This was a live blog of this event held at the State Capital in committee, meeting room 127. Brevity is due to blogging on my cell phone.
Live Blogging
Maintenance guy adjusting thermostat down to keep people from keeling over in packed room. Hansen would have turned it up like 1988
Monckton has arrived shaking hands in a packed room
Lots of people handing out Eco flyers now.
Packed room the air is thick. Standing room only.
Monckton making a point to greet everyone he can.
Session started
State Assemblyman Dan Logue at right of Monckton in center chair.
Various introductions and statements now.
Monckton starts with “unsettled” science
Slide says ipcc credibility gap
Now onto the skeptic argument and climate history
Feedback
Drawing some laughs commenting on ipcc
Graph on cycles now and where are we measuring within cycles
Hockey stick trick description, citing M& M and preference for software to make HS shape by 390x
91 people in a room designed for 50 by my count people still trying to get in
Talking about censored folder and Mann data wipes out MWP when used
Now onto hide the decline
Monckton taking questions from committee
Now onto AR3 and changes to final draft to change conclusion
Showing actual data diverges from models now
454 trillion $ per degree F global
Still having thermostat trouble
Citing a quote from David Archibald
“West no longer the problem”
CA losing major manufacturers
Biofuels and diversion of food and funds from other worthy projects
Talk concluding 2:35pm
Applause
Next speaker
Now q and a from committee
Crowd well behaved
Guy on the end of dais making a 15 minute speech now…question anywhere?
Committee chair shuts him down with courtesy, draws big laugh.
Copies of Jo nova’s skeptic handbook being passed out to some committee members
Just now got to sit down after standing 1.5 hours some people leaving as q and a winds down.
325pm session ends with closing remarks
Monckton and I invited to governor’s office for private meeting
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UPDATE 745 PM Governor ducked our meeting, passed us off to an aide. Hope to have update on this and full presentation tomorrow, pretty beat after 90 mile drive back.
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Hmm… I’d comment on the content, but there just doesn’t seem to be any. Repeat of yesterday? Or is this just a post about waiting on Monckton?
Hey, I’ve spoken in that same exact committee room a couple of times before (in another life). small world!
Where in California? How long will he be visiting?
Tiny room, not many people.
Should show photo of back and sides of room.
@James Baldwin Sexton
I believe Mr. Watts is updating this live. It looks to be more of a play by play account of what is happening.
Ditto James’s comment. Is this supposed to be some sort of psuedo live-blogging thing? Because if it is… it’s crap.
Is there a repost option available? I love Monckton. Please avoid cheapening his lectures.
Live Blogging next time I won’t bother if this is the thanks I get for 90 mile drive and time out of my day to bring this to you.
Try this on a cellphone and see how well you do, sheesh
Thanks Anthony.
For any who can attend: Lord Monckton is speaking in San Diego this Saturday.
http://lordmonckton.eventbrite.com/
Well done Anthony. I’ve followed this live blog from photo No1, but didn’t want to interupt by posting before the end.
Thankyou Anthony. Living in Australia, I appreciate it.
Well Mr. Watts I think you deserve a big thank you for the effort you put into it with the tools you had available to you.
Thank You.
Great to see the inside and show this event happening to place these events in context for us who aren’t there. Nice reporting to compliment the earlier post of the presentation statistics and main points.
Pay the ” live-blogging skeptics” no mind, Anthony. hee hee hee. I enjoyed it all the same.
Anthony Watts says:
March 21, 2012 at 2:42 pm
Live Blogging next time I won’t bother if this is the thanks I get for 90 mile drive and time out of my day to bring this to you.
Try this on a cellphone and see how well you do sheesh
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I took about a 90 mile drive in my summer car, to look for bird kills at my nearest windfarm in northwest Illinois. It turns out the roads aren’t very good, so I guess I’m gonna have to fuel up my SUV to get a close look.
Thanks for the effort Anthony, people forget you are a one man band, and don’t have a sound man, camera man and the rest of the staff a main stream news crew would have on scene.
Hope you could capture audio for later transcription or play.
Larry
Thanks for covering that. I was interested in his visit.
Hope you stay for his evening talk there in Sacramento.
I heard him interviewed on the radio this morning and he is fantastic.
Nice if you two could share a meal…
Great post!
I enjoy “seeing” the event and the room. Can you remember any of the comments or questions?
Thanks for going there!
Bradley J. Fikes says:
March 21, 2012 at 2:06 pm
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Sacramento.
I believe he is also speaking at 7p at Sac State.
While I appreciate the effort you’ve gone to with this Anthony, I wonder if a proper write-up after the event would be better (ie more detailed). Perhaps a sequel / update to this post at some point? The trouble is, as a blog post (especially one on *this* site) it’s got very little information content compared to the usual posts we get here.
Just a thought, but perhaps consider seeing if you have some readers near Monckton’s next stop: with enough time maybe they can help set up a camera to stream it or something.
“sheesh” sums it up nicely Anthony, the demands of non-contributors eh ?
Great. Thank you for covering this – history in the making!
I appreciate it!
Thanks Anthony, and thanks Lord Monckton.
Anthony,
I appreciate your efforts! I enjoyed the play by play and the pics. I certainly would be interested in a summary write-up when you get the chance to find out more of the details about the goings-on.
Again, I thought it was great. I won’t find this anywhere else…
I’d like to hear this guy in person. Any idea if he has a public speaking schedule?
Great job and thanks Mr. Watts. Yes, a full write up would be fine, but you’ve posted often and well on Lord Monckton. Kinda like the live, keepin’ it real aspect of this. peace
Anthony – Thanks for your efforts. How was the Q&A segment?
Any good questions? Did anyone try to offer counter arguments or objections?