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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Lord Monckton is well known and thus attractive target.
But why someone would, a minnow like myself, consider to be a danger to science.
Recently I put on line this:
http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net/LFC-B.htm
A well known scientist responded with this eloquent rebuttal:
“Rarely have I seen such a blatant display of scientific dishonesty (perhaps hoping that nobody would notice), but I guess that the end justifies the means in your case.”
I can only say “ ?! ”
andrew adams says: August 12, 2010 at 10:20 am
No, his graphs are attacked because he claims that they are based on data from the IPCC when in fact they are not.
I’m new to this attack on him. From what I’ve seen of his presentations, he does indeed pull graphics directly from IPCC reports. Do you have an examples of where this is not so, or where he is incorrectly claiming to use IPCC data?
We have many fine spokesmen on the side of realism; Anthony Watts, Christopher Horner, Patrick Michaels, Roy Spencer, John Christy, Richard Lindzen, Fred Singer, etc. Lord Monckton is unique. He is an eloquent, gifted orator. He can very effectively communicate complex issues to the masses. This is why he is perceived as a threat by those who wish to perpetuate the fraud that is AGW. Monckton is our most effective spokesman when it comes to exposing the absurdity and fraud of AGW.
They are truly afraid of Lord Monckton. He has an ability to lead and carries himself with nobility.
Absolutely terrifying to those who practice the art of half-truths and word twisting.
If the UK doesn’t want him, please send him over here.
The US could really use a natural-born leader with his wits about him.
I am certainly no Lord Monckton, but I do what I can.
On Thursday August 5, 2010, I was an invited presenter in San Diego, California, where another speaker took the pro-AB 32 position and I took the opposite. AB 32 is California’s version of Cap-and-Trade and GHG reduction by government decree. The meeting was at the North County Economic Development Council, Public Policy Steering Committee. (North County refers to a portion of San Diego County)
I was able to speak second at that forum, and I’m happy to report that the final vote of the Committee was 5-1 against AB 32. The pro-AB 32 speaker gave the familiar litany of issues, highly distorted some facts, and with blatant falsehoods thrown in.
I stuck to the facts, many of which are here at WUWT, and some from my own blog.
It was actually a lot of fun.
I have another such speech with a different pro-AB 32 speaker, then I will take the anti-AB 32 position, scheduled in September in Anaheim, California.
“first they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.”
How true. Well, they have definitely *moved on* to the fight segment.
Thank godness they no longer sound nor act like scientists.
Every court has its jester and the only problem I would have with Lord Monckton is taking him seriously.
a man of decency,integrity & honour
OT looking very very sad for AGW these days
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icecover.uk.php
If NH ice continues like this, the AGW crowd will have to concede virtual complete defeat this year. They have been wrong wrong wrong all along LOL
Robert says:
I would love to see monckton enter a pre-prepared with someone like john cook. Boohooing at real climate is one thing but going up against the plethora of scientific evidence shown at skeptical science is another thing.
I totally agree. Let’s have a real debate between John Cook and Lord Monckton in a neutral venue with a mutually agreeable debate Moderator. If Cook accepts, I promise not to hold his high school diploma against him. ☺
andrew adams says:
August 12, 2010 at 10:20 am
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.
No, his graphs are attacked because he claims that they are based on data from the IPCC when in fact they are not.
———-Reply:
So Andrew, are you having a bad day or do you actually have a specific example? Please, share with all. (Of course, if the IPCC’s data is spurious or false, citing or using such isn’t the right think to do.)
andrew adams …
Can you point us ito the charts and graphs which Monckton claims are from IPCC data which in fact are not?
It’s always good to learn and if Monckton is trying to pull the wool over my eyes I sure would like to see the proof.
And I do mean “proof”, andrew. OK?
Monckton is a charlatan and a fraud. Watts Up has thrown its credibility to the wind defending this bum.
You dont have to be a raving warmist to see he fabricates evidence.
http://rankexploits.com/musings/2009/moncktons-artful-graph/
His title may come from ancient traditions of the kind any nation could cherish, as surely as we on our side of the pond should cherish the rights and Constitutions that bind us. Takes reminding ourselves that this man may carry a title, but people made of what Christopher Monckton is will stand head and shoulders above the horde. Makes one grateful Messers. McIntyre, McKitrick, Watts, Eschenbach, Montford Plimer and Dr. (What a Lady she is) Curry (as well as a great many others who help us to shaping our understanding) with such integrity, bravery and endurance.
Thanks WUWT and all of the above for the wonderful alternatives to the the media-embargoed truth that the hateful and hostile robber barons of the climat-modelling world are selling.
The RealClimate crowd have long hurled insults at Monkton, and the comments usually degenerate into infantile, Climategate-like prose!
Here’s a recent article:
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2010/08/monckton-makes-it-up/
From the loud squeals emanating from that direction, I’d say that Monkton is particularly effective and having a real impact on public opinion. Good.
Monckton ain’t exactly a poster boy for tolerance and civility, either.
He calls himself a Tory, yet dashes off to the UKIP whenever convenient.
He fabricates a position for himself in the House of Lords which he never held.
He proposed placing people with HIV in detention camps.
And I am rather aghast that Americans who call themselves conservatives flock to the banner of someone who flouts his title of nobility.
There are far better skeptics out there.
The reason Monckton is so hated by the far left is that he is a former policy adviser to Margaret Thatcher (British prime minister from 1979 to 1990, ally and buddy of Ronald Reagan, hammer of the Soviets). In this respect Monckton is the exact mirror of his chief foes (who are the policy advisers, not the scientists or politicians that we see – these are just front men). Monckton understands far too much about the political aspects of the CAGW movement for the comfort of its leaders. The rest is just standard leftist hate tactics.
For the benefit of North American readers, Margaret Thatcher is as hated by the far left in Britain as George W Bush in the USA. Perhaps more so.
Long live Lord Monckton! The more the warmists resort to shrill ad hominem, the more people realize that they don’t have a leg to stand on. Monckton is thorough, prepared, logical, analytical, and methodically tears down each and every argument rationally. He’ll shred anyone they throw at him and they know it.
There were no comments when I started my first one but having read them after submitting my comment. I must add that Monckton also seems to increase the readers’ penchant to think and articulate with extreme precision and a great deal of linguistic beauty here.
Two first digits of the hand, composed of two phalanges and attached to such a mobile metacarpus, up!
andrew adams says:
August 12, 2010 at 10:20 am
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.
No, his graphs are attacked because he claims that they are based on data from the IPCC when in fact they are not.
you have the platform, Prove IT ! OR shut up!!!
“And I am rather aghast that Americans who call themselves conservatives flock to the banner of someone who flouts his title of nobility.”
The word is “flaunt”, John. Get it right.
And I don’t remember him saying he has a right to a seat in the House of Lords.
The question really is “is he right?” and the ad homs he attracts suggest he probably is.
Monckton is a “target” because he has been caught making numerous false claims regarding Climate Science. He is to AGW skepticism what Al Gore is to AGW alarmism.
Assassination of character is a far too common way of winning arguments now. If the opposing side can succeed in making people think a person or group is evil, it doesn’t matter what he or she or that group says. Why do you think there are so many attack ads during campaign time? Don’t vote for that guy, he is evil! Assassination of character is effective, which is why it is used so often.
Philip says:
August 12, 2010 at 9:23 am
“Well said, Anthony. ”
As I mentioned on the “Our Climate” thread yesterday, one has to pay attention to who wrote and who posted what. On this one I believe Anthony only wrote the 3 lines at the very top.
Ah, wait until Lord Monckton reminds us all that the point of the whole debate is the well-being of Life on Earth, particularly people. We’ll really have fun then, for that science is even more overwhelmingly on our side!