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.
Video:
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link for Cassandra’s post
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/dec/07/public-support-climate-change-declines?intcmp=122
So is Monckton now officially one of the ‘Lords’ a Leaping’?
Cool stunt from a cool guy – but a stunt nonetheless! I just hope he keeps up with his skills at verbally thrashing the warmistas.
Lesser people have government meeting underwater…..Monckton blows them off!
Meme to the eco-number-crunchers …
What’s the carbon footprint for each delegate’s arrival to the Durban Gab-fest??
What’s the carbon-footprint for the free-fall arrival of “The Monck” to the Durban Gab-fest??
The symbolism is Monck-perfect
I find this very impressive, (The Vid) It shows how trivia, stunts, scares, smears etc are more effective than the quiet truth.
it’s kinda roundabout but…
twentyish years ago, as a young ‘copywriter’ in London I got the chance to ‘pitch’ for writing work on a PR campaign about the Kyoto Protocol and CFCs. (If you wish to triangulate on the subject you ought to know that London’s star PR Consultant back then was a woman. That should give you a clue)
My ‘brief’ was to get the message across in 30 seconds…about 50 words.
I was writing radio commercials.
I was given briefing material…god how I wish I had been the orderly settled type who could have pulled that from his archives…but moves from house to house, city to country… to different continent means that the notes are lost.
So I am working from memory and I don’t rate myself highly in that department….but firstly let me explain that I had already heard via New Scientist about the ‘scary’ C02 warming thing. And I was very very undecided at the time…i would have been more interested in quantum mechanics, which was going through some interesting times and I admit that from where I was at, the Global Warming thing seemed to me the squawling of an eco-minority aimed at Millennarian Catastrope Market. Puny and ill thought through…anyone with an ounce of common sense and basic scientific training could see that it didn’t add up. I didn’t reckon it would make it…I wrote it off as second rate at the time…poor judgement on my part eh?.
Anyway, the ‘scientific’ briefing material I was given explained with the aid of Graphs, Equations and Impressive Stuff…that from every released CFC molecule there was unleashed an endless chain reaction of Ozone destruction. Now I was no trained scientist, (I had done the first year of A-level physics and dropped it as my weakest subject, my maths was poor.)
But it was quite clear to me that according to the formula which stated that every shattered Ozone bond left behind chemicals which would pull down another two ozone molcules with it…i.e. exponential breakdown….was just…garbage.
That was the moment I understood that this had nothing to do with Science and everything to do with PR.
If the ‘scientific briefing material’ was correct then the Earth’s ozone layer was a matter of mere HOURS away from total annihilation as the ‘chain reaction’ tore through it….exponentially…
I was no scientist…but I knew That was not science.
That was the day I became a skeptic.
I then spent the next twenty years watching these crazy activistists claim the high ground.
Now I grumble about it….
Go figure.
Well done Lord Monckton, with apologies for misspelling your name in a previous comment. But I have never seen the sense of leaping out of a perfectly serviceable aircraft whilst it is still airborne.
I’m surprised Al Gore didn’t have him shot out of the sky! [Is it okay to use the word shot… I’m not sure] What a hoot Monck is!
That’s another great Monckton Moment, it’s raining sceptics!!
And the average IQ in Durban just went up significantly.
Way to go Monck !!!!
Only Lord Monckton – Skydiving in a suit!
Granted it was a tandem, but still.
There’s British for you! style and quiet panache, and he does not talk bullshit.
I think we found one lord a leaping.
I can’t believe he didn’t wear a helmet. I went parachuting twice back in the day when no one wore helmets while riding bikes, but even back then everyone wore helmets while skydiving.
The debonair Monck managed to get 5 seconds of fame on our national propaganda channel, (I mean our national broadcaster’s news channel SABC 3, in South Africa)
They actually allowed him to say on TV news: “The expected temperature increase will be approximately one degree Celsius in a hundred years, and that is all”
Granted, they did allow 15 seconds of fame to the Greenies, but to the Monck’s advantage.
Five greenies had their visas revoked and were booted back home, for absailing down a building without a permit, lol.
The Flying Monck… an amazing chap.
This was also picked up at “First Things”, plus an additional comment.
http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/secondhandsmoke/2011/12/06/global-warming-hysteria-lord-monkton-parachutes-into-durbin/
http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/secondhandsmoke/2011/12/06/global-warming-hysteria-shut-down-the-wests-economies/
@Bob_L says:
You’re mistaken. Unless Lord Monckton is James Bond 😉
Given the title of the post, I’m surprised that no one has suggested that Sally Field may now have some stiff competition. I wonder if he’ll get his own T.V. show?
I love it when the jump master gets LM to let go and put your arms out. Too funny. Whoever had that idea it was a good one. Well done by the old geezer to do a jump at his age!
Perhaps Jones and Mann could try bungee jumping for publicity?
Enjoyment of Monckton’s aerial adventure wouldn’t be complete without his words at the event. A bit long but worthy:
http://www.cfact.tv/2011/12/02/it-isnt-happening/
By Lord Christopher Monckton of Brenchley
Mainstream science, politics, bureaucracy, academe, banking, business, media – all were of one mind. The West, so the playbook ran, must be shut down at once to Save The Planet from “global warming”, er, “climate change”, um, “climate disruption”, no, “extreme-weather events”, ah, that is, “energy-security challenges”. Shale gas? That would solve everything. Hundreds of years’ global supply. No more peak oil. Low carbon footprint. Ban it quick.
I find myself with CFACT in Durban among the creatures of “consensus” for the annual UN climate gabfest. Yet the party line was wrong. At a recent dinner for the inconvenient economist Bjorn Lomborg in London, I first uttered the three fateful words that now fill the hearts of the world’s governing climate racketeers with dread.
“It. Isn’t. Happening.”
When I plopped these three plump pebbles into the conversation, there was a ripple of aghast silence. It was as though I’d perpetrated what the Professor of Greek at Cambridge used to call a “gaseous halation” in front of the Queen.
Most of the diners were climate skeptics. But they were making a bundle out of it. The skeptics had almost as much of a direct, cash vested interest in flogging the long-dead horse of climatic apocalypse as the prophets and profiteers of climate doom.
It just wasn’t the done thing to poop on the party by pointing out that every dire prediction that the usual suspects had made with such sneering arrogance has failed.
Just look. Professor “Phil” Jones of the “University” of East Anglia had to admit, when the BBC’s chief environmental campaigner – er, “correspondent” – put to him a question I’d drafted – that there had been no statistically-significant “global warming” for 15 years. Oops! The UN’s models had not predicted that.
Arctic sea ice was supposed to be gone by 2013. Then it rebounded. Then it was going to reach a new low on 15 September this year, when Al Gore launched his Titanic “Climate Unreality” project. The ice did not oblige. Gore hit a berg that somehow hadn’t melted. His project sank. Even his fellow fortune-hunters in the Green[back] movement now disown his bleating attribution of every recent natural disaster to “global warming”.
Antarctic sea ice has been on the up throughout the satellite era. Global sea ice shows little trend in 30 years.
Polar bears were supposed to be headed for extinction. The fossils on the Supreme Court said so (but they’ve been extinct for years). Today there are five times as many polar bears as 70 years ago.
Kilimanjaro has been losing ice since 1880. Most of the summit glacier had gone by 1936, when Hemingway wrote The Snows. “Global warming” could not have caused the recent ice loss: NASA says the region has been cooling for 30 years. The summit temperature, monitored by satellites, has not changed. Now the glacier is growing again.
Sea level is the big one. James Hansen of NASA, who made more than $1 million out of the climate scare last year alone, had predicted it would rise imminently by 246 feet. Was he right? No. The increase over the past eight years, according to the Envisat satellite, was at a rate equivalent to 2 inches per century. Not meters, not even feet. Inches. Two of them. Per century. Gee wow golly gosh! Take to the boats!
Malaria was going to spread because of “global warming”. Yet the terrible leap in mortality from 50,000 to 1 million child deaths a year occurred a generation ago, when the Environmental Defense Fund – which, with Greenpeace and the World Wide Fund, spent $1 billion of taxpayers’ and donors’ cash on anti-Western pseudo-enviro propaganda last year alone – successfully campaigned for a worldwide ban on DDT, the only effective agent against the mosquitoes that carry malaria.
When the Board of the EDF met to plan the DDT ban, its then legal advisor, Victor John Yannacone Jr., begged it to ban only outdoor use: DDT sprayed inside houses would harm only the mosquitoes and spare the children.
The then chairman, furious, fired Yannacone on the spot. As he left the room, someone said: “That’s the last time we employ anyone who knows any science.” That ban has killed 40 million children.
Extreme-weather deaths are down sharply. Global tropical-cyclone and hurricane activity is almost at its least in 30 years. Severe tornadoes have declined. Patterns of drought and flood remain as unpredictable and as devastating as ever. Bangladesh and nearly all of the Pacific atolls are gaining land mass, not losing it.
Net primary productivity of trees and plants worldwide is up. If you want a greener planet, add as much CO2 to the air as you can. Your emissions are also helping to stave off the next Ice Age. It’s already 6000 years overdue.
Yet the dreary, wasteful, pointless congresses of the greedy feeble-minded continue. The Bali Road-Map to Nowhere. The Copenhagen World-Government Treaty that collapsed as soon as it saw the light of day. The Cancun Concordats to establish 1000 – yes, 1000 – new bureaucracies: the structure of the unelected world government that every ex-politician from Gore and Chirac to Attali is demanding.
Everyone says nothing will happen at Durban. That worries me. It suggests the process of building a totalitarian global junta by what one UN official at Cancun called “transparent impenetrability” – publishing documents of such prolix length and complex obscurantism that no one can understand a word and yet no one can later deny the information was available – will invisibly gather pace.
Lord Reith, the BBC’s first chairman, laying the foundation-stone of what is now the abomination of desolation called Harlow New Town, was heard to mutter, “You’re not going to like it, but you’re going to have it!”
So it will be with the Marxists’ wet dream that is global totalitarian dictatorship. You’re not going to like it. But the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow and I are in Durban to stop them. So perhaps you’re not going to have it after all.
Brilliant. Unlike the flying midge Supermandia.
But the sound is atrocious. I’ve emailed Morano in hope.
Where’s SuperMandia?
I wonder if anyone calculated the change in terminal velocity due to atmospheric CO2 concentration increases. With the change in air density, how did they know it was safe. \sarc GK