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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Just as well that Moonbeam split on you. He would not have known what you and the Viscount were talking about anyway.
I just wish I lived close enough to have attended. Good story–what happened in your private meeting w/ the guv, Anthony? Can you tell us about it?
Hey sheesh dude!
You think youse can compete with WUWT with some kinda live blog!
You be nobody compared to WUWT!
Now what is that thing I am supposed to end with. 🙂
You’re efforts are appreciated Anthony…. Eyes on validation of an event is fine by me. I don’t need fireworks or special effects to go with my facts.
Mr Monckton’s is entertaining, theatrical and his science is impeccable…. Mr Watts isn’t so much the entertainer, he carries those fact just so far then plonks ’em down an’ points at them. Up to us to make use of it…… and since he’s been doing this, millions have.
Keep up the good work Anthony….. Assign Kenji “the concerned scientist” to the entertainment role…. He’s a natch. 😉
Anthony, don’t let the trolls get to you – you and your hard and constant work are appreciated by the huge majority of those who read WUWT every day.
Some people want the moon on a stick. I’ll settle for reality. Thanks Anthony!
Anthony,
It was so good to meet you. I’m very glad that you were there and had the opportunity to meet top staff in the Governor’s office with Lord M. I’m also very pleased that I had the opportunity to meet you and have a short verbal exchange.
Please disregard your negative commenters here. They weren’t there (to their regret). There were no negative commenters at the event. It was pleasant, high class and very informative.
Very well done.
Please note that for the exception of Senator Rod Wright, this event was boycotted by the Democrats in the CA legislature. So is CAGW a political or scientific issue? If it was conceived to be scientific wouldn’t one think some of the Dems would have been there? Sure looks like its basis is political. Imagine that.
Just got my ticket to Lord Monckton’s address in San Diego. What a privilege that will be – can’t wait!
nil illegitimi carborundum
Your efforts are appreciated by far more than the odd armchair wanna-be
Keep up the good work – I have no idea how you manage to turn out such a high quantity of such high quality posts – and then all the moderating you do on top – I struggle to keep up with just the odd contribution
Andi
I was privileged to meet Lord Monckton when he gave a series of meetings in New Zealand last August.
I have 50 pictures from his lecture, which was well received by the audience. Here’s one picture:
http://i39.tinypic.com/jseg3l.jpg
The NZ Government Minister most responsible for introducing a carbon tax in NZ resigned in disgrace yesterday for unrelated reasons.
I’m sorry but I am logged into WordPress correctly under my usual email address but WordPress is not allowing me to use my usual email address here.
I think WordPress has bugs.
Anthony, What kinda feelings there was in generally?
Thanks for covering that, Anthony, Now the event won’t go down the memory hole.
If I had know the viscount was coming I might have gone downtown to see him myself.
-Joe
Anthony, do you recall the name and position of the aide with whom you and Moncton spoke? Did he know anything about the topic? Ask any probing questions? Seem to care one way or the other? It would be edifying to know whether the Gov actually is entertaining doubts about the wisdom of Green Goddess worship, or instead merely wanted to keep the both of you out of sight for a while.
I just got back from his 7:00pm lecture at Sacramento State. It was excellent. If anyone doubts his abilities at recall, the opening, lengthy remark about how he was going to call a spade a spade (had a huge spontaneous burst of applause from the audience), and then his closing remarks quoting from Longfellow – wow. Standing ovation.
I’m still wondering, how can a performance like that that be for free ?? Big Oil subsidies, has to be, ha ha ha !!!!!
It was akin to Pink Floyd playing in my back yard.
Calling Phil Jones one of the creepiest scientists he had ever met was a new one to me. I thought the guy was just a sub-mediocre English, yes sub-mediocre (as in sub-mediocre squared) academic gone wrong. Creepy it is then.
Anthony, appreciate the effort. Merely keeping up with Lord Monckton’s information-rich conversation can make you tired.
Of incidental future interest, Nikon released a completely new camera concept last Christmas, the Nikon 1. Because I’m an addicted early adopter, I bought one, a V1 variant. It’s amazing. It has no mirror, it is very small, has 10.1 MPx detector & it can take full HD video 1920 x 1080 at 30 frames per second, built in stereo microphone + jack for external, even a selection of recorded background music built in. About 20 mins per battery charge on highest performance quality. Or, if you wish, you can do slow mo at 1,200 fps or time lapse at 20 sec frame intervals. The whole lot, with 2 lenses from 30 mm wide to 300 mm tele in 35mm terms should cost under $1,500 in the USA. You would not need extra lighting in the room you show. Indeed, even in darkness it has no external knobs or lens rings to change aperture, shutter speed, ISO etc, these all being automatic unless you choose the manual menu. Face recognition and tracking are there too.
Accessories are still being released but I can imagine that before long a live broadcast (rules permitting) would be possible at very good quality, with a very shallow learning curve. Anyone want to give Anthony one to evaluate?
Missed your entire live blogging, Anthony, but made up by reading it later with all the comments here. Thanks very much for the hard work!
How can we get Lord Monckton to do his presentation at Boise State University? There’s plenty of watermelons here, despite Idaho’s rep as the “reddest” State.
Then there’s the Idaho Statesman birdcage liner. That rag has never met an unfounded pro AGW article they won’t print. Still no retraction or apology for printing some big rant about the phony Heartland Institute memo.
Ant – I think a lot of confusion arose because of the recently posted talk by Moncton on WUWT. There was an impression that this was a repost but with rather less detail than the original.
Certainly, when I saw it I couldn’t make out what it was all about. Whether it was new, old, a repeat or something else, That’s all.
I trust the trip wasn’t too onerous and that you gained some insights into the way your Gov was not thinking.
Many thanks
Stephen
As a Brit I have nothing to say on how California runs it’s policies without my being asked. But I am very glad that they are inviting Brits who do have something to say.
And Anthony, I thought your coverage was informative and appropriate for the event.
Would anyone want you to disrupt the talk in order to take photos?
philincalifornia said
‘Calling Phil Jones one of the creepiest scientists he had ever met was a new one to me. I thought the guy was just a sub-mediocre English, yes sub-mediocre (as in sub-mediocre squared) academic gone wrong. Creepy it is then.’
I’m not sure sub mediocre is fair, I would say merely ‘average’ as is Dr Mann himself. The number of exceptional objective scientists working in an open minded fashion in this field is not great. Their talent comes from gaining an incredulous audience through their work.
tonyb
Yeah, I enjoyed the sense of immediacy captured in this somewhat unusual style of report. I reckon that some contemporary novelists should study the post to get some inspiration on narrative perspective. I’ll go so far as to say, almost as good as William Faulkner’s first Quentin’s monologue in The Sound & the Fury, Anthony, but in this case it’s Mann who’s jumped in the lake with the horse shoes in his coat pockets. That’s the power of Monkton.
Thanks for this Anthony! I hope you’ve found that the vast majority appreciate your efforts!
Now if Lord Monckton would just make a stop in Houston………. 😀
Anthony,
A wise friend once told me, “No good deed goes unpunished”.
Thanks for not posting my “Empty post?” comment at the start of your live blog. After Jay’s clumsy comment I felt bad that my comment could have been interpreted as critical. I simply misread your blog post on my iphone.
Thanks for your work.
Ignore the naysayers, Sir. That was valuable stuff so keep it up and thanks.
So was he or was he not the scientific advisor of Tatcher? If he got that sorted out now I might give him an ear. But he has been refuted so many times I guess its a WOT.