

95. Maree Fay, Accommodation Liaison Offr., Dipl. Miss. of Aus. to DK

96. Patricia McKinnon, Comms. Offr., Dipl. Miss. of Aus. to DK

97. Eugene Olim, Passport/Baggage Liaison Offr., Dipl. Miss. of Aus. to DK

98. Belinda Lee Adams

99. Jacqui Ashworth, Media Liaison Offr., Dipl. Miss. of Aus. to DK

100. Patricia Smith, Media Liaison Offr., Dipl. Miss. of Aus. to DK

101. Martin Bo Jensen, Research & Public Dipl. Offr., Dipl. Miss. of Aus. to DK

102. Mauro Kolobaric, Consular Support, Dipl. Miss. of Aus. to DK

103. Susan Flanagan, Consular Support, Dipl. Miss. of Aus. to DK

104. Stephen Kanaridis, IT Support Offr., Dipl. Miss. of Aus. to DK

105. George Reid, Support Staff, Dipl. Miss. of Aus. to DK

106. Ashley Wright, Support Staff, Dipl. Miss. of Aus. to DK

107. Jodie Littlewood, Support Staff, Dipl. Miss. of Aus. to DK

108. Thomas Millhouse, Support Staff, Dipl. Miss. of Aus. to DK

109. Timothy Whittley, Support Staff Driver, Dipl. Miss. of Aus. to DK

110. Julia Thomson, Dipl. Miss. of Aus. to DK

111. Donald Frater, Chf. of Staff to Minister Wong Office of Clim. Chg. & Water

112. Jacqui Smith, Media Liaison, Dipl. Miss. of Aus. to DK

113. Greg French, Sen. Legal Advr. (Envir.), Dept. of Foreign Affairs & Trade

114. Jeremy Hillman, Advr., Prime Minister’s Office


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January 5, 2010 11:12 am

Now THAT was an intellectual beat down. When can Al Gore get his?

Pistol
January 5, 2010 4:05 pm

K.Rudd has no real power anyway.. He is just a puppet like the rest of them. The shadow government/NWO and all their luciferian plans needs to be fully exposed. The only thing that is going to prevent global genocide and an open occult socialist society is a well informed public…
Information is paramount. AGW, The Money Scam, False Flag Wars and the recent Swine Flu pandemic scam etc etc etc, all need to be exposed and NOW!, Before our hijacked governments erode our remaining civil liberties, freedom of speech and right to breathe air for free. They poison our water, food and medicines, sterilize and infect us with toxic vaccinations and lie compulsively about everything from history to current events.. Ahhhhhhh.. When does the next shuttle leave to get me off this rock???

January 5, 2010 4:52 pm

The Scams
#1
The UK/Euro lightbulb scam.
Dear Board of Directors,
We have 200 million dangerous lightbulbs that nobody will buy.
They are a serious biohazard and poisonous pollutant (mercury).
We can start an Environmental Cleanup Outfit for when a bulb is broken or expired. Another government contract. We could sub it to Rentokil. No limit to fees. It the environment. Its public health.
Since nobody wants this misconceived rubbish we have to force them to pay.
Here’s the plan.
We mail them to every home.
Then we use the government to extract our profits and costs by taxation, in the form of carbon offsets. Then we go to market and sell our carbon offsets. Win win win for us, woe woe woe for everyone who needs to use a lightbulb.
Signed:
Chairman of the Board.
Ruthless F. Bastard MBE
MORE SCAMS TO FOLLOW

January 5, 2010 5:27 pm

Dear Lord Monckton,
I have scoured the Australian newspapers since Jan 1, the date of publication of your article. I have found no mention of your response/challenge to Rudd’s speech at the Lowy Institute.
Frank Lowy, who owns Westfield, is a former Israeli commando and part owner of the twin towers. He is one of the boots on Rudd’s neck. Another is Rudd’s very wealthy wife. If Rudd had any decency he would by now be a squirming maggot. But he is a psychopath with no morality, like most of his kind. He has the power to starve science of funds unless the outcomes support his political agenda. And he does.
He is part of a plan to remove the sovreignty of this nation an all others. To deny any effect to our Constitution, thereby betraying our people and his office.
Ironic perhaps then that the finest champion of our human rights in Australia turns out to be a British Lord, low on rhetoric, high on facts.
On a practical note I would like to interview you for presentation on unseentv.com.au . This site contains entertainment, some risque, but no pornography, as well as current affairs. The MSM is likely to be stony ground.
I do hope you can find the time to come down here to speak, and have wondered if your tremendous work has tired you or sent you broke.
We are indebted to you mate,
John Doris

Keith Minto
January 5, 2010 7:32 pm

The Australian today published LM’s letter here.

Keith Minto
January 5, 2010 8:08 pm

Guy Dunphy (20:32:13) :
I know the Dunphy name well, and good luck with your letter, Guy. If you get a reply let us know, perhaps (knowing how long a reply may take) in the ‘notes and tips’ section.
Keith.

Deadman
January 5, 2010 8:44 pm

Keith Minto (19:32:14):
The Australian today published LM’s letter…
It’s an abridged version, of course.

Geoff Sherrington
January 6, 2010 12:31 am

Deadman (20:44:15) :
It is abridged because the average reporter at Australian newspapers was not the recipient of an advanced or even comprehensive education. Most reporters would have little hope of understanding the nuance. Should you doubt this, sample some Australian TV or radio news.
Those of us old enough and travelled enough to have been exposed to a wider section of global society find no problems with the manner of presentation of the Viscount, because we speak and act similarly.
Cogito ergo sum.
Thank you for you polite time in reading this.

Deadman
January 6, 2010 2:57 am

Geoff Sherrington (00:31:16):
Ego quoque relatores stulti et eloquentium verum scio intellegoque. (Telam-copulam meam videas.)
Di t’ament.

Deadman
January 6, 2010 3:00 am

Oops, stulti above should be stultos.

Charlie Munche
January 6, 2010 4:19 am

Despite the fawning love affair the commentators here express about Monckton, it is probably useful to point out that Monckton is creative with the truth, especially when it comes to his (ab)use of the IPCC data. http://rankexploits.com/musings/2009/moncktons-artful-graph/
Eliminating lines on graphs because they don’t fit in with his preconceived notions of denial do not make a very convincing argument. But, unfortunately, most commentators prefer the easy luxury of denial to the more disturbing reality of the need for radical changes to how we live.

RICK SHAW
January 6, 2010 2:48 pm

Correct me if I am wrong but isn’t the world constantly on the move possibly rotating on it’s axis ? thus creating a warmer climate in the south and a colder climate in the north, I read somewhere in the past year that Australia is moving north at about half a metre a year and with all those volcano’s spewing gas’s etc into the atmosphere who is responsible for controlling that ? are the countries with large industries going to be penalized greater than the poorer countries ?
No way just place a tax on the poor old John Citizen whilst the pollies increase their saleries year by year, My Lord you are on the right track I asume those with their snout in the trough will not take the time to read all correspondence in this e-mail.

Jay Crocker
January 6, 2010 2:52 pm

Thank god theres some sense from the Lord, we need more resistance worldwide to this disgusting fraud from ALL people with working brains. The people who believe the hype are brainwashed and deluded. What a shame most people just believe the telly news without using any reasoning or research into recent history or even common sense.

mark
January 6, 2010 3:41 pm

[This site pest is simple to ID. It is the banned Socrates/beckleybud spammer. ~mod.]

Alan Oz
January 8, 2010 12:37 am

Whether Mr Rudd choses to ignore the contents of this letter, and the invitation extended in it, or surprises by showing some courage for once, his taxing objectives will be greatly wounded either way. Straight A’s for content and presentation!
(PS: Whilst it is a minor side issue, I think it is unfair to label the entire Copenhagen entourage as “junketers”. I pity this poor tourist as his trip must have been bedlam looking after this long list of pretenders and trough feeders! As per original list that I saw:
“Eugene Olim, Paasport/Baggage Liaison Officer DFAT Diplomatic Mission of Australia to Denmark”
Interestingly, he was also the only one on that original list who didn’t warrant a “Mr” or “Ms” in front of his name and they couldn’t even spell his role title correctly. When he was finally finished each day with servicing the demands of the other 113, he probably had to stand out in the cold eating takeaway fish & chips while everyone else supped on in 5 and 6 star establishments!

Auscar1
January 8, 2010 3:42 am

Rudd’s ultimate political objective is to become Secretary General of UN. The actions he takes are those that score him brownie points towards that end with the internataional power brokers that may make his ambition a reality. The cost to the people of australia is just “collateral damage” to him as was the carnage he caused in Queensland politics in his push for his federal ambitions.
Current destructive policies aimed at UN ambitions are:
1; AGW and associated ETS,
2; soft approach to illegal immigrants,
3; millions of $ thrown at Aboriginal housing that creates international headlines with his name attached but does nothing to solve real problems.
Rudd is an extremely accomplished politician, sadly for Australia, a man of many words but little substance. He therefore will not take the risk of being seen to give Lord Monckton any credibility by meeting with him – unless he can work it in a way that discredits Monckton in a way that can be used by his army of spin doctors to further his own ends.

henrylow
January 9, 2010 12:35 am

The Center for Media Research has released a study by Vertical Response that shows just where many of these ‘Main Street’ players are going with their online dollars. The big winners: e-mail and social media. With only 3.8% of small business folks NOT planning on using e-mail marketing and with social media carrying the perception of being free (which they so rudely discover it is far from free) this should make some in the banner and search crowd a little wary.
http://www.onlineuniversalwork.com

azcIII
January 9, 2010 1:29 pm

Since the US is now disregarding the Constitution and electing non-citizens (arguable, I realize, but I’ve not seen Obama’s long-form BC that proves where he was born, the doctor who delivered him, etc.), can we have Lord Monckton for President next?
He has courage and common sense, rare in politicians these days.

James P
January 11, 2010 6:06 am

Now I know how Richard Dawkins feels when dealing with creationists…
Thank you, Lord M – I have now added ‘rotomontade’ to my vocabulary!

Jose A Veragio
January 13, 2010 10:46 am

anzon (11:28:39) :
“….the effect that equilibrium surface warming ΔT at CO2 doubling will be (3.26 ± ln 2) C°.”
I don’t understand what this actually means and cannot relate it to the calculations that follow. Does anyone else out there see the connection? If I (we?) can’t what hope does Mr Rudd have.

Don’t worry Anzon, Monckton knows exactly what he’s doing.
Mr. Rudd cann’t be expected to understand it, but will his advisers ?
The self styled, pseudo-scientific intelligesia are already ripping into it and setting themselves for a cred. shredding.

ANGRY
January 14, 2010 5:03 pm

FART:-
Fight Against Rudd’s Tyranny

Millstoneridge
January 14, 2010 6:06 pm

Lord Monckton,
Could you please let us know if you plan to stand for Parliament in Australia???
We need someone we can lead, certainly don’t have that at present… (does anyone know where Krudd is today??).
You are making an impact on this farce, the world needs peple like you, and our inspirational farmer Peter Spencer.
My only fear is that someone will conspire to do you harm to shut you up.
Be well, stay well and keep the message going.

Heathen
January 15, 2010 3:53 pm

Global Warming over the past 100 years. I think not. If anyone is interested go to the Bureau of Meterology site and look up temperatures and historical measuring sites. A quick glance ( and I have not done the stats on them yet) would indicate that there were very few measuring stations prior to 1950. Of the few that were around prior to this date, how in the name of god could they possibly be able to measure temperature variance not having the technology that we use today. One perfect example is the site at Sydney Airport. Established in 1939 and is still there. How can they possibly compare the temperature then and now after all the building, infrastructure and other reflective heat additives that are there now.
Cruddonomics me thinks. Surprising what you can do with statistics to fool the gullible.
Wake up Rudd we are not all foolsi

rogerthesurf
January 16, 2010 9:15 pm

Great Blog!
There might be global warming or cooling but the important issue is whether we, as a human race, can do anything about it.
There are a host of porkies and not very much truth barraging us everyday so its difficult to know what to believe.
I think I have simplified the issue in an entertaining way on my blog which includes discussion on the CO2 issue and climategate.
http://www.rogerfromnewzealand.wordpress.com
Please feel welcome to visit and leave a comment.
Cheers
Roger

i_love_lord_monkton
January 21, 2010 10:12 pm

I love Lord Monkton!
Go you good thing!
Such eloquence in your arguments.
Keep up the good work.