Monckton gets evicted from Doha COP18 conference

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

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

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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From http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/9728866/British-peer-ejected-from-UN-climate-talks-for-denouncing-protocol.html

[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.”

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RockyRoad
December 6, 2012 8:54 pm

James Abbott says:
December 6, 2012 at 5:18 pm

By the way, whats a shill ?

I’d say “Look it up on the Internet,” but that didn’t help in your 30-yr investigation of Global Warming. Stick with Gunga Din’s explanation.

Caleb
December 6, 2012 9:05 pm

I’m not sure Monckton bothers read comments, or whether he could get through as many good and not-so-good comments as his stunt generated on WUWT, but if he does get down this far through the comments, I’d like to add another vote of thanks.
I would also like to inform you other dopes that old geezers like Monckton (and myself) do not really need extra hardship in our lives. Getting old is no game for weaklings. Old-timers really ought sit back in some warm situation, being attended to by respectful youths who are eager to hear what we old-timers have learned, over the years.
However respectful youths are hard to find these days.
I think it is a pretty sad state affairs, when Monckton has to to pull stunts like leaping out of airplanes, to be heard. However it likely is a consequence of the disrespect of elders which first appeared with the mantra, “Don’t trust anyone over thirty.”
(Check out “Jerry Rubin,” if interested in where that quote came from.)
However Jerry Rubin checked out in 1994, at age fifty-six. Cause of death? Jaywalking.
So Rubin’s not around to face the consiquences of telling people not to listen to the old and wise.
But he is likely a reason that we old-timers have to be so loud, and have to jump out of airplanes and pull crazy stunts in absurd costumes.
If you young whippersnappers would just listen to logic and reason, life would be a heck of a lot easier for us old folk.

Chris B
December 6, 2012 9:07 pm

FrankK says:
December 6, 2012 at 5:06 pm
Chris B says:
December 6, 2012 at 12:01 pm
climatetruthinitiative says:
December 6, 2012 at 11:49 am
The Doha conference and all the previous conferences are like a conflab of a church. Roman Catholics would not be happy……..
I’m not aware that Roman Catholics are interested in a Global Taxation of CO2 emissions or any other inducement or imposition on non-members. Bad analogy based on bigotry.
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Not quite Chris B, Cardinal Pell the Australian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
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It appears Cardinal Pell does not endorse the AGW agenda of Global Carbon Taxation.
From Wiki:
Responding to the Anglican bishop and environmentalist George Browning, who told the Anglican Church of Australia’s general synod that Pell was out of touch with the Catholic Church as well as with the general community,[29] Pell stated:[30]
“Radical environmentalists are more than up to the task of moralising their own agenda and imposing it on people through fear. They don’t need church leaders to help them with this, although it is a very effective way of further muting Christian witness. Church leaders in particular should be allergic to nonsense….. I am certainly sceptical about extravagant claims of impending man-made climatic catastrophes. Uncertainties on climate change abound … my task as a Christian leader is to engage with reality, to contribute to debate on important issues, to open people’s minds, and to point out when the emperor is wearing few or no clothes.”

F. Ross
December 6, 2012 9:12 pm

Lord Monckton… now there’s a lord with the “juevos” to tell it like it is.

Coke
December 6, 2012 9:19 pm

John,
OOPS! Please ignore my last comment, I had both the graphs that you and Werner Brozek posted in two different tabs in my browser, and confused his with yours when I wrote that comment! (note to mods: would you be so kind as to remove the comment?) [Reply: OK, hope I got the right one. -ModE]
I actually do agree with you that it is hard to believe there is a lack of warming from looking at the graph you posted. I am currently fiddling with the parameters to generate my own graphs on that site, and you are indeed correct that it is hard to discern a halt in the warming trend.
However, I would also like to state that, given the continuous rise of carbon dioxide concentrations over the period in question, one might expect that temperatures would have continued to rise at a rate that is complimentary to the rate of carbon dioxide emissions…. and not level off over the last decade like they have!

Chris B
December 6, 2012 9:23 pm

climatetruthinitiative says:
December 6, 2012 at 3:17 pm
B December 6, 2012 at 12:01 pm
My choice of the Roman Catholic church was based on the fact that they have the biggest (or best covered by news media) conferences and I chose trans-substantiation because it is a debatable bit of dogma that is well known even by non-Catholics.
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Yabut, non-believers in Catholic dogma will not be forced by the power of the state to pay taxes, or indulgences, based on that dogmatic belief, hence your analogy is a non sequitur.
I get the religion analogy but CAGWism is a state supported religion, Catholicism is not, unless you consider the Vatican as a “state”..

December 6, 2012 9:36 pm

James Abbott who says:
Frank K says (in response to Monckton’s comment that
“They (all those concerned about climate change) are about to impose a communist world government on the world”

Well, Monckton was right, and it’s happening here in the U.S.
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Seriously ? The US Government is Communist ? Do you (or Monckton) actually know what a Communist Government looks like ?

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I do know what a Communist government looks like. I didn’t have to research it, I lived in Moscow during the transition from communism to a quasi democracy. What collectivism does to the human spirit and mind is more than criminal. The nationalizing of banks, the nationalizing of the auto industry, the cultivation of dependence on government, privileges to the leaders but not the people, broke governments not paying pensioners, everyone going to university and becoming “engineers” becasue they were not skilled enough to be called anything else, “research” where the government agenda dictats the results, government health care not having medicines, equipment, facilities because of lack of funds—people in a perpetual state of not believing what their government says and knowing that the “Pravda” (state newspaper) which means truth was anything but…
Oh wait, was I talking about Russia or us?
James, you know not of what you speak. Collectivism has a beginning and the beginning is us.

Editor
December 6, 2012 9:38 pm

Do you realize there are people getting their first driver’s licenses who have never known global warming?

December 6, 2012 9:45 pm

An extra dose of Karl Popper for good measure: http://guscost.com/2012/12/06/falsifiability/

RB
December 6, 2012 9:49 pm

“I’m a warmist????? Really???? I love it when people make assumptions based on no real evidence what-so-ever.”
Ah, so you ARE a warmist, then 🙂

Stephanie Clague
December 6, 2012 9:49 pm

Its a very good life for the green taliban/regime stooge delegates, travel round the world expenses paid and able to feel important saving the planet. It must be a boost to the ego of these people, of course they are not going to welcome anyone or anything that pollutes the purity of their cause or threatens their carefully fabricated self importance and nurtured standing as champions of the planet. Say the right words and believe/repeat the correct slogans, and even if they sometimes have doubts the mechanism to suppress individual doubt is self interest and you can always rely on that.
The Soviet bloc pretend nations had tens of thousands of these self trained self censoring unthinking stooges hanging around fake parliaments and fake trade unions and fake peace conferences. It was a major industry back in the USSR, learn the right tricks and you got extra everything when that little extra meant a great deal, one step up from the average nobody and all you had to do was learn the script. If there is one defining characteristic that the participants in these travelling circuses share it is a willingness to say and believe whatever is required to keep their circus funded and on the road. Just a hop skip and jump to a new USSR.

DirkH
December 6, 2012 9:59 pm

alan says:
December 6, 2012 at 8:09 pm
“The man himself, speaking truth to power!”
Alan, could you explain what you mean with the words “Climate denial”?

Robber
December 6, 2012 9:59 pm

Just amazing the preliminary reports that are emerging from another 2 weeks of UN negotiations in Doha. They really are making fantastic progress/sarc – just requires a couple of years of further meetings. For example: Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention
http://www3.unog.ch/dohaclimatechange/sites/default/files/FCCC_AWGLCA_2012_L.0004_ENG.pdf
Recalling the principles, provisions and commitments set forth in the Convention, in particular its Articles 2, 3 and 4,
Also recalling decisions 1/CP.13, 1/CP.16, 1/CP.17 and 2/CP.17,
1. Decides that Parties will urgently work towards the deep reduction in global greenhouse gas emissions required to hold the increase in global average temperature below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and to attain a global peaking of global greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible, consistent with science and as documented in the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, reaffirming that the time frame for peaking will be longer in developing countries;
2. Also decides that Parties’ efforts should be undertaken on the basis of equity and common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities, and the provision of finance, technology transfer and capacity-building to developing countries in order to support their mitigation and adaptation actions under the Convention, and take into account the imperatives of equitable access to sustainable development, the survival of countries and protecting the integrity of Mother Earth;
Draft decision text on key finance issues.
Acknowledging the efforts in the delivery of fast-start finance by developed country Parties to fulfill their collective commitment of USD 30 billion and calling for its full disbursement in an expedite manner,
Reaffirming that developed country Parties commit, in the context of meaningful mitigation actions and transparency on implementation, to a goal of mobilizing jointly USD 100 billion per year by 2020 to address the needs of developing countries, and that funds provided to developing country Parties may come from a wide variety of sources, public and private, bilateral and multilateral, including alternative sources;
1. Decides to continue the work programme on long-term finance during 2013 to contribute to the ongoing efforts to scale up mobilization of climate finance to USD 100 billion per year by 2020. The work programme will also consider how to enhance enabling environments and policy frameworks to facilitate the mobilization and effective deployment of climate finance in developing countries. The work programme will report to the Conference of the Parties at its nineteenth session;
2. Stresses the need for continued cooperation and dialogue on long-term finance, and in this regard looks forward to the implementation of the work programme of the Standing Committee, including the creation of a climate finance forum that will enable all Parties and stakeholders to continue the practical interchange of ideas initiated in the work programme on long-term finance, with a view to promoting the scaling-up of climate finance through 2020;
3. Acknowledges the pledges and announcements made by several developed country Parties on the continuation of climate finance post 2012, urging all developed country Parties to make firm commitments to provide scaled up climate finance beyond 2012, noting that Parties will continue to make efforts to enhance enabling environments;
4. Invites developed country Parties to submit, by the nineteenth session of the Conference of the Parties, their viable pathways for mobilizing and scaling up the provision of climate finance from 2012 levels to at least USD 100 billion per year by 2020;
Further draft decisions
http://unfccc.int/files/documentation/submissions_from_parties/adp/application/pdf/draftadp36dec1830.pdf
Recalling decision 1/CP.17, which recognized that climate change presents an urgent and potentially irreversible threat to human societies and the planet and thus requires to be urgently addressed by all Parties, and acknowledged that the global nature of climate change calls for the widest possible cooperation by all countries and their participation in effective and appropriate international response, with a view to accelerating the reduction of global greenhouse gas emissions, noted with grave concern the significant gap between the aggregate effect of Parties’ mitigation pledges in terms of global annual emissions reductions of greenhouse gases by 2020 and aggregate emission pathways consistent with having a likely chance of holding the increase in global average temperature below 2°C or 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, and recognized that fulfilling the ultimate objective of the Convention will require strengthening of the multilateral, rules-based regime under the Convention,
Determined to adopt a protocol, another legal instrument or an agreed outcome with legal force under the Convention applicable to all Parties (hereinafter referred to as “the 2015 agreement”) at its twenty-first session, due to be held from Wednesday 2 December to Sunday, 13 December 2015, and for it to come into effect and be implemented from 2020;
So we are all very very busy, and with only two more years of meetings/junkets and $100 billion or so we will save the planet.
And as for Kyoto:
Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol
http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2012/awg17/eng/l03r01.pdf
It seems there is only Australia and New Zealand and the EU left:
In a communication dated 10 December 2010, Japan indicated that it does not have any intention to be under obligation of the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol after 2012.
15 In a communication dated 8 December 2010 that was received by the secretariat on 9 December 2010, the Russian Federation indicated that it does not intend to assume a quantitative emission limitation or reduction commitment for the second commitment period.
Publisher’s notes:
a On 15 December 2011, the Depositary received written notification of Canada’s withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol. This action will become effective for Canada on 15 December 2012.

pwl
December 6, 2012 10:03 pm

Bravo Mr. Monckton!

Dave Broad
December 6, 2012 10:10 pm

There is political spin being pushed around the IPCC at the moment. There seems to be an initiative to reposition the IPCC as “the voice of reason” Hence some alarmist/warmist individuals are starting to claim the IPCC have underestimated the effects of AGW, & generally criticizing the IPCC as being too soft. This is the narrative we will be hearing over the next few months. It’s to try & influence public opinion that the IPCC is a more conservative body than it actually is. All politics. Certainly does not mean the IPCC has changed in the slightest. O/T I know, but I just wanted people to be aware of this change in the warmists narrative.

Geoff Sherrington
December 6, 2012 10:31 pm

Having had the pleasure of a short private meeting with Lord Monckton (and I do not hesitate to use the title of Lord) I can assure you that this is a brilliant mind. Criticise this wonderful man at your peril. Leadership by example is scarce and must be treasured.

Steve Vandorne
December 6, 2012 10:53 pm

“In the 16 years we have been coming to these conferences, there has been no global warming,”
Fantastic!

Editor
December 6, 2012 11:04 pm

James Abbott says:
December 6, 2012 at 4:25 pm

Why does the climate skeptic community hold up Monckton as a hero ?

Because he’s smart and funny and delightfully eccentric even when he is wrong, and he roasts you guys chestnuts on a regular basis

They should have let him chunter on at the conference because he is a reliable source of hyperbole, with the occasional barking nugget thrown in.
If he had said there had been a temperature standstill for about the last 10 years he would have sounded more credible, but he cannot help himself.

Well, since there has been no statistically significant change in the temperature in 16 years, he told the truth … can’t get more credible than that.

The Clerk of the Parliaments had to write to Monckton in July 2011 (again) to tell him to stop claiming he was a member of the House of Lords.

Monckton, or more accurately Monckton’s lawyers, and the Clerk have a difference of opinion. Life is like that. See here for a detailed discussion of the issues.

This is man who claimed in 2009 that
“They (all those concerned about climate change) are about to impose a communist world government on the world”

Gosh, and then this week Christiana Figueres, the UN Climate Queen was quoted as follows:

Christiana Figueres, who leads the United Nations negotiations to cut greenhouse gas emissions, described the climate change she seeks as a world-encompassing “revolution” engineered by “centralized” governments.
“We are inspiring government, private sector, and civil society to [make] the biggest transformation that they have ever undertaken,”

In Doha, she said

“What is occurring here, not just in Doha, but in the whole climate change process is the complete transformation of the economic structure of the world.”

Thanks, James, but I’ll pass on the total transformation, the “revolution” that Christiana is looking towards. It may not be a “communist world government” she is talking about, but as the self-described “daughter of a revolutionary”, I can assure you she’s not pushing for more democracy and capitalism.
w.

nc
December 6, 2012 11:10 pm

James Abbott why don’t you debate Lord Monckton, in fact why don’t all you “warmists” take him on at once. Wait, I will be right back, ran out of popcorn.

Louis
December 6, 2012 11:13 pm

Well done Mr. Monckton for making a mockery of a sham. But be careful. Speaking truth to power has been known to get a Lord crucified.

gbaikie
December 6, 2012 11:15 pm

Monckton committed the sin of disturbing their warm fuzzy feeling about the end of the world.

AndyG55
December 6, 2012 11:16 pm

Alan,
That clip is obviously intended to be mocking Lord Monckton for dressing like an arab…..
(its all they have)…….
but notice..
1. He was NOT dressed as one when he delivered his short speech.
2. It is considered GOOD FORM to dress in the local clothing.
Many LEADERS do it at heads of giovernment meetings.

Paul Westhaver
December 6, 2012 11:17 pm

Were it not for Lord Monckton, I would not have known about the UN conference in Doha. So, the UN is still doing these? I thought it all went haywire after Climategate and the Copenhagen fiasco.
Oh Well. Three cheers for Monckton, he is a riot!!!!

AndyG55
December 6, 2012 11:18 pm

James says.
“They should have let him chunter on at the conference”
They would NOT DARE !!!
They DID NOT DARE !!!
Too much reality for them !

Matt
December 6, 2012 11:30 pm

Please-please don’t tell me you cannot perfectly see why that happened. What was he doing there? You get evicted like that from any townhall meeting for that, EVEN without mentioning that there has been no global warming for 16 years.

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