I wonder if the “Climate Science Rapid Response Team” is going?
From PR Newswire Available for Radio and All Media
CANCUN, Mexico, Nov. 24, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — CFACT, the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, will feature two prominent experts on climate science and policy at COP 16, the UN conference on climate change which convenes next week in Cancun.
Lord Christopher Monckton will be in Cancun December 1 – 10.
Dr. Roy Spencer will be in Cancun December 6 – 10.
Both will be available (allowing for travel) before and after Cancun.
Last year COP 15 in Copenhagen ended without serious progress on a successor treaty to the Kyoto protocol. A series of meetings in Germany and China were likewise inconclusive. The UNFCCC is under severe pressure to jump start the treaty process in Mexico, however, public doubts about climate science and policy coupled with an inability of developed and developing nations to find common ground leave the UNFCCC with a daunting task ahead.
With billions at stake for carbon traders (whose markets expire with the Kyoto protocol), warming science and policy campaigners, developing nations and subsidized industries in Cancun, the push for a new treaty will be fierce. The treaty proposals being circulated impose crippling costs and regulations that will choke off economic recovery while doing nothing to alter the climate. CFACT, Dr. Spencer and Lord Monckton will open minds and effectively challenge a scientific “consensus” that never was, detail global warming’s scope, causes and effects, separate smart energy strategies from waste and skewer the global warming lobby’s propaganda and abusive tactics.
Dr. Roy W. Spencer is a Principal Research Scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He was formerly a Senior Scientist for Climate Studies at NASA. He is co-developer of the original satellite method for precise monitoring of global temperatures from Earth-orbiting satellites. He has provided congressional testimony several times on the subject of global warming. He recently wrote, The Great Global Warming Blunder: How Mother Nature Fooled the World’s Top Climate Scientist. In 2008 he wrote The New York Times bestseller, Climate Confusion.
Lord Christopher Monckton, Third Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, has been a leader of CFACT’s delegations to numerous UN summits. He has held positions with the British press and in government, as a press officer at the Conservative Central Office and as Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s policy advisor. Monckton advised Thatcher on technical issues such as warship hydrodynamics, psephological modeling; embryological research, hydrogeology, public-service investment analysis, public welfare modeling, and epidemiological analysis. He is author of a detailed analysis and summary of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changes’ Fourth Assessment Report.
SOURCE Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow
h/t to R. de Haan
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Gaia Girl – Since you have a Hansen speech on your site , you might enjoy this :
http://www.mastreresource.org/category/hansen/james
This time, agreed with David Ball, and Monckton is doing that job.
‘One of the hottest years on record’..?
I know ‘weather ain’t climate’ – but we’re freezing our b*ll*cks off her in the UK at the moment…
Sorry , that would be :
http://www.masteresource.org/category/hansen-james/
David Ball says:
November 27, 2010 at 2:03 pm
Post-normal science be damned.
I would call it ‘ neo-Stalinist ‘.
More power to Dr. Spencer and Lord Monckton. Of course, they are attempting to convert a crowd that either has a vested financial, personal, and/or political interest in AGW being true or are too fanatical and/or too committed to the cause to believe anything that contradict their belief.
I always thought the best way to strike a blow to Big Environment is to buy an advertisement on TV. If I had the money, I would buy an ad during the Super Bowl. But it couldn’t be a year when the GE subsidiary NBC has the Super Bowl because GE has a financial interest in AGW being true. I would buy a Super Bowl ad that would start off with words “You were lied to” and end with the words “Research is the worst nightmare of environmentalists.” An ad so dramatic in an event where people watch the commercials instead of the program itself would send Big Environment crying and on the biggest damage control they could muster.
This upcoming UN Cancun conference is not about saving the world from global warming, it’s about getting our wealth and technology as well as part of our sovereignty.
It’s great Dr. Spencer and Lord Monckton will be in Cancum.
But I join prior commentor in saying that top of my list for another person of ”gravitas” to represent objective science at this cirucs would be Dr. Lindzen.
Thanks TomRude. I truly meant no disrespect. A house divided and all that. Cheers.
” but we’re freezing our b*ll*cks off her in the UK at the moment”…… The typo makes this a giggler. Like Homer’s postcard to Marge; “Wish You Were Her”.
Dr A Burns says:
November 27, 2010 at 12:41 pm
“Surely at AGW scammers won’t allow Monkton and Spencer to speak openly at the conference ?”
There are only 20 heads of state bothering to show up. So pallbearers for the AGW casket appear to be in short supply.
Great news!
Monckton brings his very quotable command of facts, as well as his delightfully British knack for skewering the pompous (who remain largely unaware they’ve been skewered)
Roy Spencer is also a good communicator, but his real value at Cancun is that he brings the one truly novel idea to the table. That is, the climate-alarm boys have mixed up cause and effect (forcing and feedback), specifically regarding clouds. The world warms when clouds are few, NOT clouds are few wien the world warms. “Climate Blunder” is a marvelous, very readable description and discussion of that concept.
Monckton/Spencer will of course be “outside the tent” at Cancun, so the challenge is to sway a few reporters and at least make the event uncomfortable for the Kool-Aid guzzlers inside.
Just to show nature has a sense of humour it will be snowing heavily across most of Europe this week, the earliest snow we’ve had for five years. Added to that the low, low temperatures makes belief in AGW a bit harder to stomach for most folk. But then the Met Office and the BBC just can’t seem to help themselves. Science will out, maybe not at Cancun but eventually it will have its day…
I like an can respect Lord Monckton, he’s a likable character, honest, even about his mistakes, and he knows to get the math right and the political game but with a nice touch of satire to it.
Me, I just call ’em hippies until their ears starts to bleed whereupon they tend to start running around in circles screaming gibberish on top of their lungs, which is about when I point my finger at ’em at laugh myself silly at the same time exclaiming I frakking knew it! You hippies are just out to get the real doctors to prescribe you cheap psychotropic drugs.
“The decisions of this governing board would be binding and impact on all the nations of the world.”
This is a good reason to oppose Obama and Putin’s current nuclear weapons reduction effort. We may need them to guard our sovereignty. I kind of realize why the Iranians think they need them, too, after reading this.
Max Hugoson says:
November 27, 2010 at 1:43 pm
> [Edison] Telephone (Yes, I said that…read about it, Edison made the first PRACTICAL microphone and earpiece),
Edison & co. invented the carbon microphone. His attempts at an earpiece didn’t improve on Bell’s earpiece, which is still in use and is basically a small loudspeaker. Bell used the same thing for the microphone. It works, but the carbon microphone had a much stronger output.
It’s been a bad few decades for Edison. First the CD displaced LP records, then the breakup of Ma Bell spawned innovation that left the carbon mike behind, now politicians are forcing the replacement of incandescent lightbulbs. At least they still use the Edison base in CFL replacement lamps, but its days may be numbered. His Portland cement manufacturing techniques are still in use, CO2 intensive though they are….
> Edison: Home Schooled
Nothing wrong with that, a lot of people home school in New Hampshire
Spencer deserves a seat with full privileges. He is a solid scientist with excellent abilities in mathematics and physics.
Monctkon is a circus act. In a real scientific debate with scientists, where there is plenty of time to explore depth of knowledge and to fully respond to wild claims, I think Monckton would be totally destroyed. His sole role is obfuscation, and he is good at confusing people who understand little about the science involved.
[Reply: Such ad hominem attacks are discouraged here. Provide specific, substantive refutations of Monckton’s science, or take it elsewhere.]
Roy Spencer’s book, the Great Global Warming Blunder, sets forth in plain American English one extended argument which reveals the single greatest weakness in the AGW position, namely, that the AGW people have no hypotheses which explain the behavior of clouds. Such hypotheses are absolutely necessary if the AGW people are to explain the “forcings” that are necessary to yield more than one degree Celsius of warming this century. In response, all the AGW people can do is crank up another model run; that is, they produce yet more epicycles on epicycles. Spencer’s book is especially important because its shows the lay of the land exactly as it is today. The so-called science of AGW is in its infancy and does not have the hypotheses which would make it a genuine science. Someday there will be genuine climate hypotheses but they do not exist today. There is no scientific basis for AGW proponents’ claims of dangerous global warming.
R. de Haan says:
November 27, 2010 at 10:56 am
Sorry but the old joke “Can we rise up and slaughter them yet?” starts to take on new meaning.
DaveE.
JimB says:
November 27, 2010 at 1:17 pm
Pray for snow but they’ll spin it as climate change
DaveE.
The Lord Monckton is a fraud.! There is an accepted process by which the “facts”of science are presented. The process requires research and a presentation based on rigorous study. The Lord does not do research. He writes volumes of largely nonsensical prose and then pretends that this diatribe refutes the mountains of research performed by scientists from all over the world. Most informed persons are not fooled by this craziness, but there are many who are unaware of scientific protocols who are part of his fan club. This is sad.
REPLY: You mean he’s like Al Gore? -A
carbon traders going to loose billions that is real tough . a fool and this money soon part
Lord Monctkon . I have been to a monctkon speech on climate change, and I was very impressed with the way he spoke to us, everybody was able to understand what he had to say . If they let him speak at Cancun, I think you will be very surprised.
I hope Monckton does another lord-on-the-street interview with greenpiece activists like he did last year, that was hilarious.
Owen and Hugh Pepper: you folks have not been paying attention.