Lord Monckton parachutes into Durban
At first I thought this was a joke. Then I see Monck flying through the air via live cam during freefall, grinning no less. Marc Morano gives the introduction.
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Awesome! That man has spunk! What courage! (I saw this on another site that didn’t identify Lord Monckton and when I saw this unmistakable face with the big grin, I thought, “No…. can’t be! But it was!)
Ah, where eagles dare…
…to stomp los warmista turkeys.
Nothing of the science (or the absence thereof in the whole preposterous bogosity of the AGW contention), but wonderful fun nevertheless.
Why should this Durban circle-jerk be nothing more than a festival of the fascisti?
Well done M’Lord!
Not in a million years would I do that, just seeing it on video is enough to give me the heebie jeebies! But it’s awesome anyway!
Brilliant bloke. Met him a couple of times. He was leader of the party I’m in UK I P the only British political party with common sense.
LOLOLOL! Great stunt. I hope it gets the attention it deserves. Very courageous; very impressive. Seeing Lord Monckton in the video was a great moment. I’m still smiling!
He actually dove through all that CO2 and survived!?!
(I love this guy!)
I wish he wouldn’t take chances like that – we need him!
Nice one Lord Monckton. I thought Jo Nova was having a laugh yesterday and did not check it out! Balls of steel! Shame you could not have landed on Huhne’s head!
That’s hilarious!! Kudos to Lord Monckton. I’ve got to say that I’ve always gotten a huge grin and bit of a warm fuzzy hearing about folks who a bit surprisingly perhaps, take a shot at a little adventure, such as Lord Monckton here or President Bush, Sr., going for a skydive on his 85th birthday. http://tinyurl.com/nzsyko
I’ve never actually skydived because I have a very bad knee from an accident while I was just a teen. I didn’t want to risk totally ruining it (was told it’d be easy to damage so badly that they’d have a hard time even do a total knee replacement). But I have gone indoor skydiving a few times, and that’s an utter blast!!! (no pun intended) Those of you having a hard time believing/comprehending that concept, it’s real – check out: http://flyawayindoorskydiving.com/pf.html Just a few bucks, and you can be blown away {VBG}. I believe there is at least one other indoor skydiving place in the USA also, but sure not many of them. I was told that a lot of the very best precision skydiving teams train at these places, because the confines of the room force you to very accurately control your motion in the slipstream while airborne, which really helps if you’re trying to match up with others and grab hands while still in free fall, for example. On the other hand, when you skydive in the wide open sky, you can have a tremendous amount of motion in various directions without realizing it. Regardless, the indoor version is a lot of fun, and I can sure understand why Lord Monckton would break out in that big grin!
I knew it! Rising levels of atmospheric CO2 causes an increased precipitation of skeptics.
Brilliant! Lord Monckton makes Superman look like an aimless plodding amateur.
While I appreciate the efforts that Marc Morano & Lord Monckton put forth daily on a shoestring budget against the massive resources of the Global Warming Industry but this is a stunt I secretly enjoy but would have preferred not to have happened.
Like a Boss! (or maybe a Lord?)
Lord Monckton parachtues into Durban. A man who literally flies in the face of adversity. ;0)
Not to pick nits, but the skydiving part comes only BEFORE you open the chute. After that, you’re parachuting, of course. The record altitude, btw, is about 20 miles. A planned 23-mile-high challenge was cancelled last year because of some liability issues or SLT.
Brilliant! Lord Monckton seemed as if he was enjoying the sky dive as much as the publicity. Anyone who can sky dive and then walk around on a beach in the height of a South African summer, wearing a black suit deserves the description “Cool”.
Once again, well done Lord Monckton.
Incidentally the BBC propaganda machine continues to roll. No mention of the cold weather, but a report about glaciers shrinking in the French Alps was given prominence, together with another report that 40% of cancers are caused by lifestyle choices. There is little to choose between health and climate fascism.
Brian H says:
December 6, 2011 at 11:31 pm
Nice to know there are one or two people in Durban whose IQ score is higher than their hat size. And well done to Monckton.
But viewed purely as agitprop, the smug & egregious Meltdown Mann’s slickly staged performance (posted on WUWT today) wins hands down. Production values do count for something. And the sound here is terrible.
congratulations to CFACT and to Lord Monckton
what courage you guys have
and yes I’m making a donation to CFACT
HERE’S a copy of the e mail I received
CFACT is at COP17 in Durban, South Africa as the main negotiating team representing those like you who challenge the UN’s claims of man-made global warming and the ruinously expensive (wholly ineffective) solutions being forced upon the free world’s economies at this conference.
I want to share with you a first hand account of what Barack Obama and other heads of state are doing in your name at this moment in Africa. Our fragile economic recovery and our future economic and civil freedoms are on the table and being negotiated away.
This shocking threat is real.
Our negotiating team needs your help RIGHT NOW.
The new Climategate emails show clearly to any unbiased observer that climate science has been ruinously corrupted by Al Gore, the UN and the massive global warming industry they have created for themselves. CFACT is leading the way in bringing these emails to the world’s attention. After reading this email, make sure to visit CFACT’s ClimateDepot.com and read the most comprehensive Climategate account available.
We’re here now with what the UK Guardian described today as “the formidable team” of Lord Christopher Monckton, Climate Depot’s Marc Morano, Kelvin Kemm (a leading South African nuclear scientist you will likely remember from his crucial work on pebble bed reactors), Nobel prize nominee Leon Louw of South Africa’s Free Market Foundation and CFACT’s expert staff.
Earlier today, CFACT’s skydiving team parachuted past COP17 onto Amanzimtoti beach. The divers trailed smoke and banners proclaiming “Climategate 2.0, Science Not Settled” and “No New Treaty.” Multiple media outlets showed up to record the event, including the AP, BBC, and South Africa’s national news network. It was a huge success!
We are face to face in Durban with the negotiators. We have learned that while many have discounted this conference, knowing that a full climate treaty is difficult to achieve especially with a U.S. Senate that will not vote to ratify, Obama and his fellow climate travelers are working around the Senate and planning to stick America with the bill. They are creating side agreements that give them much of what they want from a treaty. These side agreements will not come home for a vote in the Senate, or other national legislatures. Democracy is being blind-sided.
How about a new tax on every foreign currency transaction in the world? This is only one small example of what the radical greens are planning in collusion with world governments in Durban. This is how they plan to fund a $100 billion “Green Climate Fund” and then expand it to $400 billion.
That’s right. Every time you travel abroad, you’ll have to pay a climate tax. More importantly, ever time we import goods, every time we export our fine products (think jobs) we will do so with a climate tax skimming off the top. Europeans seem particularly open this to this monstrosity. Reckless spending has badly tarnished the Euro. But transactions within the Eurozone won’t have to pay this new tax. Guess who will?
CFACT is here. In South Africa. Keeping you briefed on these developments. We are speaking truth to power. They don’t love us here. For us, that is a badge of honor and proof of our effectiveness. Today CFACT is setting up a “climate classroom” in our official UN display space. We will use this display to call attention to Marc Morano’s comprehensive new report which details the failures of climate science from A-Z.
We’ll keep you posted. More importantly, we won’t permit the UN climatecrats, the climate research grant seekers, the radical climate campaigners and those eager to redistribute what you have worked for
to the whole UN menagerie of third world despots and corporations who want to keep on cashing in.
We are your eyes, ears and voice in these crucial negotiations.
We cannot do it alone.
As the talks advance, tension mounts and nerves begin to fray, being able to count on you, having you with us, sustains us and permits us to carry on the fight. We know you understand this and hope you know how much we appreciate you who stand beside us.
We plan so much in the short time we have left to influence these talks. Barack Obama, Al Gore, their UN pals and the climate kleptocracy cannot be permitted to operate unobserved. They must be forced to listen. We need your help and we need it today.
I am proud of the team I am honored to lead. I am proud to join with you.
Thank you,
Craig Rucker
Executive Director
CFACT
P.S. The whole global warming industry is in Durban, South Africa. They are smug. They expect to leave here with money for themselves and less freedom for you. Stopping them is a herculean task. We are making headway here. We will challenge them again and again. With your help. In the end. We will win.
Three people jump out of an airplane: a Monck, a Nurse, and a NASA-funded part-time activist.
Who won?
The first was well prepared, flew downward, popped his fine silk parachute, and floated down to land. The Monck looked rather chipper.
The Nurse flailed his arms about, shouted to the wind how the best scientific computer models all showed how all the hot air being expelled by the humans below would keep him afloat, but failed to convince Gravity that those models properly described his reality. Good night, Nurse.
But, the activist won. You see, he hated trains, dirty deadly trains hauling coal, wanted to stop them from running. When he leapt out, he looked below and saw train tracks, and a train hauling filthy coal! He tucked his arms in, and soared straight down, aiming for the tracks ahead of the train. The activist won, he undeniably succeeded in his ultimate objective, he forced that train to stop dead on its tracks, for when he impacted the railway bed at terminal velocity he crafted a beautiful magnificent Hansen crater.
@W*T H*L*B*T , Viscount Monckton has never been leader of UKIP. He is their spokesperson for climate and climate change issues, but he was never their leader. And I am also a supporter of UKIP.
coldest day on record in northern nsw australia 7/12/2011
Did the AFF in Oz in 1999, did 7 of the 10 jumps but then realised that I was to intelligent to be jumping out of a perfectly good plane, ticked it off my bucket list though. Spent a fortnight at the airfield with some of the craziest guys you will ever meet.
And if your wondering what you first jump will be like don’t worry most people will not remember exactly what happened as you get Total sensory overload :- http://www.bpslangar.co.uk/default.aspx?id=9c250a21-144c-4efe-a4d9-332a984410ee
massive drop in AGW belief in Britain read guardian