This is a press release from CFACT sent to me. Post your Kicks or Kudos here, your choice, but play nice and be mindful of blog policy as moderators are standing by to snip your call. – Anthony
Target: Monckton
Have you noticed the kicking around that CFACT Advisor Lord Christopher Monckton’s been getting lately?
Add to the title “Viscount of Brenchley,” “whipping boy du jour.” Seldom a recent day goes by without some new name calling or conspiracy theory attacking Lord Monckton echoing through the left-wing blogosphere.
Why is Chris Monckton the victim of a global warming attack campaign? Effectiveness. Few have been so brilliantly effective at debunking the global warming scare as this compellingly articulate British Lord.
Lord Monckton does his homework. He scours the scientific literature. He devours every word and graph. He is in constant contact with a vast network of leading scientists throughout the world. He wades past the executive summaries and masters the details. He checks the math, checks the logic, and checks the consistency of what is claimed about our climate. He synthesizes global warming science and policy raising vital questions that provoke thought in the mind of any expert or layman with an open mind.
Despite the nearly unimaginable sums available to the global warming folks – despite their command of the media, the politicians in their thrall and the carbon profiteers lining up at the taxpayer’s trough, Lord Monckton and his allies are winning. Like the child who revealed that the Emperor had no clothes, Lord Monckton wakes the good sense of those who hear him. The public has caught on.
The warming propaganda machine has lost its momentum and is desperate to get it back. They want to silence Lord Monckton and remove him from the field. To that end they’ll say anything. They attack his title hoping we won’t notice that every British Viscount has a right and by long tradition is called “Lord.” They attack his graphs and charts, hoping we won’t bother to learn that most of his data comes straight from the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the sources it cites. Lord Monckton had hoped that by using the IPCC’s data warming advocates would be forced to debate the merits. Sadly, they continue to alternate between mocking the data and restating their conclusions as received wisdom. Yet when granted a fair forum for debate, it is Monckton who triumphs. Just weeks ago his team of experts were voted the winners in a warming debate at the Oxford Union – a treasured haven of free thought.
Last year Lord Monckton gave a presentation on global warming in St. Paul Minnesota that became a sensation on YouTube. This inspired Prof. John Abraham of the University of St. Thomas to attack his presentation in a lengthy video. Lord Monckton has refuted Prof. Abraham using his own medium. The first of a series of videos setting the record straight are being released today and we invite you to view them.
As CFACT has said before, the chain of logic behind global warming claims does not hold up. Lord Christopher Monckton will neither be silenced, nor ignored. As Mahatma Gandhi told us, “first they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.”
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He’s intelligent, knowledgeable, articulate, and tenacious. Ergo he’s a great to the Orthodoxy and must be attacked. All we’re seeing is the current rendition of the Two Minute Hate, with Monckton standing in for Goldstein.
Er, he’s a threat…maybe I meant great threat (and I need a new keyboard obviously as well as a better proofreader).
“first they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.”
I like that quote! I think I am going to have to use it.
Trump “The Donald”, says bad publicity is better than no publicity.
Too bad the arguments are emotional and he refutes them with facts.
Is the break up ice Denyberg floating south?
His name is turning into a useful shortcut – I can decide quite quickly who’s worth paying attention to and who’s worth ignoring completely just based on their reaction to him.
Those who chose not to engage his ideas seriously deserve the favor returned.
Well said, Anthony. Monckton is articulate, accurate and tireless. Long may he be a thorn in the side of the green propaganda machine. Victory cannot come too soon.
As a Brit, I’m proud of our tradition of free speech. Whatever your views of Monckton, at least he is open to debate; he will respond to emails, he will even stop in the street to talk to people throwing insults at him. I don’t know if he is right or wrong, but he deserves room to talk and I’m pleased we have people such as him standing up to be counted.
It will only ever be to the detriment of AGW-ers that they attack him personally.
Try sending emails to Lord Monckton and the Goreacle. See which sends you back a personal response. Lord Monckton makes my “Good Guy” list.
Well, I for one would love to see a properly moderated debate on national TV between Chris Monckton and anyone the AGW camp would care to put up… Gavin S maybe?
Would he/they dare?
I somehow doubt it.
BTW – has a transcript been made of the recent Grauniad sponsored debate which Steve McIntyre attended? I have not been able to download the audio file when it was up so still don’t know the details.
Long may he continue. He is haunting the AGW movement with common sense and logical reasoning. The shriller, nastier and more ad-hominem his attackers become, the more apparent it is that they are trying to drown out what must be most obvious in their own minds – that they have bought into a cult of belief far removed from science and reality, so full of confirmation bias and contradiction that the only way to maintain its momentum is to constantly stoke it with fear and hyperbole. They might not even be entirely wrong, but by now they are too far lost in hubris to find out either way..
– a ‘climate cynic’.
I love Monckton. Really excellent!
So often I am ashamed of being British, our politicians, media and “scientists” are so often second rate. It is good to have someone to be proud of.
I like your Gandhi quote, exactly right
Monckton’s refutation of Abraham was epic and spot on. From Abraham’s mischaracterizations to his strawman attacks, he(Abraham) was exposed as intellectually fraudulent at almost every thought he attempted to express. Monckton’s refutation is a thing of beauty. I wish him well in his future endeavors and look forward to hearing more from him in the near future.
Love the quote “first they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.”
Let’s hope it holds true.
I think a crosshairs on Monckton picture should not be used.
AGW fanatics have enough bad ideas … like sending us off to live on icefloes.
http://www.thefoxnation.com/business/2010/08/09/congressman-global-warming-deniers-should-start-their-own-country
What’s going on with the sound?
Lord Monckton is an inspiration and an excellent example to us all. He takes the brickbats and insults thrown at him with good grace and fine manners. Assuredly, we non-believers in AGW will see the overthrow of pseudo-science, until the next Soros onslaught. However, CCX is in dire straits and should Soros try to bolster its chances, do not remind him that bad money drives out good*. With any luck, he’ll bankrupt himself
*Sir Thomas Gresham
Cometh the hour cometh the man!
We are blessed that people of good faith are stepping up to the plate and taking the battle to the enemies of logic and freedom and common sense, the vested interests and the big money gang.
Men like Inhoffe and monckton are rare beasts indeed, they stand up when many others shrink away in fear, you cannot blame those who stay silent for fear of the revenge of the AGW mob because only a few have the courage to stand up and fight.
We will win in the end, in fact the end comes closer with every month that passes, they know it and we know it. All the money in the world and all the power is meaningless in the face of truth.
Dr. Abraham should know that you catch more flies with honey. Lord Monkton will dissect his claims and arguments with such a calm demeanor and a gentle smile that it will undoubtedly have him wondering why there is nary a husk from his strawmen left behind. Sadly, for the warmists, it is a case of two steps back once again.
Leftists are very vicious in their personal attacks and even more scandalous is the way they rewrite history and science to fit their worldview and then coordinate themselves to spread their ideas to young, gullible people or other envious power hungry people as themselves. I know this because I was one of them and knew every trick in the book, I just didn’t see it as a bad thing at the time. It’s basically a cult and you have to feel sickened by its frequent failures, selfishness and ignorance to free yourself from it.
If historians finally record an unbiased record of the struggle between the hoardes of politically-correct acolytes of CAGW and ruthlessly objective science, surely Lord Monckton’s name will stand high on the list of heros.
IMO one sentence from thread start best summarizes his contribution:
”Like the child who revealed that the Emperor had no clothes, Lord Monckton wakes the good sense of those who hear him.”
Exactly.
Pretty much everything Lord Monckton writes is worth a ”SAVE-local”. . . .
A well known phrase from the English TV comedy series “Dad’s Army” – “They don’t like it up them!!” (For those not familiar, this is referring to a fixed bayonet…)
I think James Delingpole (a skeptical blogger on the UK Daily Telegraph) is on BBC Radio’s “Any Questions” on Friday. If that’s the case he’ll follow Dominic Lawson who is Lord Monckton’s son in law (I think) and son of Lord Lawson a well known skeptic and ex-chancellor of the Exchequer (Finance Minister).
Perhaps the BBC is relaxing a bit, maybe Lord Monckton himself is due an appearance on “Question Time” or “Any Questions” ? We can but hope
I am confident he is honored by the attacks. The more the better. It’s the ultimate proof of is success and free publicity for our case just like the negative press of “Our Climate” creates a sales boost.
Lovely quote; “But why should you want to watch one person throwing dead cats at another..” @3:56
Indeed; and the weather was once thought such a safe (but dull) topic of conversation.