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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Well you think he’s a nut job. Here in Zimbabwe my president ( yes that guy ) is telling us endlessly that we are chopping down 300 000 hectares of forest every year to burn ( out of a total of 11m Ha ) because of global warming.
Go figure.
Baa Humbug says: December 6, 2010 at 10:13 pm
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 .
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Baa Humbug. Baa Humbug to you too. Everyone knows that the migration of New Zealanders to Australia raises the IQ of both countries. – and BTW – don’t dare raise the subject of sheep!
Cheers
Douglas
Hmmm. How about just calling it “Kookun”? It sounds like cocoon, which seems to fit their insulation from reality.
Brendan H says: December 6, 2010 at 10:05 pm
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.
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Brendan. He’s got the flat vowels of N.Zers but much of his accent is barstardized. There are a lot of strange and contradictory pronunciations that seem to be collected from other parts of the world – No upper class sound though. Maybe he migrated to NZ a good time ago.
Anyway – kook he is- wherever he is from! I don’t get the tie bit though Brendan.
Douglas
Okay, so we ‘ve got all the climate idiots in one place. Can we make sure they all stay there so the rest of the world can get on with life unmolested?
NGO delegate…
Get a perm!
The Kooks name is Sandy Gauntlett he is an environmental activist of Maori descent. He lectures in indigenous resource management at the indigenous university of Te Wananga O Aotearoa in New Zealand. He also chairs the Pacific Indigenous Peoples Environment Coalition and the Pacific Regional Focal Point for the Global Forest Coalition.
Sandy Gauntlett?
Anoneumouse beat me to it.
“Off Topic Britain just hammered Aussie in the cricket,…why can’t they both loose?”
Not a clever comment considering what happened to the Kiwis in India, and your Rugby team continues to peak between world cups.
As a Kiwi, I was embarrassed by this idiot, but only briefly. The odds of finding rational delegates at Cooncan must be fairly slim. It’s interesting that he has a job with the Wananga O Aotearoa, but only mildly – every race and ethnicity has it’s share of people who are a few sandwiches short of a full picnic.
@ur momisugly Schadow
“Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, invoked the ancient jaguar goddess Ixchel in her opening statement to delegates gathered in Cancun … ”
The Mayas and the Aztecs used to go in for human sacrifice on a large scale. Is the UN considering that as a possible means of preventing global warming? It would probably be just as effective as some other “green” policies.
Josh – December 6, 9:58 pm
In your interview (around the 40 second mark), Pachauri notes that it is the “planetary system” that is warming, and not just the Earth. Perhaps you could have asked him how anthropogenic CO2 emissions got to the other planets?
Brendan H says:
December 6, 2010 at 10:05 pm
‘No way is this kook a New Zealander. I would say definitely British.’
Absolutely not British, the vowel sounds are definitely antipodean not mainland UK. Not that it matters – we have plenty of similar nutters here in GB. And to Eric above: where are you from, son? I expect your accent would sound pretty ‘silly’ to anyone from Britain too if they were as xenophobic and dim as your good self. Poor old troll, all falling to bits ain’t it?
Not all the kooks are in Cancun.
Far too many of them are in positions of power here in Britain, as evidenced below.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/windpower/8181139/New-generation-of-giant-wind-turbines-planned-for-Britain.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1336246/Britain-needs-20-000-wind-turbines-stick-green-targets.html
“Crippling the US economy is the sole purpose of the AGW anti-CO2 apparatus.”
But most of those who support AGW are from the USA…
Eric Smith says: December 6, 2010 at 8:14 pm
Dear Lord Monckton
I, and I am sure many others here, would very much appreciate it if you could provide us with a single web page wherein are listed all your rebuttals to the prime attacks you have had. It would, moreover, be helpful if your rebuttals can be referenced by paragraph, one click away from a “Contents” list, so as to direct people immediately to the relevant place.
No doubt you are fully aware how many people say you’ve been “rubbished” because they have seen material from the acolytes of Gavin Schmidt, Prof Abrahams, etc – but have not found your answers – no doubt because these good people forgot to include references to your responses.
Perhaps, with the help of Anthony Watts and Ric Werme here, it will be possible for WUWT supporters here to immediately direct your detractors to your truly unanswerable rebuttals.
I’m all for Climate Justice. How much will it cost to move the climate of Central America to Northern Illinois? It is unjust that my heating bills are so high this early in the season.
I do have a proposal that will reduce the cost of justice some. The move only need be done during the months of Dec., Jan., Feb., and March. That should reduce the costs by 2/3rds over a year ’round solution.
Roger Sowell says:
December 6, 2010 at 9:51 pm
Quite possibly the most excruciating 2 minutes 35 seconds I have ever spent….
The developed world does all this to itself and willingly. As the wikileaked documents show, for e.g., there:
http://cablesearch.org/cable/view.php?id=10THEHAGUE54
“The Dutch are concerned that failure by donors to get fast-track financing flowing quickly will lead to more friction with developing countries later this year. ”
the Third World is dragged into this by carrots-and-sticks of “mitigation” funding. But it’s not them underdeveloped, who ask for it, but us developed, who eagerly offer it for toeing our AGW line.
Like that Maldivian said:
“Ghafoor added that Maldives would like to see that small countries, like Maldives, that are at the forefront of the climate debate, receive tangible assistance from the larger economies. Other nations would then come to realize that there are advantages to be gained by compliance.”
Why’s he dressed as a toddler?
here’s a quote from the 18th century scottish philosopher, David Hume, which can be taken to refer nowadays to the “imagined sublunary apocalypses that face mother earth”
“THAT the corruption of the best things produces the worst, is grown into a maxim, and is commonly proved, among other instances, by the pernicious effects of superstition and corruptions of true religion.
These two species of false religion, though both pernicious, are yet of a very different, and even of a contrary nature. The mind of man is subject to certain unaccountable terrors and apprehensions, proceeding either from the unhappy situation of private or public affairs, from ill health, from a gloomy and melancholy disposition, or from the concurrence of all these circumstances. In such a state of mind, infinite unknown evils are dreaded from unknown agents; and where real objects of terror are wanting, the soul, active to its own prejudice, and fostering its predominant inclination, finds imaginary ones, to whose power and malevolence it sets no limits. As these enemies are entirely invisible and unknown, the methods taken to appease them are equally unaccountable, and consist in ceremonies, observances, mortifications, sacrifices, presents, or in any practice, however absurd or frivolous, which either folly or knavery recommends to a blind and terrified credulity. Weakness, fear, melancholy, together with ignorance, are, therefore, the true sources of SUPERSTITION.”
BSM says: December 6, 2010 at 6:04 pm
kuhnkat says: December 6, 2010 at 9:04 pm and the other very witty commentators
Try this one. It will make you feel better. Immeasurably…….
Jane Goodall for the Governors’ Global Climate Summit 3
h/t Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) suggest go to 3.40 mark
“Or maybe stating that CAGW is really about a global Marxist government, which it is. ? ”
The driving forces behind global warming are the investment banks and fossil fuel companies. If Monckton think Goldman Sachs are Marxists, he is insane, and no amount of twisted libertarian logic will convince me otherwise.
International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) members.
BP, Conoco Philips, Shell, E.ON, EDF , Gazprom, Barclays, JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley.. Goldman Sachs.
http://www.ieta.org/ieta/www/pages/index.php?IdSiteTree=1249
Here is Gazprom on Bloomberg today.
“Europe needs to reinvigorate the world’s second-biggest emissions market as global climate talks to reduce greenhouse gases stall, the head of a carbon-trading unit of Russia’s OAO Gazprom said.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-06/europe-can-lift-un-carbon-market-from-cancun-gridlock-gazprom-says.html
In the background there’s a booth with a banner “GENDERCC Women for Climate Justice”. What the heck is that?