UPDATE: Monckton is being deported from Qatar. Such a show of tolerance from the “tolerant left” who do these sorts of stunts all the time (sometimes illegally). Monckton has been ‘de-badged’, meaning he no longer has a visa to stay in Qatar and had 24 hours to leave the country.
UPDATE2: Monckton says “I was very bad” see below. We now have video. There doesn’t seem to be any “booing” after his statement as asserted by the press reports, and his statement was more than a sentence as reported.
UPDATE3: Monckton gives his account here
An excerpt from an E &E Newswire story
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After the news conference, and as diplomats gathered for the climate conference president’s assessment of how close countries are to agreement, Monckton quietly slipped into the seat reserved for the delegation of Myanmar and clicked the button to speak.
“In the 16 years we have been coming to these conferences, there has been no global warming,” Monckton said as confused murmurs filled the hall and then turned into a chorus of boos.
The stunt infuriated negotiators and activists here who gather every year to address what they believe is one of the world’s top threats, the steady rise of man-made global warming.
As Monckton was escorted from the hall and security officers stripped him of his U.N. credentials, several people noted that just a few hours earlier a group of young activists had been thrown out of the convention center and deported. Their crime: unfurling an unauthorized banner calling for the Qatari hosts to lead the negotiations to a strong conclusion.
By late today, several activists attending the conference had posted calls to “deport Monckton” on their Twitter feeds
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Full story:
Inhofe, Monckton crash U.N. talks with gusto
Jean Chemnick, E&E reporter
Published: Thursday, December 6, 2012
http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2012/12/06/2
h/t Marc Morano
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Lord Monckton claims victory over climate change scare stories – Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthvideo/9728622/Lord-Monckton-claims-victory-over-climate-change-scare-stories.html
Excerpt:
Earlier in the week he appeared in a video promoted by US lobby group the Committee on a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) riding a camel to promote a “different perspective” of the talks.
The two-week meeting, due to end on Friday is deadlocked on modest goals such as aid and an extension of an existing UN-led plan to combat climate change into 2013.
The European Union, Australia, Ukraine, Norway, Switzerland are the main backers of Kyoto who are willing to extend legally binding cuts in emissions beyond 2012 until 2020.
But they account for less than 15 per cent of world emissions.
Russia, Japan and Canada have pulled out, saying it makes no sense to continue when big emerging nations led by China and India have no binding goals.
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[Monckton] has been banned for life from UN climate talks.
Speaking afterwards, he said he was acting on the “spur of the moment”.
“I don’t think it was my turn to talk, but the opportunity presented itself and I took it,” he said.
“I was very bad – I pressed the button and made a short statement.”
“I know it was bad of me, but I got some brief points across which the delegates probably didn’t expect.
“They have now taken my badge, but it’s not the end of the world.”
VIDEO:
Guess they just can’t handle (or recognize) the truth.
I’m with Monckton!
Snort. 🙂
What an unbelievable ass.
You just have to love him don’t you.
Christopher Monckton, adaptable and action oriented. Using the opposition tactics with good effect. Just the kind of guy you need in your corner.
You go Lord M.
How infantile! I love it! It appeals to my immature personality. Well done, Monckton
Funny stunt. However, he had to expect that outcome.
Jolly well done your Lordship. I would have loved to see the look on their faces when confronted by someone actually telling the truth
This could actualy backfire a bit. Until now, no one in the entire world even knew that there was a climat summit in Doha. But this story is hitting the MSM, and people may take notice. Also, doesn’t really help his credibility.
Thrown out for telling the truth!
Wow, COP18–real classy there.
NOT!
Way to go, Lord Monckton! Good on you. Let’s hope that at least some in that crowd actually dare to wonder and maybe even – shock – question. I know, I know, too much to hope for, but that ripple of confusion is a start. Head scratching comes next. Some might dare to peek at real data (not that they would ever tell anyone, of course). Monckton is a fantastic human being. I love his strength of spirit.
Ah yes, the steady rise that stopped 16 years ago. No wonder those murmurs were confused.
Censorship of opposing scientific views is essential to keep the idiocracy up and running.
Lord Monckton’s small rebellion caused me to click on Climate Depot, something I haven’t done in a long time. Anyone else who did the same thing as a result of this story would see plenty of news and information contradicting the UN climate alarmist crowd.
So kudos to Lord Monckton. Publicity is good. This was almost as entertaining as his parachute landing. ☺
…and thus the entire climate debate can be summarized:
UN: The world is coming to an end!
Monckton: Good news! Turns out it isn’t!
UN: Boo!
Anthony: Now that the “Sea Ice Substantially Disappears” clock has run out, can we get a clock counting up “Time without warming?” Would love to see that 16 years as it grows…
I wonder if protester/law-breaker James Hansen will denounce Monkton for this. That would be a hoot. Long live Lord Monkton!
Fantastic news that he was thrown out and booed. It was a forum for the grown ups. Not for right wing lobbyists protecting funding for conservatives. No doubt the anti vaccers also get outraged at their chosen one getting booted out of science forums, or intelligent design nutters getting booted out of biology or geology discussions. There is a place for nutters pushing private agendas, just not in science.
Mike says:
Only unbelievable if you’re willing to deny the truth, Mike, which is obviously what you’re doing.
Monckton’s statement is very believable–there has been no significant warming in 16 years. The fact that COP18 would kick him out speaks volumes on their regard of the truth!
And I’ll spell it out to you, Mike, you ignorant, classless, misguided and facinorous dude: Anthropogenic Global Warming is FALSE. Earth has just proved it to you. Gaia has just spat in your face and caught you and yours in the biggest, boldest, most expensive and destructive LIE ever perpetrated on mankind.
So respond, Mike: Show everybody how destitute is your logic, how overblown is your conceit, and how evil is your intent.
I can’t wait.
Mike:
At December 6, 2012 at 11:29 am your post says in total
I agree that you are, but I have a question. Why do you want to proclaim it?
Richard
MIke,
Personally I never noticed the shape of His Lordship’s behind, but if you find it attractive, you certainly are free to express that there, I suppose.
This is what happens when you tell people the inconvenient truth. What’s to boo? Did he lie? They say the truth hurts and here it was illustrated.
There is no freedom of speech in the UN.
What an unbelievable asset!
The Doha conference and all the previous conferences are like a conflab of a church. Roman Catholics would not be happy if someone suddenly told the gathering that there is nothing to support a belief in the virgin birth or transsubstantiation, and they would react in exactly the same way as did the delegates to the Doha conference, with booing, eviction, etc. It just goes to show that those at both types of conference are “true believers” who are not to be dissuaded from their beliefs.
IanM
Leave it to W S Burroughs………