From the YouTube description: Lord Christopher Monckton, renowned science and policy expert, presents CFACT’s Kook of the Week. This gentleman was found at the UN Conference on Climate Change in Cancun, Mexico.
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Made me feel good about the US, that we’re exporting enough stuff still to get boycotted. As in many areas of politics and all good social movements, those on the outside edges of the bell curve tend to dominate the discussion. They are all true believers. That is why these people display fanatical traits.
I think he said: “If I was a small island state that was drowning I’d set fire to my forests so I was taking some of them with me”.
If so, then I presume he meant the extra CO2 from burning forests will cause more warming, etc. Makes me embarrassed to be a New Zealander, but as others have pointed out, we’re not all like that.
morgo says:
December 6, 2010 at 6:03 pm
he looks like he is the Senior global warming adviser for the NZ govt
Nope, that’s Dr. Peter Gluckman (a medical doctor, clueless about AGW) and this guy isn’t him. If this guy is who I suspect he is, he’s from UNICEF.
Well, we all have our share of nut bags, and we all knew there was a nut-fest going on down there. Honestly, its kinda funny in a sad, pathetic way. Remember all of the pomp and circumstance in some of the other climate gatherings? Now they’re reduced to a pep-rally for loony-tunes.
For all the New Zealanders who are embarassed by this “gentleman” don’t be. I am a California native. He is no worse than thousands here.
Actually, I guess that wouldn’t make you feel much better. Just be assured we understand that even the best have their worst.
As a counterpoint to this man’s delusion, is a straight to reality quote from Rex Murphy’s latest (National Post) article; ” Does not one of the great minds decoding next century’s weather see the brain splitting contradiction of holding a conference warning of the imminent threat of global warming in a venue that mainly exists because people fly there to get warmer.” Absolutely Beautiful, Mr. Murphy.
Invoking Ixtel? Appeasing Gaia?
These can only be coded references to human sacrifice. That would be the justification for the deaths in the Third World as a consequence of diverting food to SUV fuel, and depriving those regions of the competitive energy with which they could otherwise get their economies moving.
Kumbaya, folks!
ant @ur momisugly December 6, 2010 at 7:37 pm
We can’t even beat the poms at cricket at the moment, so don’t hold your breath for the Aussie cavallry.
BTW the Aussie expression for a chap like this is: “He’s got a few kangaroos loose in the top paddock.”
Eric Smith says:
December 6, 2010 at 8:14 pm
I’m dying for a definition of Monckton’s “right wing nuttery”. What would that be? Threats to Blow up an abortion clinic? Hiding in the mountains with a cache of weapons and camo gear?
Or maybe stating that CAGW is really about a global Marxist government, which it is. ?
Monckton is dead center in America’s Heartland. If the EU doesn’t want him, we’d be glad to have him here.
George E. Smith says:
December 6, 2010 at 5:07 pm
Well I cannot vouch for the sanity or common sense of all NZers. But most of them are pretty ok blokes; just like our Australian cobbers; although they do talk funny.
But as to why Dr Trenberth thinks the earth doesn’t totate under the sun beam, I think it is a travesty , that we have no explanation for that.
I did manage to read an overhead headline on a booth about gender specific Climate Justice; but the idiot, kept blocking it with his head.
I thought that there would only be one gender – Gaian. It just has a multiplicity of subtextual, interpretive manifestations with a series of telelogical, guilt and innocence associations that would provide a plenum of social justice outcomes that would enable an integrative, and inherently eco-friendly redistribution of the worlds financial resources.
Or something like that…
Bob Diaz says:
December 6, 2010 at 6:24 pm
“So help me to understand, the US CO2 emissions are pure evil, but China is OK?
He rattles on and on about the US, but NOTHING about China… Very inconsistent.”
Just follow the money. China is the new cash cow for the resource industries of Australia and New Zealand – including their coal exports of course – so it would be inconvenient to mention them. And China will not let their pandas drown., so they are very green. And China supports this process because they have a lot of coal-fired power plants to pay for, and they can lend us the cash to give them for that.
Too bad about NZ. Such a beautiful country, run by such a bunch of AGW drones. But I must say that, based on all the people from there who I have met, this guy takes the cake. Hope he enjoys his moment of fame and becomes the poster boy for this Watermelon conference.
Cancun Kook Competition
He dresses like a jaffa but I think he is really an ocker pretending to be a kiwi. Lol.
No offense meant to any of us.
I can’t seem to access the tips & notes section fully, I hope here is OK
Anthony, you and Willis may wish to deconstruct this drivvell by MSNBC coming out of Cancun.
If seas swallow island state, is it still a nation?
Climate talks include that issue; Columbia University will gather scholars
“CANCUN, Mexico — Encroaching seas in the far Pacific are raising the salt level in the wells of the Marshall Islands. Waves threaten to cut one sliver of an island in two. “It’s getting worse,” says Kaminaga Kaminaga, the tiny nation’s climate change coordinator.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40534684/ns/us_news-environment/
And these from the link in the article
View key warming indicators
National Academy of Sciences lists ‘significant risks’
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40423341/ns/us_news-environment/
@ur momisugly George E. Smith,
“I did manage to read an overhead headline on a booth about gender specific Climate Justice; but the idiot, kept blocking it with his head.”
Here are the details on Booth 144, from the conference’s website: (note, country code 49 is Germany)
“GenderCC – Women for Climate Justice (GenderCC)
Ms. Gotelind Alber
g.alber@ur momisuglygendercc.net
+49 30 21982175
GenderCC will display posters and materials on gender sensitive mitigation, adaptation and capacity building.
Stand 144 / Both weeks”
Eric Smith says: “If any movement ever had a liability, loony Lord Monckton is it. His extreme right wing nuttery and silly accent are an embarrassment and incredibly easy to ridicule…[yatta-yatta-yatta]”
Ad hominem attack, the AGW troll’s first line of defense. And second. And third. Zzzzzzzzzzz…
@kuhnkat:
Yes, the famous video of the “Santa Cruz Girl” is a great example of kooks in California.
(mods, this video is entirely benign, or G-rated).
I am in Cancun at COP16 with CFACT, and I can confirm that this Kook of the Week is from New Zealand. The NGO he is with is the Global Forest Coalition (we won’t release his name, so please don’t ask).
Unfortunately, he really isn’t very unusual. In just an hour or two, we got many many other delegates to sign the same fake petition calling for the crippling of the US economy by reducing GDP by 6%. We’re making an entire video on that–expect to see it sometime Tuesday afternoon. Follow us on Twitter (@CFACT) to find out exactly when.
If you found this interesting, you should also check out the interview we did with IPCC chair Pachauri, calling him out on the lack of warming over the past 15 years.
No way is this kook a New Zealander. I would say definitely British. The accent is upper class or at least upper middle. The tie is the clincher. Keep your eye on the tie.
Why hide his name and organization, he said the words, he knew he was being filmed.
OT, but the comments box is gone on the Tips and Notes page. Which pretty much eliminates its function, no?
All you Kiwis bemoaning should know exactly why there are so many nutters in New Zealand.
All the smart ones crossed the Tasman and are living in Australia 🙂
But unfortunately for Australia, most of them are on welfare 🙁
I do love our cousins from over the “deutch” though. Great people, great sense of humour and probably the best little corner on the planet to live in. It’s just that the isles are a little shaky.
WUWT readers shouldn’t take this kook on the vid as representative of Kiwis. We all have a throwback or two among us.
Just another whack job in an army of whack jobs attending just another conference paid for by you and me.
Leftist politics, Marxist socialist ideology hidden by a fake concern for the planets wellbeing. We call them the watermellons and they are now controlling huge areas of public policy, yes they have had setbacks but walk around any conference like this and he is typical of them all really.
Anti capitalist and Marxist, leftist to the core these people are more dangerous to all of us than many realise. They have the funding stream and they earn a very good living on the backs of taxpayers but how did it come to this? The leftists need a cause and a platform from which to launch their policy goals and a front which they can hide their ghastly beliefs behind. The best way to expose these whackos is to talk to them, you soon find out their true agenda.
Eric Smith says: December 6, 2010 at 8:14 pm
If any movement ever had a liability, loony Lord Monckton is it. His extreme right wing nuttery and silly accent are an embarrassment and incredibly easy to ridicule
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Well Eric Smith, I don’t know nor care how you would ‘easily ridicule’ Lord Monckton but I do know from the strategy that you outline here that you do not convince me that you would have the skill or ability to succeed in your task. I do know however, that should you attempt to do so, Lord Monckton would flay you within an inch of your life. You would be, as they say ‘down under’, Dog Tucker.
Douglas
His name is irrelevant. His words are what is relevant. These crackpots come from your towns and mine. They hold the attention of those in power throughout the western world. And because they do, CFACT’s video needs wide distribution so the ordinary citizens of our countries can see for themselves where, how, and upon whom their taxes are being spent.
Thanks for helping to reveal these loons CFACT and WUWT.